Snow Causes Major Disruptions, Ireland 1982
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2023
- The heaviest snowfall across Ireland for decades results in traffic chaos, fuel and food shortages, and the closure of schools and workplaces.
Transport, communications and electricity supplies were badly disrupted in the worst cold spell since 1963 to hit the country.
Brendan O’Brien reports on how the severe weather conditions are impacting on towns along the east coast with emergency services having huge demands being placed upon them.
Five helicopters from the Army Air Corps made more than twenty mercy missions from Baldonnel Aerodrome. One of the most frequent emergency calls involved pregnant women in labour.
No one disputes that this is one of the worst weather emergencies we’ve had in living memories.
Almost 24 hours after the first snowfall many people are having to fend for themselves, digging a way out of snow drifts and clearing roads. Up to 50 people are still stuck at the Aeromotive factory in Dublin. The Naas Road has come to a standstill as people attempt to dig themselves out of the snow drifts.
Train stations and airports have also been forced to close with 400 people having to spend the night at Heuston Station, trapped as a result of frozen railway points. The Dublin airport road was effectively impassable in places, as were most main roads in and out of the capital in scenes virtually unknown in Ireland this century. The airport will remain closed until further notice. Many small towns on the east coast are almost cut off from food supplies, with people now queuing for limited supplies of bread.
Around 55,000 homes, mainly in rural areas, were without electricity today. The ESB are working tirelessly to return services with about 25,000 homes in isolated areas remaining blacked out.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 9 January 1982. The reporter is Brendan O’Brien. - Zábava
I remember this time well. I've a photo of Dad, and the neighbours digging out the back lane. They'd a great time. The girl on the train on the left, I'd a jumper like that. No buses, I must have got into work because I remember walking home to Perrystown later. Ah great days when we had had a lovely country.
It was even worse in Germany, at that time ,we got the tail end of that snow storm , and it was very cold , very sharp frost .People went out to help with food & fuel to old people in their local area,
I think it got down to - 15 in some area , the summer desel frose, in tractors lorries, and cars , fun times, Mr pat Kenny, on the radio early return of the ice age by the year 2000 ,
It was a different time living in Ireland back then , we were happy-go-lucky ,
The days when the msm didn't lose its shit over a spell of cold weather
Hahaha👍
They didn't have a hard on for climate change back then 😂
I was 7 yo and remember this well. So much fun when yr a kid
At 1:58 there is a SAAB 900. Nice to see a swedish made car in Ireland in back in 1982.
That Super Puma the Aer Corps had back then was fantastic.
I remember it very well
Renault 4 (x 2) 👍
I remember it vividly. Living in Ardee, myself and my brothers were at school in Dundalk and used to travel on the CIE bus. The radio reported that most of the schools in Dundalk were closed, except mine, I had just turned 10 on the 3rd and was in primary at School Mhuire Na Trocaire. The secondary part of that school, St Vincent's, was also open, so only girls headed to school. By lunchtime the decision was made to close these last two schools. Walking back to the bus stop, my socks were so frozen that I broke a hole in them. From then on we had an amazing adventure with our lovely driver Johnny. It took us 24 hours to make the 12 mile journey home as we got stranded in so many places after numerous diversions. It must have looked quite comical to see 12 or so young girls trying to push a bus out of the drifts. Eventually we got totally stuck in the grass at Tallonstown as the road had long since been obscured. The local pub took us in for the night and next day a farmer was able to put us on a trailer and take us a further few miles. We did end up having to walk the last few miles to get home. Our Driver was our hero, he never showed any sign of worry or stress with his cargo of young ladies and I guess we never realized the fear our families might be under. We didn't even have a house phone in those days.
Emerald island was covered in white....
Be interesting to see the forecast at the time
This is just a normal winter occurrence in Canada!
I was 12 & remember me Da eying up all us kids & trying to decide which one was getting eaten first. It was THAT bad!
Of course it is in Canada but this was Ireland where such extreme snow events were not an annual occurrence even back then!
Sure it is ……… but in Ireland at that time there was zero equipment to deal with this amount of snow. If you notice the people trying to dig the snow did not have snow shovels, just something like a spade or a regular shovel. There was no such thing as a snow plow or a snow blower to clear snow. I was in college in UCD in Dublin and I remember the army used army trucks as buses to move people. After several days the snow on the sidewalks was hard packed ice 4” to 5” thick and you couldn’t shovel anything. They actually used compressors in the city to chop and break up the ice on the sidewalks. I was stuck in the house where I had “digs” for almost three days which we spent the time playing poker with the landlady. “Digs” for those who don’t know was when you rented a bedroom in someone’s house and also had breakfast or diner included in the price. I spent 4 years in a house with another student and our landlady was a sweet old lady in her seventies. It was great except the house had no central heating system and I remember during that storm the lace curtains on my bedroom window froze to the glass with the condensation and dampness. You used to wear a winter coat in bed and use a hot water bottle too. When that snow storm started I rode a bicycle home in the snow about 2.5 miles …… soaked to the skin and frozen. The clothes we had in Ireland were not suitable for this kind of weather.
It was bad
Global Boiling...
How can we stop this terrible climate change before it’s too late? Lol
Don't worry, Klaus Schwab has our backs!
What climate change...?
Everything changes ergo you can't stop change. Go with the flow. There is no climate change in Ireland.