The beast from the wast was the perfect example that we cant handle wintery weather at all and that we didn’t learn our lesson from the 2010 deep freeze But.. do you think much has changed since 2018 for the next beast from the east scale event to be more manageable?

by GP728

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  1. I also implore you to share some of your beast from the east photos because despite all the chaos I quite enjoyed seeing all the snowfall

  2. I remember making snow angles with my ex and being ridiculously happy!

  3. No, there will be panic, and people will flock to stock up on the most perishable goods and toilet paper. You better start hoarding your toilet paper now

  4. aren’t even ready for the next mild shower let alone snow

  5. Beast from the East was an amateur compared to 1984 or whenever it was

  6. Well I have my shorts and vest tops ready and waiting…yes I’m that person.

  10. Unless there’s a flood risk, I don’t envision people ever prepping for things like this. We tend to have the attitude of, “Sure look, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it”. This happened last time and the country panicked and bought up all the bread on the shelves if you remember.

  11. No, good job it will be 15C and rainy for the rest of this winter

  13. Only things I remember about that are making a snowman out the back and seeing all the videos from that Lidl in Tallaght being looted by fellas wearing designer clothes

  14. As it’s a rare event it’s not worth investing money in preparation when most of that money would never be used. It’s the same here or in the UK or anywhere that gets this kind of weather very infrequently.

    When it happens everyone will complain that we’re not as prepared as countries that have this weather routinely every year, but nothing all that bad will happen and then it’ll clear up and get back to normal and nobody will be interested in diverting taxes from other things so we’re better prepared when it happens again a decade or two later.

  15. I was on a Dublin Bus, the 41, coming down through Santry. A single decker – remember those!

    Anyway the snow was so deep the driver made all the lads get out and push the bus for about half a mile. While he “supervised”.

  16. Wish I had pics of the 4 foot long icicles hanging from my gutters. Never seen anything like.

  18. There has definitely been investment in salt barns over the last few years, who knows if it’s enough or overkill.

    Work from Home availability is obviously widespread since covid so our economy is more prepared in that sense.

  21. I was 20 weeks pregnant at the time working in healthcare, called my manager and told her I wasn’t comfortable driving myself to work but I’d try my best to get a taxi in…………she made the suggestion that I walk the 7km like an older male colleague of mine did the day previous 🥴

  22. Not according to carlow weather & he’s usually bang on

  23. Just waiting for all the people to comment about their winter tyres

  26. We’re not even ready for an average Tuesday day of traffic on the M50.

  27. The Beast from the East was the last and final time this sub reached its peak.

    Before the Housing Crisis had grown so bad that everyone below a certain age had moved away or had the optimism sucked out of their soul.

    Before Covid, and the far right really taking hold, where everything turned to shit thereafter, and online discussion entered a terminal decline, with increasingly rising jingoism and polarized political discussion since.

    If another storm like that happened now, it’ll lead to a massive number of dead victims of the housing crisis i.e. homeless people.

  28. Fuck sake they’re the few rare days we all get off! Don’t knock it man 🤣

  29. Sure we get them about once every 10 to 20 years, we’ll never be ready as is an outlying phenomenon that lasts for a few days at most. There’s not much point in investing in snow ploughs and skis.

  30. Ireland can’t handle that much snow but it made memories for me and my daughter walking down main roads and by passes to go try get groceries. We still talk about it today when it’s mentioned.

  31. I remember the electricity went. Ended up cooing fish finger over the fire. 

  32. If you think back a little more there was like nearly 2 weeks of snow during Christmas in 2006-7 with temperatures reaching – 17 in Dublin which is unprecedented. And yet we’re all still here.

  33. I remember marching through the snow to the only open chipper with the missus. It would only be a 15min walk to this one but you’d swear we were Shackleton marching through the blizzard to get a bag of chips. Nicest chipper I’ve ever had and the only one if ever had to work for.

  34. Main night of Beast from the East in Cork a bunch of Brazilians in the apartment complex I was living in had never seen snow so brought their kitchen table down two flights to sit out in it and drink at about 10pm when it was ligthening off. I passed them as I was walking back to my flat and struck up a conversation with em.

    Next thing I know I’m being grabbed by two of them on insistence and a chair is brought down from their flat for me, and a big cup of Brazilian tonic wine is thrust into my hand. Brilliant night. We had a big sing song and all strangely enough, they were mad for traditional Irish tunes and sang some Brazilian ones as well.

    As well a bit of a snowball fight erupted.

  35. Preferable to another Storm Eowyn. I spent 12 days without power after *that* particular event.

  36. Are we due another beast from the east or something!?

  39. Like mentally? Yeah I’d be up for a snow day lock in again alright

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