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UP TO THREE thousand electricity customers are still without power this morning as a result of last night’s bad weather.
Homes and businesses in and around Arklow, and customers in parts of Cork county – Fermoy and Bandon in particular – are worst affected.
A spokesperson for ESB Networks said crews were working to reconnect those affected, and that it was hoped the work would be completed by midday or 1pm.
He said there were also some other small clusters of homes around the country without power, but “nothing out of the ordinary” in terms of normal weekday problems.
There were no reports of any outages in Kilkenny City, ESB Networks said. Earlier this morning, a reader from the area sent the below video to TheJournal.ie which appears to show a power cut in the city at the height of last night’s thunder storms…
(Youtube: Dave Knoximus )
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God he’s annoying.
Sounds like he is getting the ride!
No power outages in Dublin so nobody cares. There used to not useing there showers down country side while useing candles as light . Scruffy muldoons
Why is Kilkenny always referred to as Kilkenny City when others are named as Waterford, Cork, etc. Is it some kind of complex?
That video is hilarious! Who knew a lightening storm could be quite so ‘arousing!’
He said “F@€king” God!Yes he does sound like he is having sex
Just a wee heads up, video contains some NSFW language!
Totally awesome footage, voice over and all! I’ve only ever seen fork lightening a few times in my life so it was pretty cool!
Go ESB you guys rock !!!!!!!
Some serious lightning down my way last night..
That video is hilarious! Who knew a lightening storm could be quite so ‘arousing’!
Have a listen to this guy Fiona (Double Rainbow) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI
Is he actually crying??! I’m crying with laughter here!! Thank you for that!!
Here’s his follow up Video explaining his reaction – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VZiwmRb3xc
He’s out there, One with everything, I get the feeling he’ll come back in another life as a tree or something
A sign of things to come !!!!
OMG
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