Severe Weather Warning: Code Level Red currently in place until 15.00 noon on Friday 2nd March 2018
The Council’s Severe Weather Team met today at 11am and the focus of attention is now being concentrated on the Council’s response following the Code Level Red warning period.
The Council will carry out a further salting of all priority routes today at 1am following which all Council operations will be stood down during the Blizzard conditions.
The Council’s out of hours emergency number – 1890 923 948 will be activated from 3pm today and will remain in place until Monday 5th March at 9.30am.
***During the Red Alert period and depending on conditions, the Council’s Emergency services will of necessity be restricted to responding to life threatening situations. In many cases the Council may not be able to respond at all, depending on our ability to get to the location, the safety of our staff and the extent of snow removal involved.***
The key message to the public during this severe weather alert is to remain indoors.
