Storm Éowyn: L’Irlanda rurale è stata abbandonata all’indomani? | Newstalk
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Storm Éowyn: L’Irlanda rurale è stata abbandonata all’indomani? | Newstalk
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We’ve a huge (long?) electricity grid for our population, I’d imagine that has a lot to do with it.
RTE had interviewed one of the Austrian guys who came over the fix the powerlines, and he was saying the grid in rural Ireland was exactly the same as the grid in rural Austria, overhead powerlines running on mid voltage. He said that the work was taking longer though because of the bogs and hills, and that typically the poles they use are thicker.
I hear there are ppl that won’t have power now, until the 8th. This must be a national record.
There are going to me more, and much more powerful, storms in our future so we really need to find something to alleviate this. One thing that might work, is to distribute battery energy storage around the countryside. Sections of the grid that are disconnected from the production lines, could at least get some power for a bit. Perhaps use domestic feed-ins from domestic solar and wind to keep some sections of the grid alive too.
No. The answer is no.
Edit.
Newstalk click bait 🙄
Rural Ireland has abandoned common sense.
If we had the resources immediately available to fix everything within a week the cost would be unsustainable for a once in a generation event.
Obviously,once your outside the M50,the government don’t give a bollocks about you
It’s been this way,ever since the grate recession and distain poured onto parish politics
I think every resource is being thrown at re-connecting the grid. It just takes a lot longer to re-connect rural communities.
Whether or not more supports could have been offered to communities in the interim is another issue though: although even communicating that sort of information was difficult given the lack of electricity or internet coverage.
Resolving problems which reconnect the most people at once. Crazy wha!
Wont have power until the 2nd here, been a nightmare of a week tbh
Isn’t it just that’s its the worst damage ever done so they aren’t prepared for it. Not that shocking, they’re working over time and have recruited staff from abroad it’s just a huge job. People aren’t prepared for it either since it’s unprecedented I bet alot of farmers are buying generators now they’re selling out everywhere.
It’s terrible, but there’s a lot of work being done. We literally got people in from Austria. I’m all for shitting on the gubberment but this ain’t one.
Yes it was. If we didn’t have generators we would be alot worse off.
They’ve for over half a million homes back up so far and still going hard at it. Id call that impressive work.
No
The weakness of local government and our county councils has been very stark this week. Zero presence, zero response from what I’ve seen, (Roscommon and Leitrim councils). Funding from central government might be the root cause, but it’s been clear that the system is not fit for purpose.
Im all for kicking the likes of Michael Martin, but the local councilors and executives are asleep at the wheel here.
Yes. A week without power and water is ridiculous.
I’ve been hiding in a pub the last few nights with a crew of linemen from Derby. They’re trying not to be critical but they’re frustrated spending two, three, four hours sitting in the swimming pool car park waiting for orders. Then rather than connecting everything and getting us up and running safely and coming back later to tidy up, they have to do a full bells and whistles job there and then. It’s taking forever and is a shocking waste of man hours.
just got power and water back yesterday, so yes. same thing every storm.
While I have sympathy for everyone still affected by power loss etc. if you decide to live rurally this is one of the downsides.
They’re going to triage fixes that resolve the issue for the most people first, if you’ve decided to live in a rural location where the line fix will restore power for less than 10 houses you’re at the back of the queue.
This was one of the worst storms ever in Ireland, a lot of lines needed to be fixed and you ARE at the end of the queue BECAUSE you live rurally.
Who?
One of the big issues with any kind of infrastructure problems in Ireland is anytime the government wants to undertake a major infrastructure upgrade it gets held up by nimbys and complainers. Landowners don’t want anything crossing their lands, communities don’t want the disruption of it going in the roads.
Planning regulations in this country that give the government no power to make these kind of projects happen because of the objections of any Tom, Dick or Harry are a major factor.
surely it’s the dispersal of the remaining homes that makes it such a headache.
Less one-off developments need to be allowed in future. Or else as battery prices drop, outfit homes with battery storage.
It’s definitely brought the attention of ESB/Eir’s maintenance in the rural areas to attention.
Eir’s on particular are a fucking state out our way. ESB do have the contractors out to trim the trees every so often but eir never go near their poles unless they’re adding a new one as some poor fucker had to pay up to get one set up for his broadband.
Our power came back last night but I was fucking dreading that the Internet was going to be offline.
Big middle class energy from a lot of people I’m this thread. Can’t spare a bit of sympathy for your fellow people in this country who may not have access not just to electricity, but heat and water?
I do expect more of an emergency response from the government, this is a crisis for many people going into their eighth day without power.
There are so many vulnerable people affected. I am worried for these people. Those on oxygen, dialysis, needing a hoist and other medical devices that require electricity to run, they need support. The elderly and those with young children. People on the poverty line.
The lack of phone signal really worsened the situation, totally isolating people.
Communities are doing their best to help each other but if you don’t think this is a crisis for those 60000+ unfortunate people, saying they somehow deserve it by living in rural Ireland, well I hope you enjoy your warm food and bed and reddit.