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[SouthOfThe Bann]

Anyone any issues with Internet still not back?

[Harold Disgracey]

I have to say I found the drive back from Galway last night through numerous towns and villages in complete darkness quite disconcerting. Our electric came back on before I got home last night but went off again for a while today.

[Olly]

Does anyone else thing Kate Bush was right about the cloudbursting. There's a school of thought out there that the government is making storms and stuff more often to keep people in line, like the covid virus. I think there wasn't actually a storm recently but they made the clouds blowier on purpose and made a few tramploines and sheds fly into the air, maybe they have a trampoline franchise on the go too,

[Tony Baloney]

Anyone any issues with Internet still not back?

Phone line is down at our house so will be no WiFi for the foreseeable and working off an intermittent H+ mobile signal. As you can imagine the teenagers in the house are loving it  . According to BT it will be next Fri before it is resolved.

[SaffronSports]

Does anyone else thing Kate Bush was right about the cloudbursting. There's a school of thought out there that the government is making storms and stuff more often to keep people in line, like the covid virus. I think there wasn't actually a storm recently but they made the clouds blowier on purpose and made a few tramploines and sheds fly into the air, maybe they have a trampoline franchise on the go too,

Who let Donald Trump on the board?

[armaghniac]

There was a club in the midlands on RTÉ which had a generator for its floodlights and it had wired it into the clubhouse and they were providing showers, hot food, phone charging etc.
This is a useful model and the GAA should work with authorities to promote this idea as a general concept for an emergency.

[Nanderson]

There was a club in the midlands on RTÉ which had a generator for its floodlights and it had wired it into the clubhouse and they were providing showers, hot food, phone charging etc.
This is a useful model and the GAA should work with authorities to promote this idea as a general concept for an emergency.

A club in Down was being used for people to call in and use as shelter for phone charging, showers, water etc. My own club had their power off but they have a large diesel generator for the floodlit pitch. Makes me wonder why they didn't spend a bit of extra money to get the clubhouse itself wired into it for emergencies

[giveherlong]

There was a club in the midlands on RTÉ which had a generator for its floodlights and it had wired it into the clubhouse and they were providing showers, hot food, phone charging etc.
This is a useful model and the GAA should work with authorities to promote this idea as a general concept for an emergency.

A club in Down was being used for people to call in and use as shelter for phone charging, showers, water etc. My own club had their power off but they have a large diesel generator for the floodlit pitch. Makes me wonder why they didn't spend a bit of extra money to get the clubhouse itself wired into it for emergencies

Any electrician worth his salt would have that wired into the clubrooms in an hour

[93-DY-SAM]

Many people on the board still without power?

[Substandard]

Many people on the board still without power?

Here.  An absolute dose, having to draw water for cattle indoors, then home with a genny but limited enough what can be done with it.  Filling the cistern of the toilet out of 5 gallon drums.
I'll never complain about snow again...

[93-DY-SAM]

Many people on the board still without power?

Here.  An absolute dose, having to draw water for cattle indoors, then home with a genny but limited enough what can be done with it.  Filling the cistern of the toilet out of 5 gallon drums.
I'll never complain about snow again...

We've no electric and are running of a genny as well. Happy to have it. But f**k me to have no water as well and trying to manage cattle. That's rough. Any idea when you'll even get power back? Seems like the governments on both sides of the border making a f**k up of managing this. Mehole was some **** earlier stirring his hot cuppa tae and telling that lady in Roscommon to ring a number.

[Tony Baloney]

Many people on the board still without power?

Here.  An absolute dose, having to draw water for cattle indoors, then home with a genny but limited enough what can be done with it.  Filling the cistern of the toilet out of 5 gallon drums.
I'll never complain about snow again...

We've no electric and are running of a genny as well. Happy to have it. But f**k me to have no water as well and trying to manage cattle. That's rough. Any idea when you'll even get power back? Seems like the governments on both sides of the border making a f**k up of managing this. Mehole was some **** earlier stirring his hot cuppa tae and telling that lady in Roscommon to ring a number.

What do you want the government to do? ESB/NIE/BT can't be expected to carry engineers on the off chance of a once in a lifetime storm so everyone can have their power and phone back on by the next day.

[Substandard]

No, I fully appreciate they are flat out, I've a few cousins that work on networks,  I don't envy them.  It is what it is, it's better to sit down and laugh than sit down and cry.
I do know a few neighbours who wanted to knock trees they felt were a danger were told they'd be fined if they did.  All fine and dandy now, though.

[93-DY-SAM]

Many people on the board still without power?

Here.  An absolute dose, having to draw water for cattle indoors, then home with a genny but limited enough what can be done with it.  Filling the cistern of the toilet out of 5 gallon drums.
I'll never complain about snow again...

We've no electric and are running of a genny as well. Happy to have it. But f**k me to have no water as well and trying to manage cattle. That's rough. Any idea when you'll even get power back? Seems like the governments on both sides of the border making a f**k up of managing this. Mehole was some **** earlier stirring his hot cuppa tae and telling that lady in Roscommon to ring a number.

What do you want the government to do? ESB/NIE/BT can't be expected to carry engineers on the off chance of a once in a lifetime storm so everyone can have their power and phone back on by the next day.

What a silly comment.

What I want them to do and what they should have done was plan. This was known a week out. In fact, a plan should be ready to go before and after major events like this anyway. They should have had some extra crews already here before the storm knowing they could get to work straight away if needed rather than 3 or 4 days later. And have others where available on standby to come at very short notice depending on the scale of things. It's fairly obvious with events like this that governments do the bare basics and then make it up as they go along.

In addition, trees growing near electric lines higher than the line should be topped or taken down so they don't take the line with them. Most of the power was taken out by falling trees. This could be prevented but a good maintenance plan. It would be much cheaper to implement than the expense of the clean-up. Prevention is better than cure. But jaysus no, we dare not cut a branch of a tree!!!

[Armagh18]

No, I fully appreciate they are flat out, I've a few cousins that work on networks,  I don't envy them.  It is what it is, it's better to sit down and laugh than sit down and cry.
I do know a few neighbours who wanted to knock trees they felt were a danger were told they'd be fined if they did.  All fine and dandy now, though.

Thats mad, was talking to a fella the other day who was told the opposite, clear those trees or if you don't and they do harm, you'll be getting the bill..