Originally posted by Dartmoor Dave
Ophelia was very mild here compared to what you got in Ireland. I hope you and yours came through it all unscathed.
Thank you for your concern, actually where I live came off very lightly, I'm on the west (Atlantic) coast of Kerry and we usually get hammered but what was left of the eye passed up along the west coast and it seems that areas further away from the eye got more of a pasting particularly along the east coast side.
It looks like this new storm due Friday/Saturday could hit us more as its coming from the usual direction and there will be a very high tide, living on the west coast you kind of get used to them, we design for wind speeds of 51m/sec whereas over on the other side, say around Dublin, its 44m/sec, the roofing manual calls for all sorts of fancy nailing patterns for roof tiles, like nail one miss two nail one etc, we just nail everything and it stays put, well hopefully it does anyway.
CD