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Yes, but I would far rather that land be moving in early January than the middle of February. Let it rain away for another fortnight if needs be.
Agreed. It's just today was about as bad a day as I've seen in a good while and it's been a long time since water was flowing around like it was this morning.
 
who here remembers this, I was too small to remember it properly, any interesting tales from the big snow

 
who here remembers this, I was too small to remember it properly, any interesting tales from the big snow

i was only 6 but remember the drifts up the road here being able to walk from the field 1 side of the road to the other about 10ft over the road
also people queing outside the dairy to collect milk from the tank
also dad taking a emergency orange milk tank on the back of a 4ton tipper trailer behind a 5748 zetor 8 mile to the milk factory
 
who here remembers this, I was too small to remember it properly, any interesting tales from the big snow

yep remember it.remember having to go back for my weekly holidays to crumlin hospital in my uncle's beetle.he had to stop several times to clear the snow from between the wheels and the wheel arches.
 
Don't remember it, but my father often talks about it. one of their milk delivery drivers (worked in a co-op) got stranded and he borrowed a county off a local haulier/farmer/contractor and went on a mission to collect him.

I think the guy had rang from a pub though and wasn't overly bothered about going home by the time my dad arrived.
 
There was a big snow in 1947 too. I don't remember it
,47 scared a lot of people, my parents use to talk about it, it snowed late in the spring and stayed way too long. My father talked about ploughing for Dev:d compulsory wheat in May and having to leave parts of the fields because of the snow drifts still not being gone near the hedges. A lot of Irish people worried in 47 that it was going to be a repeat of "Black '47"
 
My Grandad used to talk of 47’, they lived in Carraroe and he talked of snow still on the ground on the 1st of June, considering how close to the Atlantic they are that must have been some dose
 
who here remembers this, I was too small to remember it properly, any interesting tales from the big snow

I remember it, drifted snow that piled up along hedges, blew out through gates along roadsides creating huge drifts, there was one that a local lad carved his "T K was here " into the side of it and it was there a week or more, I was cutting timber for a man and he said leave it and go home, went home and had a bit of business to do in Clonmel 20 miles away, got there ok but barely made it back in a Mk 2 Escort, an hour more and I'd have been away for the night. the remnants of drifts were there for 3 weeks at least.
 
,47 scared a lot of people, my parents use to talk about it, it snowed late in the spring and stayed way too long. My father talked about ploughing for Dev:d compulsory wheat in May and having to leave parts of the fields because of the snow drifts still not being gone near the hedges. A lot of Irish people worried in 47 that it was going to be a repeat of "Black '47"
There's a story around here from 1947 about a lad that lived on the mountain bringing down a donkey cart of snow to the local cattle fair in the last week of June. Nobody had ever seen snow so late around the place.
 
I remember it, drifted snow that piled up along hedges, blew out through gates along roadsides creating huge drifts, there was one that a local lad carved his "T K was here " into the side of it and it was there a week or more, I was cutting timber for a man and he said leave it and go home, went home and had a bit of business to do in Clonmel 20 miles away, got there ok but barely made it back in a Mk 2 Escort, an hour more and I'd have been away for the night. the remnants of drifts were there for 3 weeks at least.
I thought you were talking about '47 until you mentioned the MK2
 
,47 scared a lot of people, my parents use to talk about it, it snowed late in the spring and stayed way too long. My father talked about ploughing for Dev:d compulsory wheat in May and having to leave parts of the fields because of the snow drifts still not being gone near the hedges. A lot of Irish people worried in 47 that it was going to be a repeat of "Black '47"
my father was paranoid about snow after 47, he always left a shovel inside the front door of the dwelling house so he could dig himself out the next morning if it snowed, in 82 they used bulldozers to clear the main road from wexford to gorey but they compacted the snow so much it made them like ice rinks
 
my father was paranoid about snow after 47, he always left a shovel inside the front door of the dwelling house so he could dig himself out the next morning if it snowed, in 82 they used bulldozers to clear the main road from wexford to gorey but they compacted the snow so much it made them like ice rinks
Good point about compacting the snow, whenever I had to clear the local roads of snow with the digger, if you weren’t the first vehicle on the road that morning you’d never get down to the road surface to get a clear scrape at it. Once the surface had hardened, you might as well forget about restoring grip.
 
My old lad remembers 47. Often heard him and my uncles talk about it. My grandad and the workman spent a full day shoveling snow to make a path to thepit of mangles to feed the cattle. They played on the drifts with no ditchs to be seen. The snow came around here in february. Around paddys day there was heavy rain and snow melting creating floods. There was snow in patches still on the ground into may.
At least the poor feckers didn't have to listen about global warming back then!
 
My mother was born in mid April in 1947 in Wexford. The midwife had to climb across snowdrifts that were above ditches to get to the house

Our mother's share a common birthday month at least. Similar story to that and the snow up to the windows.

It was close to May by the time things returned to normal.
 
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