How Safe is Your Street from Flooding?

October 14, 2007

I know that this is a really useful service, but I can’t help finding it very bizarre. It is a website where you can check, down to street level, in every Irish County, how many times an area has been flooded, along with details of any available photos, press archives and reports of those floods.

Here’s the link: OPW National Flood Hazard Mapping

Where would we be without the Internet?

Entry Filed under: Ireland. .

2 Comments Add your own

  • 1. nick  |  October 15, 2007 at 10:57 am

    This is a classic example of a really good idea done really badly. almost everything on the site nearly works, but not quite. The popup jpegs launch using an external viewer, the PDFs are scans of cutouts, the reports are scans of faxes, some of the pictures are screenshots of microsoft word. The result is a completely non-indexible web site of frankly third class quality. it’s a real shame - there’s a lot of good stuff in here.

  • 2. Nor  |  October 16, 2007 at 1:03 am

    absolutey fascinating way to frighten a new home owner half to death!!! love it

Leave a Comment

Required

Required, hidden

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed


A blog by Michael Nugent

Welcome to my blog about living in the maddest country on earth. Please feel free to leave a comment.

I also write Bionic Bohs, a blog about following Bohemians football club in the 1970s.

a

Feeds

Recent Comments

Most Popular Recently

Calendar

October 2007
M T W T F S S
« Sep   Nov »
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Archives

Links

Bionic Bohs

As mentioned above, if you like Irish football and/or cultural nostalgia, I also write Bionic Bohs, a blog about following Bohs in the 1970s.