Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:13 pmWTF dont people take the nets off those trampolines and turn them upside down so the lay flat. Every time theres strong winds these things take off, or roll around, causing (massive) damage.Skub wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:10 pm There's a fair bit of damage here. Lots of trees down,some onto folk's houses,walls down,fences down,roof damage and a huge trampoline blowing about the Antrim coast road. Still blowing strong.
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Had a tramampoline in lane one of the M1 in a recent storm. Try moving it on your own when the wind hits the bouncy bit!! We dismantled it, no choice really, using a knife and a lump hammer and chucked it behind the Armco, I think it’s still there!!
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Currently blowing a gale again from the next storm,Hermina.
Getting boring now.
Getting boring now.
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Finally got power back half an hour ago!
And there's still bods without power here in Ireland.
And there's still bods without power here in Ireland.
Blundering about trying not to make too much of a hash of things.
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Good grief! Hope your freezer wasn't full!Lutin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:02 pm Finally got power back half an hour ago!
And there's still bods without power here in Ireland.
That's unforgiveable/incompetent for them to be so tardy. What on earth did they need to do that takes so long?
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Reconnect about 750,000 customers. Takes a while.Count Steer wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:22 pmGood grief! Hope your freezer wasn't full!Lutin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:02 pm Finally got power back half an hour ago!
And there's still bods without power here in Ireland.
That's unforgiveable/incompetent for them to be so tardy. What on earth did they need to do that takes so long?
Fortunately the freezers weren't full, but we lost some stuff. Nothing to be heartbroken over though.
Still having fun switching things on and off.

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Blundering about trying not to make too much of a hash of things.
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Welcome back to 2025.Lutin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:02 pm Finally got power back half an hour ago!
And there's still bods without power here in Ireland.

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Are they reconnecting them one at a time?Lutin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:04 pmReconnect about 750,000 customers. Takes a while.Count Steer wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:22 pmGood grief! Hope your freezer wasn't full!Lutin wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 5:02 pm Finally got power back half an hour ago!
And there's still bods without power here in Ireland.
That's unforgiveable/incompetent for them to be so tardy. What on earth did they need to do that takes so long?
Fortunately the freezers weren't full, but we lost some stuff. Nothing to be heartbroken over though.
Still having fun switching things on and off.![]()

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The one death that I know of from that storm was my mates brother whilst on his way to work, absolutely gutted for them. Shit times.
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A young lad from Donegall was trying to get home that Friday,but his normal route was blocked by fallen trees,so he phoned his dad and he guided him a different way. While he was driving a tree fell on his car and killed him.wull wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 7:33 pm The one death that I know of from that storm was my mates brother whilst on his way to work, absolutely gutted for them. Shit times.
I can't imagine how that father feels.
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Surely this should be in the jokes thread? :
An article full of half truths and bias complaining the Daily Fail is biased and not true?
"The summer of 2022 was not even as hot as 1976, which rather destroys the narrative"
Guess all them records which were broken, including the UKs first ever record of >40°C weather, don't count as unprecedented? Breaking a record is literally what unprecedented means?
An article full of half truths and bias complaining the Daily Fail is biased and not true?

"The summer of 2022 was not even as hot as 1976, which rather destroys the narrative"
Guess all them records which were broken, including the UKs first ever record of >40°C weather, don't count as unprecedented? Breaking a record is literally what unprecedented means?

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Nothing was as hot as the Summer of 76 maaaan.Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:20 am Surely this should be in the jokes thread? :
An article full of half truths and bias complaining the Daily Fail is biased and not true?
"The summer of 2022 was not even as hot as 1976, which rather destroys the narrative"
Guess all them records which were broken, including the UKs first ever record of >40°C weather, don't count as unprecedented? Breaking a record is literally what unprecedented means?![]()
You had to be there.

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I was just floating about in ma dads baw sack back thenSkub wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 11:00 amNothing was as hot as the Summer of 76 maaaan.Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:20 am Surely this should be in the jokes thread? :
An article full of half truths and bias complaining the Daily Fail is biased and not true?
"The summer of 2022 was not even as hot as 1976, which rather destroys the narrative"
Guess all them records which were broken, including the UKs first ever record of >40°C weather, don't count as unprecedented? Breaking a record is literally what unprecedented means?![]()
You had to be there.![]()
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I was spending a fortune making a bawbag of a perfectly good Z1.


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That's rather unfortunate looking....Skub wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 1:20 pm I was spending a fortune making a bawbag of a perfectly good Z1.![]()
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The summer of 1976 was one of those mythical things that gets more rosy-hued with every passing year. I can remember that the extended heatwave lasted from June all the way through to the end of August. It wasn't so much the temperatures but the fact that it was wall to wall sunshine and no rain for such an extended period. The summer of 2022 was a lot hotter, but had nothing like the duration.
I remember going to Portmeirion in Wales a year or so later and seeing a plaque in honour of the summer of 1976. The plaque just had the year and one word - 'Nonesuch'.
But one summer that appears to have crept under the radar was 1995. That was a corker, with hot sunny weather from late April through to mid September.
I remember going to Portmeirion in Wales a year or so later and seeing a plaque in honour of the summer of 1976. The plaque just had the year and one word - 'Nonesuch'.
But one summer that appears to have crept under the radar was 1995. That was a corker, with hot sunny weather from late April through to mid September.
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