{"id":306318,"date":"2026-01-27T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/306318\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:50:07","slug":"storm-chandra-updates-trees-down-roads-flooded-and-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/306318\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra updates: Trees down, roads flooded and power outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Storm Chandra is currently wreaking havoc across Donegal with reports of trees down, roads flooded and power outages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Status Yellow rain warning is in effect for Donegal and the entire country until 11pm.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal County Council is reporting a tree down on the R247 in the townland of Saltpans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to a fallen tree, the R-247 regional road at Saltpans is partially blocked. Motorists are asked to drive with care in this area. Roads crew are attending to clear the fallen tree,\u201d a council spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Flooding at Watery Road junction Burnfoot<\/p>\n<p>Road users are advised that there is flooding at the junction between Watery Road (L1841) and the R238 Regional Road at Burnfoot village. Passable with care.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Blaney Bridge closed<\/p>\n<p>Due to high winds, the Harry Blaney Bridge will be closed from 8am to 11am today 27th. Motorists are asked to use an alternative route during these times.<\/p>\n<p>A number of power cuts <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/2026\/01\/27\/storm-chandra-power-cuts-impact-parts-donegal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have also been reported<\/a><\/strong> around down following strong gusts in the early hours of this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Storm Chandra updates: Trees down, roads flooded and power outages was last modified:  January 27th, 2026 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>      Tags:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Storm Chandra is currently wreaking havoc across Donegal with reports of trees down, roads flooded and power outages.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,669,150352,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,122339,150353,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-306318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donegal-news","11":"tag-donegal-road-blocked","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-rathmullan","24":"tag-storm-chandra-donegal","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115967624830877095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}