What’s a cumec, Daddy?

I don’t know, but here’s a picture of 415 of them flowing through Castleconnell. [Update 13 December: that may be only 405 cumec.]

415 cumecs on 12 December 2015

Actually, a cumec is one cubic metre of water per second, which is roughly one ton per second, which is a lot of water. And 415 cumec is the amount that, according to the blatts, the ESB is currently letting down the original course of the Shannon from Parteen Villa Weir; the minimum flow in that channel, as seen in summer, is 10 cumec.

Castleconnell 12 December 2015

Younger trees getting their feet wet

Who’d have guessed?

Below the bridge

Above the bridge

Stormont

Pump

Sandbags

Sandbag Central

Sandbags filled here for distribution

Army engineers

More equipment arriving

Clonlara 11 December 2015

Ardnacrusha headrace, said to take 400 cumec

Errina bridge on the Plassey-Errina Canal

The stop planks seem to be quite effective …

… as there is little water getting down the canal to Clonlara bridge

Park Canal 9 December 2015

Depth gauge at Park Lock

Lock chamber

Full canal upstream