Floods & Landslides Night Of Terror in Co. Mayo, Ireland 1997
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2022
- Lucky escape for brothers during freak floods and landslides in Mayo.
The heavy rain and mudslides are believed to have caused over a million pounds worth of damage to homes, roads and bridges in County Mayo.
Peter McMenamin is in a state of shock and disbelief after his house and possessions were destroyed by floods.
A raging torrent of mud-laden water raced through his house last night destroying everything in its path.
At the height of last night’s storm, Peter McMenamin and his brother John had to flee from their home and almost lost their lives in the process. They were swept along by the water to a neighbour’s house. Peter McMenamin describes how they crawled along a wall to escape as the flood water rose. He spent two hours hanging on to a wall with water up to his chest. John McMenamin was swept away by the water but managed to reach safety through a window with the assistance of neighbour Patrick Healy.
Local people estimate that a million pounds worth of damage was done by the two hour downpour and landslide.
50 sheep and a still unaccounted number of cattle were drowned and potato and oat crops were washed away. Farmer James Ruddy says that all he has left is a few bales of silage.
Despite the losses, there was relief today that no lives were lost in the night of terror. Dr Tom Moffatt, Minister of State in the Department of Health, visited the scene of the floods and said that it is now up to Mayo County Council and the Department of the Environment to assist with repairing the damage.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 13 July 1997. The reporter is Jim Fahy. - Zábava
That shot with the man holding the window up is incredible. They news aren't what they used to be
I Blessed my self with my left hand , Faith Right There .
He was holding on to the wall with his right hand.
An old Mayo mate of mine once told me 'we get 6 months of rain and 6 months of bad weather in a good year', made me chuckle and he may well have been correct.
I think that must be Pullatomas, northwest Mayo. They're always having mudslides, it's the sheep over grazing the hillsides, and causing erosion. I must say I don't remember that storm, and we were living in a mobile home at the time whilst our house was being built.
Incorrect. Glencullen
It was indeed Pullathomais, and 89mm of rain fell there, on a night that Belmullet recorded 8mm.
It occurred after a long dry spell, and effectively the peat floated off the underlying deposits at a particular land gradient . Once mobilised, the water/peat matrix gained kinetic energy on the slope, and did a lot of damage
@@genghisthegreat2034 your wrong,as the last comment said this was Glencullen, it was caused by a river bursting its banks! the Pullathomas landslide happened in 2003
The first man’s voice and accent is beautiful.
North mayo accent, all rolled Rs and lilting
My great uncle Peter mcmanamon
Mayo have had several nights of terror most of them are the nights of all Ireland football finals and semi finals
I didn't know that rain was like that in the Irish country side.....
There's one thing for sure about Irish Weather, expect the unexpected.
It rains twice as much in most parts of the west of Ireland than the rest. The reason mudslides happen here though is because of overgrazing sheep. There should be trees on these hillsides to stabilise the ground
@@elguaje7. Trees ? what are they ? lol, Ireland is one gigantic farm, there's a lot more trees in Snowdonia park in Wales than all of Ireland. Forests would be nice to see in Ireland instead of bits of woods dotted around the island.
@@o00scorpion00o I completely agree. 2% native cover is laughable
@@elguaje7. Is it even 2% ? I'd be surprised.
A million pound of damage in 97 would be hundreds of millions of euro in 2022 🤔
a country million like a country mile
The brother was lucky to survive being lifted and struck agin healys door! I wonder what Healy was at when this was going on?
Everything was going swimmingly until he mentioned Noel Dempsey
Love your expression " everything was going swimmingly until ..." Imma try to remember that one.😆
@@mariapierce2707 is toch zo goed rentmeesterschap geldt toch altijd ,boeren bedrijven zullen meer biologische landbouw plegen en half agrarisch/ half veeteelt is ook beter voor de grond komt bodemleven in
The horror, the horror.
Shut up for fuks sake,, they were mouldy oul fukkers anyway,,wouldnt give ye the time of day.
Them poor men are long gone now I'd say
A few of them warriors are still going
@@lasrachtech.1341 fair play to them. A different Eire now. .
Yeah,,,,gone and gladly forgotten,,they were miserable oul fukkers
@@crok22 Zactly,,,,it all started with Haughy,,,then Ahearn kept fukkin it up,,,Mc sharry,,,pee Flynn,,,,all wankers,,,,and now,,the fukkin i r a mary loo( yes loo,,,she is a piss pot) they will make it all fukkin worse,,,,a crock of shit fuk the dile...Jus sayin is all
@@crok22 don’t know what you mean
A drop of rain never bothered no one, it will make the spuds and cabbage’s grow.
Why is it always those who least deserve it who get the wrong end of the stick ?
Why did they dig the roads in suit tops during the 70's, early 80's ?
Hoe moet ik dat weten De wegenbouw maffia ?
Ja dat waren Engelsen of uit Ierland die bij boeren hun oprijlaan asfalteerden bedoel jij die ??
@@joseffinat966 That's Dutch. Can you please translate it into English-ish?
They’re jackets made of wool, which is a tweed weave very sturdy which is ideal for work wear. They’re not a suit jacket ….
How awful bless them
God bless them all, it must have been such an awful experience.
Where was you're god when this was happening
@@mick1gallagher Good question.
Maybe you are underestimating the difficulty of the act of Creation.
@@mick1gallagher keeping their own lives safe.
The man said he was holding on with his right hand and blessing himself with his left...
Suffering is a part of life and it is guaranteed for everyone. If you want to go to a place where there is no suffering it is called heaven...
our suffering on earth prepares our souls for heaven...
God loves every person and yet many people suffer because God wants to be with them and this is the means of their salvation. It’s difficult to understand. He even came down to be a man so that he could suffer and be tortured to death to free us from our sins, which cause suffering, and to show us how our suffering has meaning.
What more explanation could you want?
God bless you.
@@mick1gallaghersatan is the god of this world...Have you read the Bible? ..but his time's almost up.
@@edmondironside240Amen ❤
Terrible for the people who live there.
Where in mayo?
The last place God made😲
Gleann Chulainn / Glencullen in North Mayo
Did that happen on the august bank holiday? 1997
Did the what?
July 1997. Although, the August Bank Holiday weekend in 1997 I recall was a washout. August that year was over all poor with the Dome in Tralee almost getting blown away!!!
@@anothercomment yep. I remember there was a heatwave predicated for the august band holiday but it started to rain about 2 am Sunday morning and it was literally monsoon rain for the next few Days. I was at an event in Stradbally Co laois. That is why I remember the weather that weekend so well
@@williambinions4205 was that the steam rally you were at?
@@seamusburke9101 yes it was. The ground conditions got so bad that weekend the steam rally was cancelled and that most of the exhibits had to be pulled out of the field with a track machine
Looking at some of the comments and /or replies here... Hot Press is one of the worst things that ever happened to Ireland.
Not a word about climate change
Omdat het ook niet is alles is man Made is al heel lang het geval HAARP,chemtrails en zolang mensen zich stilhouden veranderd er niets
Good. Mayo is next to the Atlantic, expect storms. Tough people.
Mayos night of terror is every all Ireland final night thats mayos night of terror
*Mayo's **that's
Government geo engineering. Research it folks
That's the cleanest the house ever was
:D
Mark you are a prick making fun of people that lost everything.
What good is a clean house when all the spuds's are gone, oats are gone, hay is gone? A few bales of silage will not keep them going for long
Haha…..I was in a couple of houses back in the early 90s that were dirtier than the house that got flooded. One fella referred to it as “clean dirt”
Replace the trees on the mountains with sheep, get floods.
The trees would stop mudslides. And help with recurrent flooding in certain places. But not flash floods. Enough rain in a short space of time in a mountainous area and it will flood regardless of the level of afforestation.
@@Dreyno dat heeft te maken met CHemtrails over heel de aarde ,chemtrails is Wethermodificatie en als militaire wapen
"nOEL dEMPSEY !" ---LOL with what we know now ...
What did he do?
yerra Schtop hey !
Nanty on the rowl...
@@davekeating. wie is nanty?? En welke spiegel ,zeg gewoon hoe het zit
01:29 Did he say ''All me hair is gone'' Needs a mirror)) Probably gone too!!!
Hare for gods sake. The poor man had just cooked a hare for his brother to eat. The hare got out the open window and took off half cooked. Keep up Mc vich!!
He said that "all his hay was gone"
@@Eddie-ev9bv Hair Hare and Hay!! A real bad day indeed.
@@jamescornflake1542 begrijp hier niets meer van ,wat is er toch steeds met die spiegel mirror ??
Hay, he said his hay is gone. For feeding livestock
GOD'S Rage is yet to come this is truly sad yet sadness we've never experienced as a people will flood are hearts in war's flame's disease famine and sinfulness
JESUS =Light, Truth, Way/Life
Accept HIM
Repent
Forgive
Praise GOD FATHER, SON, GHOST
♥️🙏✝️
The poor potatos,,,tch,,shame,,,drowned spuds
i like my spuds drown in meat and cabbage like
@@The_Gallowglass absamaveryfukkinlutely,,,de only way te have em,,,and in beginning of July Wexford queens on their own smothered in butter,,,,and the butter that left over,,,ye can bend the missus over the couch and do a bit of buttered ass,,,,bury it deep,, aaahhhh,,the memories of a few spuds brings back all the good things in life. Maggie,,,get in here,,,I have some butter,,,,nend over,,,,,,Whos yer daddy/ whos yer daddu?
He’s no hair left,did he only cop that
HAY
@@sir243_simr Yo Bro!!
His mirror blew out the window.
@@sir243_simr Hare!! His Hare ran off!!
If you were a hare sitting in a frying pan and you looked out the window and saw a landslide coming down the mountain, wouldn't you take off fairly rapid?
Ja zeer trieste aanblik
T'was shurley
Lost your spuds. Terror!
Always a terror when the spuds go floatin' away.
Oats and hay gone too. Nathin left but a few bales of silage to keep him going
Mayo 4 sam
Dream on 🙄 never ever
Mayonaise bedoel je mijn huisgenoot ?
@@tomahern1649 daar heb ik ook geen illusies over ,ieder heeft ergens zijn bedoelingen mee moeten zij zelf weten, maar ik ook heb geen zin om steeds maar een raadspelletje ervan te maken of op te lossen om zo een wereldorde te creëren
@@joseffinat966 Maigh Eo oder Mayo auf Englisch ist eine Grafschaft im Westen Irlands. Es ist ein großes wildes Gebiet mit Moor, Grasland, Bergen, Seen und Flüssen. Der Name Maigh Eo bedeutet Land der Eiben
"a real ancient christian "blessed himself with his left hand " .... and Rome jesuit pedo cult die out thanks be to dia !"""