Torrents

[hawkwing_lb]

Torrential flooding in Dublin has resulted in two deaths, several evacuations, and some potentially serious structural damange.

Me, I had no idea it was this bad when I left the house to go to the train station this morning. The trains were running (if indeed they were running) with a delay of ninety minutes, and if I'd got to town, I would have hell's snowball's chance of getting back if the rain kept up.

Walking for ten minutes to the train station resulted in a soaking clear through to the skin, by the way. Through my wool jumper and allegedly waterproof winter coat.

So now I am home again, and the sun has come out to taunt me.

Comments

[clarentine]

I am glad you are home and dry, then!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I'd no idea it was this seriously wet.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathies, that sounds really quite horrible.

I keep hoping that one of these months there might be news from Ireland that will not so actively reinforce my decision to emigrate, but this does not seem to be the month for it.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The sun is shining now. Tauntingly.

I do not hold out much hope of it, myself. (My own plan is: advanced degree -> Go Somewhere Else... it isn't really the world's sanest country, this one.)

[fjm.livejournal.com]

chilperic> stayed home today, much to my relief.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yes. It was not a morning - or even a day - to leave one's home. Provided that one's home stands on a nice, well-drained rise, and not on the floodplain of our poor overfilled rivers.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

He is in Ballsbridge, but, thank god, on the fifth floor.

[jennygadget.livejournal.com]

I am glad you are safe and now dry!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Dryness is a consummation devoutly to be wish'd, indeed.