dublin under water!!

**dec11** · 10-24-2011, 07:34 PM

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1025/wea...s_tuesday.html

(watch the players)

my backyard was immersed and water was gradually creeping up towards the door, thankfully it stopped raining just on time!!!

businesses, homes and shopping centres are flooded and whole streets are rivers of floating cars!

never saw anything like it and more heavy rain is to hit in the early hours, i think im now going outside to lift up manhole covers in the yard

**Shol'va** · 10-24-2011, 07:49 PM

Weird weather patterns we been having lately My State is having droughts and Your city is flooding in Ireland. Hopefully you have flood insurance on the home.

**dec11** · 10-24-2011, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Shol'va

Weird weather patterns we been having lately My State is having droughts and Your city is flooding in Ireland. Hopefully you have flood insurance on the home.

we should be safe, we're just at the foot of the dublin mountains so are a few metres up from those flooded areas. the garden had me worried, i'd dug it all up a few weeks back and stoned it id say prob 8" deep and leaving an inch between the top and the paving, the water was so high i couldnt see the stones!!! it was beginning to ebb up over the paving just before the rain stopped, thank god.

we had over the month average in just 10hrs, ive never seen consistent torrential rain like that in my life

**dec11** · 10-24-2011, 08:08 PM

thats not even the half of it, theres pics on facebook showing a van in one area, almost completely submerged and cars floating down what are roads and ppl out on canoes on city streets!! its fookin chaos

**Bulkn** · 10-24-2011, 08:11 PM

A friend on facebook posted footage of water spraying through the doors of a shopping centre, crazy!!!

**Times Roman** · 10-25-2011, 05:17 AM

Dec,

Sounds like you are in serious need of a dyke!

....anyone?

**lovbyts** · 10-25-2011, 05:25 AM

Originally Posted by Times Roman

Dec,

Sounds like you are in serious need of a dyke!

....anyone?

DSM will be along soon enough.

Lots of flooding going on all over. Look at Thailand. 2 years ago it was Philippines. Remember our lifetime is a blink in the eye as far as weather patterns and cycles are concerned. We have no idea what is really normal.

Stay dry and safe. Prepare for the worse now and start getting anything valuable off the floor that can be damaged by water before it's to late.

**Times Roman** · 10-25-2011, 05:54 AM

We had floods back in 91 at my house. Man, I HATE filling sandbags!

**dec11** · 10-25-2011, 10:19 AM

much better footage of the scale of the flooding:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAozRKfTXjQ

**DanB** · 10-25-2011, 01:36 PM

see the pics in the star today?heard a garda was killed in the canal

**DanB** · 10-25-2011, 01:37 PM

global warming hmmm i understand concept of it but definately very misleading name, all it does over here is make it rain more

**scorpion62** · 10-25-2011, 01:42 PM

Dec they take about the o zone and things getting warmer but Scotland and Ireland are just getting wetter and the winters are just fvcking
un believable

**DanB** · 10-25-2011, 01:50 PM

i spent winter last year in scotland -15 c and snowed solid for 3 months

**dec11** · 10-25-2011, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by scorpion62

Dec they take about the o zone and things getting warmer but Scotland and Ireland are just getting wetter and the winters are just fvcking
un believable

yet, too true mate