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WE HAVE PASSED the 4pm weather warning deadline and people are being told to stay indoors until tomorrow afternoon.
For anyone thinking of venturing out in their car, Boston native Seán O’Neill, of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, suggests they take heed of the fact that even in a US city where there is huge investment in infrastructure around snow and blizzard conditions, most people there take weather warnings very seriously.
“What happens sometimes is people have big 4x4s and think they are all that and a bag of chips,” he told TheJournal.ie.
“It’s a bit like an airplane when you don’t know where the horizon is, there’s a whiteout and you can’t see properly. So you have 4x4s driving off bridges and motorways and that’s a danger then for others who come to rescue them.
Anyone who thinks they have a great vehicle, no matter how experienced a driver you are, even in a tank if you can’t see in front of you, you can go right off a road and you’re putting rescue people at risk, their lives.
He said in Boston when a state of emergency is declared and drivers ignore warnings from the authorities, there can be “serious consequences”.
“State troopers will throw you in the the clink or you won’t see your car again,” he explained.
“I know it sounds like hype but, trust me, I don’t care if you’re in Ireland or in Boston – you don’t drive in a blizzard.”
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Prime Culchie Telly
Culchies and Skangers, week in, week out!
@⚡ Seánie ⚡:
Beats Fair City
@Mark O’sullivan: sure if you are not a Dublin skanger you are a culchie, so who else could be on it?
@Tweety McTweeter: Ah come on…… Even the angelus beats fair city……..
The lottery is a tax on the poor….Many more poor people buy tickets than rich ones….Also when it was set up we were promised by government then 50% of the lottery money would go.to good causes….Now that it is sold to British company Camelot how much goes to good causes…I think it is only 12% as far as I know….
@John003: Is it not a Canadian fund?
@Peter: Yes correct Ontario teachers pension fund who also own Camelot which owns British lottery….Smart investors Ontario teachers….
That wheel is rigged.I don’t care what anyone says.I’ve seen it several times where the wheel was practically stopped and the ball suddenly bounces out of a slot with a higher amount into a slot with a lower amount.Either that or RTÉ have a ghost in the studio.
@Padraig: 9 times out of 10 the ball will fall between two higher numbers Amazing how it happens week after week
Remember years ago they used to add another top slot each week to the wheel? They should do that again.
Minimum on wheel should be 50K, twenty is very mean in fairness, or else keep the 20K but if it lands on that you get a second go… it’s not like everyone gets to spin it…
Wouldn’t mind but the show is recorded on a Friday
@hugh sure: Is it not a Saturday morning now?
@hugh sure: Saturday at 2pm.
Haven’t watched this in years dont even buy lottery tickets since the lottery was sold.
Driving the indoctrinated tradition of gambling and the hope of unattainable better possibilities.
Willy Wonka and the Golden ticket is the only worse (but I still love it) programming for a culture of gambling addiction
I imagine rich people dont play the lotto because 1. They dont need the few bob and 2. They probably have a casino habit like pastime. I buy a winning streak ticket almost every week, I also play the lotto on a family sydicate for €20 a month. I dont leave meself broke to play it. I do it cause I enjoy playing the lotto. Don’t see any of it as a fix its a game of playing with the odds. What’s the big deal if people play lotto or winning streak? I love hearing of lotto winners, scratch card winners, raffle winners… I was lucky enough to have a win from it before. The lotto also give back to charities and the likes its not going into Paddy Power or Ladbrokes accounts. Live and let live and all that…
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