It says on RTE that a government emergency response committee are trying to decide whether to mobilise the army to help people. Sure why the fuck wouldn’t they? What else do they be doing other than going round with cash vans and stopping at filling stations for pastries?
The council will have to away now and stockpile shit loads of grit, gritters, and fucking snow plows at a massive cost to the tax payer. Then in two years time people will complaining about the cost of storing them. I hate people.
Who will protect us from zee Germans
I’m shipping out of Dublin today, 10 single train ticket to Colbert Station, Limerick and back to civilisation. I haven’t moved the car since New Year’s Eve and have gone stir crazy in this little ski lodge. The backwardness of Dublin civic authorities has finally got to me.
I believe the Newry Retailers Association has gritted the road as far down as Dundalk.
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I believe the Newry Retailers Association has gritted the road as far down as Dundalk.[/quote]
The civil servants who couldnt make it to work today will be pleased with that…
[quote=“Julio Geordio”]Who will protect us from zee Germans[/quote]I will.http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/army-ranger-4.jpg
Are you the sniper that shot the dog for MBB from nigh on 76 fields away?
RTE have minute-by-minute coverage of the weather on their website. Class 
Shermin will be thrilled if he reads the update around 11am about Dublin Port running as usual, without delays, today.
[quote=“Julio Geordio”]Are you the sniper that shot the dog for MBB from nigh on 76 fields away?[/quote]Hey,it’s business!
[quote=“SHANNONSIDER**”]I’m shipping out of Dublin today, 10 single train ticket to Colbert Station, Limerick and back to civilisation. I haven’t moved the car since New Year’s Eve and have gone stir crazy in this little ski lodge. The backwardness of Dublin civic authorities has finally got to me.
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I will meet you at the railway hotel for a few “pints”.
[quote=“farmerinthecity”]I agree.
People giving out about the roads in Dublin not being gritted yesterday. The snow fell in the middle of the day. People immediately all decided to get out of the city. Where were the grit trucks meant to go?[/quote]
I heard they were asked by Dublin Bus to grit the roads before the snowfall, which was predicted 2 days before. I’m not sure if this would have worked, not well up on the ol gritting thing, but if it was a case that it does work, then surely they have genuine gripes?
[quote=“Bandage”]RTE have minute-by-minute coverage of the weather on their website. Class
Shermin will be thrilled if he reads the update around 11am about Dublin Port running as usual, without delays, today.[/quote]
for those missing out
10.52: Grocers are reporting a rise in demand for salt as home owners try to grit their own driveways.
11.45: You can send your snow and ice photos to newsonline@rte.ie
You know that fella from Donegal who predicts the weather based on nature?
I remember him being featured in some paper about 2 weeks before Christmas and he said we were in for an extremely cold winter and it would be much harsher than recent years. He mentioned something about foxes being hunting around the clock trying to build up stores of food.
I will meet you at the railway hotel for a few “pints”.[/quote]
Grand job. I must say hello to Gary in Fine Wines first, we used to soldier together (c.2000), no one ever jumped the counter while we were on duty.
Throw a can of liden village to Annie Madden too while you’re at it.
[quote=“The Runt”]for those missing out
10.52: Grocers are reporting a rise in demand for salt as home owners try to grit their own driveways.
11.45: You can send your snow and ice photos to newsonline@rte.ie[/quote]
11.58: Motorists in Dublin have been asked to avoid the Kylemore Road. There is a long queue of trucks and buses are trying to get over Labre Hill. One vehicle is stuck on ice and blocking traffic.
11.53: Garda in Thomastown Co Kilkenny say driving conditions are very dangerous in the area. Elsewhere, driving conditions in Wexford town have improved today. The snow is starting to thaw.
11.50: Dublin City Council has said salt stocks are running critically low and that secondary routes and footpaths in the capital would not be gritted.
[quote=“The Runt”]You know that fella from Donegal who predicts the weather based on nature?
I remember him being featured in some paper about 2 weeks before Christmas and he said we were in for an extremely cold winter and it would be much harsher than recent years. He mentioned something about foxes being hunting around the clock trying to build up stores of food.[/quote]
He did indeed alright. Read it in the Metro or somewhere I think. I’d say his driveway is nicely gritted.
[quote=“The Runt”]You know that fella from Donegal who predicts the weather based on nature?
I remember him being featured in some paper about 2 weeks before Christmas and he said we were in for an extremely cold winter and it would be much harsher than recent years. He mentioned something about foxes being hunting around the clock trying to build up stores of food.[/quote]That’s amazing stuff alright,the animals know the score.http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/109/710/549/zcFK1iDiqQJz3gc.jpg
Is she the homeless lady who hangs around the park and station area drinking cans and roaring at bystanders?
Monday, December 28, 2009
DONEGAL POSTMAN Michael Gallagher knew his prediction about a white Christmas would come true when he had to abandon his Christmas Eve deliveries because of snow and ice.
The 60-year-old postman from Glenfin forecast a white Christmas a full fortnight before it actually happened. He did so not by tracking weather fronts or through satellite technology, but by the time-honoured means of observing the signs of nature.
Mr Gallagher based his predictions on the observations of an old woman who said when the Blue Stack mountains were bathed in an orange glow from the winter sun, a prolonged cold snap was on its way.
Cattle and sheep were hungry, the blackbirds were coming very close to the houses and the holly berries were picked clean on the bushes: more signs, Mr Gallagher said, that a white Christmas was imminent.
He said it was just beautiful to wake up on Christmas morning and find that his forecast had come to pass, but the credit belonged to those from previous generations who had passed their weather lore down to him.
Past generations lived by the signs and what was around them, which was nature. They didnt have television or radio to tell them, he said.
Not being a gambling man, Mr Gallagher eschewed the prospects of making a tidy sum if he had bet on a white Christmas, but his successful forecasting will do no harm for sales of his book, Traditional Weather Signs.
Mr Gallagher is forecasting more of the same weather over the new year. I can see it getting even worse, he said.
Michael Gallagher knows the score