Don't make unnecessary journeys

December 6, 2015 10:37 AM

Ireland is having a spot of weather, as Teresa Mannion reports. Her coverage of storm Desmond went instantly viral, earneding a remix from Super Céilí as well as numerous homages. Skip to 1:30 on the main link if you like, but I kind of enjoy the slow burn of it.
posted by Iteki (16 comments total)

As to why people might be in the water? Great surfing in Ireland even better in the storm or just because you think you're gas and are going to live forever.
posted by Iteki at 10:44 AM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

That child is a lot cuter than the dude without the shirt.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 10:46 AM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

A thing to tell your grandchildren about -- assuming you're still able to have any after the double shock of hitting that cold water from that height feet first.
posted by jamjam at 10:57 AM on December 6, 2015

First video link won't play in FireFox.
posted by Bringer Tom at 12:10 PM on December 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

I'd dance to that Super Céilí remix.
posted by benito.strauss at 1:07 PM on December 6, 2015 [3 favorites]

First video link won't play in FireFox.

It worked in my up-to-date Firefox on Windows 10, but didn't in my slightly older Firefox on a slightly older Fedora. I'm starting to see more and more web videos with mime-type application/x-too-fancy-for-you these days, if that's the same problem you're seeing.
posted by traveler_ at 1:40 PM on December 6, 2015

I wonder how her newscasts are when she is not in the middle of a howling downpour.
posted by SLC Mom at 2:31 PM on December 6, 2015

My FireFox is up to date but it is on Windows XP, so that's probably the problem. Still not a compatibility issue I'd want to have with a website I was trying to promote.
posted by Bringer Tom at 2:35 PM on December 6, 2015

It would be even better mashed up with this and a bit of this.
posted by markkraft at 3:12 PM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

Storrm Desmond has done a number on my home town, almost exactly six years after the last time a storm did a number there. I haven't been directly effected by either, but it's heartbreaking, the town had only really started to recover from the 2009 floods. Today I've been mostly retweeting ways to help and looking at pictures of puppies.

Teresa was rather awesome though.
posted by Helga-woo at 4:07 PM on December 6, 2015 [2 favorites]

Here delivery reminds me of one of my favorite poets: John Giorno.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 5:40 PM on December 6, 2015

I was expecting something like this.
posted by unliteral at 6:13 PM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]

My kids just told me my laughing at this was racist. I guess they are learning something at school.
posted by C.A.S. at 12:35 AM on December 7, 2015

This storm broke previous UK records for most rain in a 24 hour period with Honister in Cumbria clocking up 341mm. The devastation is widespread, but one side effect was the appearance of the longest single drop waterfall in the UK at Malham Cove for the first time in living memory, as witnessed by Stuart and Oscar the retriever.
posted by asok at 5:19 AM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

My kids just told me my laughing at this was racist. I guess they are learning something at school.

Or you live in South Park.
posted by the bricabrac man at 9:25 AM on December 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

I wonder how her newscasts are when she is not in the middle of a howling downpour.

Here she is doing a reprise for charity.
posted by night_train at 7:51 AM on December 19, 2015 [1 favorite]