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    Circa 39.000 case, aziende agricole e aziende sono ancora senza energia mentre il recupero della tempesta continua

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    1. HighDeltaVee on

      [This](https://www.geo-ref.net/ph/irl.htm) is a population density map of Ireland.

      [This](https://powercheck.esbnetworks.ie/) is a map of the remaining faults to be fixed.

      Ireland has four times the average length of electric power line compared to Europe, due to very sparse housing density such as these areas.

      Almost every ESB project now is down a small country lane fixing a fault for a couple of dozen houses.

    3. NaturalAlfalfa on

      Got ours back day before yesterday. Still no internet – they can’t even give an estimate for when it’ll be back. And no phone signal in the house – I’m out in the back field with the dogs..

    4. TheFreemanLIVES on

      ESB networks rock, good rep internationally as well. We had a refresh of the network about 25 years ago which stood up well over the years, but hopefully it’s something that can be considered again.

    5. CrypticNebular on

      They’re down to the really sparse and awkward stuff now which means every fault they repair is serving a few homes. Apparently they’ve about 3000 contractors drafted in from other European utility companies to help this along.

      The issue this is illustrating is our rather daft development patterns – houses scattered at random and 4 to 6 times as much wiring as the EU average.

      It’s the same with the fibre networks – they’re huge for the numbers of homes served.

    6. Busy-Rule-6049 on

      The winds in Galway were a grade 3 hurricane at one stage I believe. I think sometimes the word storm downplays how bad it was.

    7. OnlySheStandsThere on

      Just got mine back about an hour ago. This was a rough ten days, but they’ve done trojan work.

    8. Due-Background8370 on

      That 39,000 includes families with newborns, disabled and immobile people, the elderly, poor people who don’t have the money to pay a hotel upfront. 

      By about day 3 of this crisis the media had all but moved on, no longer a headline story and so have politicians. 

      ESB workers are flying it, doing a great job in rough conditions.

      Government is a disgrace and have done fuck all for vulnerable communities during this crisis.

    9. ddtt on

      Cousin works for the ESB and sends the odd picture during the day of the bad stuff.
      There are places in the Midlands where I could only describe it as absolute carnage. Just a mesh of wires, poles and trees.

      They’re literally cutting their way through trees just to get to downed cables and poles only to make them safe before any work on repair/replacement can be even started.

      Also they’ve now been working so many days straight that they’re legally obliged to stop for rest days so there will be change over of workers this week.

    10. WolfOfWexford on

      Worst Storm in living memory and the worst since electrification. ESB networks might be essentially rebuilding the network in the North West.

      Worst I’ve heard is where lines were running through commercial softwood forestry and the entire line was decimated

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