QuoteFairly heavy snow in Kerry now, I'd say it'll carry on for the morning at least.
Fairly heavy snow in Kerry now, I'd say it'll carry on for the morning at least.
Back with a bang,anybody in Dublin City centre to confirm driving conditions?
(AA roadwatch seems to be the same report every day)
Main roads around the city are pretty clear. Traffic is a bit all over the place as you might expect. The snow has stopped again for the moment at least. RTE live updates have been pretty good http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1221/weather.html
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It took me 2 hours last night to get from Georges St to Ranelagh bridge,a journey of about 1 mile
Tell me about it. I got on a bus on Geroge's St at 5 and only got to Tallaght at 7.40. Lesson 1. I should have got the Luas. Thank God I had a decent book. Roads have deteriorated a lot in the last few hours, it's going to be mental this eveining again. I'm out of here at 4 and straight down to the Luas.
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Took me 40 minutes to get home yesterday. That's compared to a typical of - ooh, 40 minutes. I love the DART!
8 inches and counting in South Dublin at the moment. And it's the nicest snow I've ever seen - soft, deep and clean. Tis only lovely out.
It is lovely snow. No matter how annoying the travel and slipping around is I still smile when I look out the window at the winter wonderland outside, it's once in a generation type stuff (hopefully).
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Bah humbug,I hate snow.
Slight delays today but got from Dun Laoghaire to Kilcock in 2 hours. It could normally take an hour and a half. Fair dues to Iarnród Éireann though. I don't think I'll be seeing the mother for a few days.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Made it down today. Living high up, you expect the roads to be bad, but it's a joke how bad the national primary routes are. Yer man from the NRA is like Comical Ali with all the crap about enough salt to keep the main roads open - my route is N/M11, M50 and N81 and none of them were what I'd call clear. Any snow and they'll be fecked again (the N81 is particularly bad - not even tarmac tracks). If this is the best they can do, supposedly with better controls and coordination this winter, they might as well admit defeat and legislate for winter tryes from November to Feb.
WTF is going on that the NRA isn't sourcing salt from the North instead of the med? More short termism - cost might be significantly cheaper for the salt, but whats been the cost of the last few weeks disruption to the economy?
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
Still lovely in East Cork.
Last edited by dahamsta; 22/12/2010 at 5:21 PM.
just out of curiousity, we live on an island, why can't sand from our beaches be used to grit the roads? we were discussing this in work and none of us could come up with an answer
Lashing down again.
View from my balcony about 5 minutes ago. No snow, just day after day of -5 or -6 leaving everywhere frozen. (If this file is too big for the site, feel free to edit/chop/magic it.)
It's corrosive and would damage cars, I do alot of sea fishing and after every trip you have to wash your gear or else it will be ruined.
MOT
It's not the sand but the salt residue that's corrosive - the same salt they are spreading on the roads out of the salt spreaders / gritters.
Cars these days are galvanised before being painted and withstand much more than the old UK imports you might remember of the 1980s that quickly being rust buckets. There is a company in Birr (not to be confused with Burrrrr, it's freezing) called Romaquip who are leaders in speading technology. They produced 150 vehicles in the last three years for the UK Highway Services, Our guys bought around 20, so the only reason we don't have the Roads clear is because of Cash. When the snow has melted I'd be keen to know how much it would have cost to keep roads clear against how much the Government lost in tax revenue, productivity and VAT etc.
They won't be able to tell you that.
I spent all of September trying to get my boss to approve a form that I was designing that takes the current a3 folded form all onto a a4 that we would print in-house and would envelope in our enveloping machine. I was over-ruled because of the cost of the a4 paper and laser cartridge. Of course they didn't answer my query as to the cost of the staff to hand envelope.
I moved department and everyday for the last 2 weeks that section has had all staff labeling the old form and hand folding into envelopes and they are still not finished.
It warms the cockles to see them.
Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that there is no way that the govt will be able to or will want to quantify the true cost.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
I'm not sure it is the same salt, but regardless there isn't enough salt in beach sand to be that much more effective than sand.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
It would be utterly pointless. It wouldn't be as good, and we have the biggest salt mine in Europe in Carrickfergus. Trouble is it has been its been 15-20 below in parts. It was -10 when I was driving through Belfast on Tuesday morning. No practical amount of salt will melt that. Nothing will unless we start pouring pure alcohol or something on the roads.
We're just going to have to grin and bear it for a few more days until it melts. Other countries cope with months of this. A few days won't kill us.
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