Weather

[Farrandeelin]

Snowing away here at the min!

[EC Unique]

Snowing like fook here!

[orangeman]

forecasters got it right again.


There might not be a pile of ball this weekend.

[armaghniac]

It will be dry on Sunday, the likes of Drogheda might be OK.

[muppet]

Man swims on Oliver Plunkett Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHNQ8dvvhaA

[laoislad]

Was stopped at traffic lights a few minutes ago and saw a stop sign pole nearly decapitate a fella.
The whole thing just lifted from the ground and fell and missed him by inches.
Some wind out there.

[Milltown Row2]

Has not stopped raining all day here in East Antrim, It's a shit hole (Larne) most days of the week but I'm going to need a canoe to get home

[AZOffaly]

There was a seal on a street in Cork apparently. Swam up no bother.

[muppet]

There was a seal on a street in Cork apparently. Swam up no bother.

He has the same look I usually have the day after an All-Ireland Final.

[AZOffaly]

Apparently that's the Lee, rather than a street. Mind you, be no bother to hop out through that fence now.

[laoislad]

Apparently that's the Lee, rather than a street. Mind you, be no bother to hop out through that fence now.

They would want to seal up them fences alright....

[AZOffaly]

I think I'd be moving that car if I owned it as well.

[Last Man]

Man swims on Oliver Plunkett Street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHNQ8dvvhaA

He wouldnt want to be biting his nails after swimming in that fs!

[seafoid]

I think this is just the start of global warming.

If we get flooding like this say once every 2 years insurers won't bother providing cover for
important parts of Cork, Galway and Limerick.

Christchurch in NZ had a massive earthquake a few years ago.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YX2pWcwnEvE/UPxtOkOMGaI/AAAAAAAABRM/xjFZKx16SlM/s1600/cathedral-before-after.jpg
http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/02/24/1226011/315116-christchurch-lyttleton-earthquake.jpg

Houses that were in previously desirable areas had to be abandoned.
Insurance companies refused to cover risks because the chance of losing money was too high.

http://afflictor.com/tag/henry-petroski/
"The engineer, like the insurance agent, is hampered by the fact that his skill depends on the earth behaving in the future as it has in the past. As Petroski writes,
Since it is future failure that is at issue, the only sure way to test our hypotheses about its nature and magnitude is to look backward at failures that have occurred historically. Indeed, we predict that the probability of occurrence for a certain event, such as a hundred-year storm, is such and such a percentage, because all other things being equal, that has been the actual experience contained in the historical meteorological record.
That record, however, is now shattered. In the course of Petroski's lifetime, and all of ours, we've left behind the Holocene, the ten-thousand-year period of benign climatic stability that marked the rise of human civilization. We've raised the global temperature about a degree so far, but a better way of thinking about it is: we've amped up the amount of energy trapped in our narrow envelope of atmosphere, and hence every process that feeds off that energy is now accelerating. For instance, this piece of simple physics: warm air holds more water vapor than cold. Already we've increased moisture in the atmosphere by about 4 percent on average, thus increasing the danger both of drought, because heat is evaporating more surface water, and of flood, because evaporated water must eventually come down as rain. And those loaded dice are doing great damage. "


It's not good news.

[Billys Boots]

It'll be an interesting world without insurance (as we know it).