The floods have claimed their second victim.
A womans body has been found in a flooded basement on Parnell Road at around eleven o’clock last night and a body found during the search for missing Garda Ciarán Jones – who was swept away in floods in Wicklow yesterday – has been retrieved from the water. The remains have yet to be formally identified – but the search has been stood down.
Across the city a major clean-up is underway after extraordinary scenes when a month of rain fell in just six hours.
Car dragged down the overfowing Dodder River in Milltown
Scroll down for the following updates:
- Video from Dundrum Town Centre – Closed today after serious flooding
- Video from a Dublin Bus taking on water during last night’s storm
- Images from last night and this morning
- Traffic and travel update links
River Dodder at Ballsbridgebr
A record amount of rain fell on Dublin last night – the city’s streets were hit with a month’s rain in just six hours…This morning; water levels have receded, roads have reopened and debris is being cleared.
The Dundrum Town Centre which was the scene of flooding last night, will remain closed today, while clean-up operations get underway.
Click on the photo below for exclusive video footage from our reporter Louise Byrne – inside the centre.
Cars have been abandoned and ruined, properties damaged and rescue services stretched to the limit. Dublin City Council invoked a major city alert at 8pm as commuters struggled to get home and rescue workers struggled to sandbag low lying areas to offer some protection against the rising water levels.
Scroll below for snaps of some of the scenes of devastation, for video of a Dublin Bus being flooded in action, for links to transport and travel sites which have the latest updates for this morning’s commute, and for a heart-warming shot of Coast Guard volunteers bringing a rather unimpressed ‘baby Alexander’ home through the floods.
- Twitter Pics from Dundrum Town Centre
“Dublin City Council’s Major Emergency Plan has been activated at 8.00 pm on 24th October due to flooding caused by severe rainfall. Council staff including Dublin Fire Brigade staff have been sent to to different parts of the city to help deal with the flooding. For emergency call please call 999 or Dublin City Council’s afterhours emergency number 679 6186.”
Evacuations and sandbagging operations were carried out overnight with Gardai and Dublin City Fire-brigade working flat out and the Army on standby as the City Council invoked it’s Major Emergency Plan. The volunteer Coast Guard service has been helping to rescue stranded motorists and house-holders; and were even put on standby to bring boats as far as the M50 to help with evacuations.
‘Baby Alexander’ made it safely home overnight thanks to the efforts of Coast Guard volunteers who were working to the max through the night.
Baby Alexander
Images like that above of cars underwater, and floodwaters pouring from Dundrum Town Centre, are still flooding social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Tallaght has also been severely hit, while a spokesperson for Dublin City Council told 98FM News last night that they were receiving flood alerts from all over the city.
Our own Dave Moore blogged a collection of social media snaps which were sent to him last night at the worst of the floods. Click below:
The rainfall that deluged the city since early evening finally ceased overnight but with flood-waters continuing to rise, the major concern now is the possible affects of high-tide again today, with the rivers Dodder and Camac already running high.
Out on the roads – fogged windscreens, stranded overheated cars, and severely reduced traffic flow were the order of the night. Dublin endured the commute from hell with heavy rain and flooding creating appalling road conditions, with reports of minor crashes and dozens of breakdowns across the city. For the latest AA traffic updates for Dublin click on the photo above.
Click below for dramatic footage of flooding on a Dublin Bus:
AA Roadwatch is advising drivers to slow down when driving through surface water, increase your braking distance and use dipped headlights in rain.
Dublin Bus and LUAS services were also affected, and the DART line was brought to a standstill. Check out the latest DART updates by clicking on the picture below:
Click on the photo of the Luas to get all the latest Luas updates:
Check Dublin Bus route updates by clicking the photo below:
And for the latest weather forecast, check out:
Earlier traffic updates from Monday:
On the Northside of the city, James larkin Road is closed inbound and there is no right turn from Watermill Road onto the Coast Road.
There is also flooding on the N1/Swords Road outbound before Santry Avenue.
On the Southside The N11/Stillorgan Rd is flooded at Fosters Ave and conditions are very poor on Anglesea Rd approaching the N11 and Cornelscourt Heavy flooding on the N7/Nass Road between J3 Citywest and J4 Rathcoole. There are also reports of flooding on Seapoint Ave in Monkstown, Dodder Road and The grand Canal at Dolphin’s Barn.
There is also flooding on the N81/Tallaght Bypass at the Glenview R/A & between Old Bawn Rd Junction and Belgard Road. The N81 is impassable between Jobstown & Citywest and at the Cookstown Industrial Estate. Flooding on N4 Lucan Rd at Palmerstown Bypass.
On the M50: There is flooding northbound at J6 Blanchardstown and excess water southbound at J14 Leopardstown. There are delays northbound on the M50 from J10 Ballymount to J7 Lucan, expecially northbound exiting at J9 Red Cow. Southbound it’s slow from J17 the M11 to Bray North on the M11.
For more, check out:
http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/AA-Roadwatch/Dublin.aspx
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