Ireland Reckons With Damage From Its Deadliest Storm for Decades
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Ireland Reckons With Damage From Its Deadliest Storm for Decades
Officials said hundreds of thousands of people in the country remained without power on Tuesday, after the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia tore roofs off buildings in Ireland’s largest cities, Dublin
and Cork, and pushed ocean water over sea walls on its west coast.
Ireland has little experience dealing with such powerful storms,
and the national weather service, Met Eireann, said Ophelia was the most powerful storm recorded that far east in the Atlantic.
We’re working to restore." Katherine Walshe, the operational planning and emergency manager at Irish Water, said 20,000 households were without water, but
that number could leap to 310,000 if power were not restored by Tuesday afternoon.
17, 2017
DUBLIN — Ireland dived into a cleanup effort on Tuesday after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the
northeastern Atlantic tore across the island, killing at least three people and leaving a trail of destruction.
Tuesday’s Metro"Red October"#tomorrowspaperstoday#bbcpapers(via @hendopolis) pic.twitter.com/JobWw6Gudd Perhaps the storm’s most notable effect on Britain was
that its powerful winds carried dust from Sahara sandstorms and Iberian wildfires north, turning the sky over much of the country a rusty orange.
Cork City Council crews out since early this morning clearing trees #Ophelia pic.twitter.com/9Iiwu1MF5r Mr. Varadkar told RTE
that the "full resources of the state" would be deployed in the cleanup operation, and he advised continued caution.
Officials said hundreds of thousands of people in the country remained without power on Tuesday, after the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia tore roofs off buildings in Ireland’s largest cities, Dublin
and Cork, and pushed ocean water over sea walls on its west coast.
Ireland has little experience dealing with such powerful storms,
and the national weather service, Met Eireann, said Ophelia was the most powerful storm recorded that far east in the Atlantic.
We’re working to restore." Katherine Walshe, the operational planning and emergency manager at Irish Water, said 20,000 households were without water, but
that number could leap to 310,000 if power were not restored by Tuesday afternoon.
17, 2017
DUBLIN — Ireland dived into a cleanup effort on Tuesday after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the
northeastern Atlantic tore across the island, killing at least three people and leaving a trail of destruction.
Tuesday’s Metro"Red October"#tomorrowspaperstoday#bbcpapers(via @hendopolis) pic.twitter.com/JobWw6Gudd Perhaps the storm’s most notable effect on Britain was
that its powerful winds carried dust from Sahara sandstorms and Iberian wildfires north, turning the sky over much of the country a rusty orange.
Cork City Council crews out since early this morning clearing trees #Ophelia pic.twitter.com/9Iiwu1MF5r Mr. Varadkar told RTE
that the "full resources of the state" would be deployed in the cleanup operation, and he advised continued caution.