Marthanoir
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The wind is really starting to pick up again now, looks like we set for some more fun,
Wind picking up here too, we are soon throwing the ham in the oven (it is boiled but baked will tasted better) since husband didn't feel well yesterday - I'm going down to make some veg, already made bread to eat ham with later if we lose power.
Break out a wee nip of the Tulamore Dew!
Friends in Cork posting on facebook "electricity seems to be becoming something from the past" and another friend "lights flickering here at the rectory..." Here at this Old Rectory (no longer owned by The Church Of Ireland obviously) winds are loud enough I just posted "Here Comes the Storm, Nada, Nada, Here comes the Storm" but so far we have power and internet.
We had a love late Yule Diner (St. Stephan's day feast if you like, since that's my husband's name even thought he wasn't born on the 26th though I think half our friends think he was) he was feeling well enough to eat it and so was I - he picked up something the last week of medical school and is just now getting hungry again.
I made lots of extra potatoes, carrots and parsnips and we have bag full of cooked apples as well as cider ham (prefer apple cider to booze on ham) and home made bread - so if the power goes out we are good to go in terms of food, it is cold enough we wouldn't have to worry about freezer spoilage for days and we have a back up generator just in case.
Hopefully we will not need the chain saw, usually when the trees fall here they are way to big for a personal chain saw anyway; except for the branches, I wonder if our sideways one we haven't been able to get anyone to sort will go down? In leans over the old path to the grave yard and into the next field, but to pull it down properly would require machines and stuff to pull it backwards which no one around here has; thankfully no animals in the field this time of year so the main problems would be fixing the fence.
We shall see - I'll report in as I can..stay warm Marthanoir!
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More than 80-mph winds recorded on Isle of Man; reports of more than 100-mph gusts in Wales are to be verified - @itvnews
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2013-12-21/flood-transport-travel-christmas-weather-rain-wind/
We're still on line, even made it out to a very early morning trip to Lidle's as they opened for an on-sale item, turned out to be a break in the weather and it is back blowing again.
They said the storm was the worst in 15 years, which puts it back with the storm I talk about sometimes when the tree fell across the road and took the power out for four days and nights; we ended up eating versions of the Yule ham for the entire time and I showed my husband how to make olive oil lamps when the regular lamp oil ran out using cotton crochet thread, a pudding dish, pebbles from the garden and a nail (plus the olive oil).
Our local area to Birr was mostly clear but we understand there are a lot of downed trees and power lines blocking traffic, creating problems etc- our neighbors obviously lost at least one more tree and there were a few others by the roadside. One of our nearby towns is said to be without power and I gather there is damage in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Dublin. I expect I'll know more after news in a few minutes here.
Thank you I hadn't heard that yet - I know they were saying it was as bad as the mid-90's one when we moved here - there were two of them actually but with a calm year in the Middle one was Christmas Eve/Day and the other was also St. Stephan's day and I'm not sure which was officially the stronger as both were very bad here.Tomorrows storm is not set to be as bad but my father in Law said there's supposed to be another one coming in Thurs / Fri that's just as bad,
He said the storm that just hit us is the worst since 1936, much worse than the one in the mid 80's and he said he's never know storms to piggyback like this
Both ESB & Eircom have done a cracking job getting everybody back, especially when you look at how the UK is fairing
That is so sad! Wonder why the owners did not have a barn with hay for them to go into.Turkey Weather, a week and a half ago:
Donkeys just sort of stand in place as though literally frozen solid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6OW9jlnCjM8
Published on Dec 12, 2013
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