The weather thread

Flash of lightning and then a huge roar of thunder just here. Only drizzling but I expect it to crack and deluge soon.

johnfás wrote:

Flash of lightning and then a huge roar of thunder just here. Only drizzling but I expect it to crack and deluge soon.

Where is it heading? Nice morning here so far after the ark-building inspiration that yesterday's weather emitted.




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yeeehawww!

The deluge has just stopped here and it's starting to clear over the mountains...
...but we're not falling for that.

Husband gone to move animals because we're expecting it to be pretty bad here today. The site where we almost built our house is flooded and we're generally in a hollow here and there's a river right beside us. In the old days, before there was work done on the river, a flash flood (maybe ten years ago) saw the husband sailing down to a field in a plastic water trough with a shovel for an oar to check on cattle. Things have improved since then, though. Our neighbour here gets flooded out in his old house at least once a year. Maybe twice this year by the looks of things...

Kate P wrote:

The deluge has just stopped here and it's starting to clear over the mountains...
...but we're not falling for that.

Husband gone to move animals because we're expecting it to be pretty bad here today. The site where we almost built our house is flooded and we're generally in a hollow here and there's a river right beside us. In the old days, before there was work done on the river, a flash flood (maybe ten years ago) saw the husband sailing down to a field in a plastic water trough with a shovel for an oar to check on cattle. Things have improved since then, though. Our neighbour here gets flooded out in his old house at least once a year. Maybe twice this year by the looks of things...

Two inches of water are standing on the gravel paths and there is a small lake in the meadow across the river. The river is only high, rather than in flood, but it is rich dark red-brown with sediment, and is making a deafening tearing sound as it goes over the weir. In the last few months hundreds of tons of top soil must have washed down the river.

The mountains have vanished, more torrential rain.

Sorry to hear about the latest deluge. Is it expected to be as bad as last weekend?

It certainly isn't as bad in Dublin as it was last weekend. It is incessantly raining but not with the veracity of last week.

Reports from the rest of the country?

After the rain - the sun has come out.

johnfás wrote:

It certainly isn't as bad in Dublin as it was last weekend. It is incessantly raining but not with the veracity of last week.

Reports from the rest of the country?

Ferocity?

Slim Buddha wrote:

johnfás wrote:

It certainly isn't as bad in Dublin as it was last weekend. It is incessantly raining but not with the veracity of last week.

Reports from the rest of the country?

Ferocity?

I can attest to the veracity of that ferocity

I got hit bad in work last weekend.
http://picasaweb.google.com/DonabateCarftMarket/AugustFlood
thats me wading about in the water.
I'm not going in this weekend to see.
Everything is wet anyways so it wont make much difference.

Nice pics Johnny Bluestar - was your stock fecked?

Auditor #9 wrote:

Nice pics Johnny Bluestar - was your stock fecked?

It looks like bleedin' weetabix.....

Oh dear Johnny - bad luck - I feel for you.

This is the lane beside my inlaws, which is under four feet of water. We almost built our house down there. You can just about see a house in between the trees in the mid background of the pic. The owner, who is in his sixties, was removed by boat to safety when the Civil Defence and Fire Brigade arrived. People who live further down are in a cul de sac and are literally stranded until the water goes down. ANd the signs aren't good for tonight. Raining away here again though not so heavily just yet.

The 'stream' to the right is a flooded drain.

Johnny Keogh wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Nice pics Johnny Bluestar - was your stock fecked?

It looks like bleedin' weetabix.....

jesus Hiker that looks like a nightmare. Have you enough good stuff to keep the business going ?

You can see the current as the water moves from the field on the right to the field on the left. The car had ignored the signs and bollards which you can barely see in the far distance at the bottom of the bridge and then through the better of its rashness and turned back. As the water flows into the field on the right, it joins the flood posted in teh image above onto the lane. Field on the right in second pic is the other side of the hedge in pic number one.

Once again Monster Hall has remained dry. Took a wander down to the far end of the Cookie Compound down by the river... can horses swim?

Kate that's kind of very serious there. Did ye experience something like that in the past or is this new?

Great Scott Kate, ye must have had a deluge. This rain is feckin insane.

My father-in-law has been here for 65 years and has never seen floods like this, though it's a low-lying area. We often have big puddles across the end of our avenue because it's quite low but a drain alongside the lawn burst and flooded the avenue and the road and a race across the road which burst joined with it. Our neighbours across the road couldn't get out and I couldn't get in. That has never been seen.

The laneway above has always flooded in winter, and never as badly as this, though if, as was predicted on RTE this evening, the Barrow bursts its banks, that whole area in the first two pics will be a huge swamp. The Barrow, in living memory, has never burst its banks. All the animals have been moved to safety. The rivers near us are all tributaries of the Barrow and the civil defence and firemen don't expect to get to bed tonight.

Last one.

Standing on the pier looking down over the water. The house further down is in a hollow and everything is swamped. And it's lashing rain here again now.

Whatever about the flooding, Kate, are you sure you want all of MN seeing your untrimmed hedges?

It's illegal to trim the bloody hedges, as well you know, because of the birdies nesting. And this has been a particularly growthy spring and summer. I like them and they make good shelter for the sheeps.

Anyway, if the rain ever stops, they'll be full of blackberries before long.

And I believe there were mushrooms to be had in recent days - all washed away now, I suppose.

There weren't all that many mushrooms this year, well not as I had hoped their would be what with the warm wet weather.

I was going for a crude bush joke, but wussed out.