Ireland Reckons With Damage From Its Deadliest Storm for Decades<br />Officials said hundreds of thousands of people in the country remained without power on Tuesday, after the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia tore roofs off buildings in Ireland’s largest cities, Dublin<br />and Cork, and pushed ocean water over sea walls on its west coast.<br />Ireland has little experience dealing with such powerful storms,<br />and the national weather service, Met Eireann, said Ophelia was the most powerful storm recorded that far east in the Atlantic.<br />We’re working to restore." Katherine Walshe, the operational planning and emergency manager at Irish Water, said 20,000 households were without water, but<br />that number could leap to 310,000 if power were not restored by Tuesday afternoon.<br />17, 2017<br />DUBLIN — Ireland dived into a cleanup effort on Tuesday after one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the<br />northeastern Atlantic tore across the island, killing at least three people and leaving a trail of destruction.<br />Tuesday’s Metro"Red October"#tomorrowspaperstoday#bbcpapers(via @hendopolis) pic.twitter.com/JobWw6Gudd Perhaps the storm’s most notable effect on Britain was<br />that its powerful winds carried dust from Sahara sandstorms and Iberian wildfires north, turning the sky over much of the country a rusty orange.<br />Cork City Council crews out since early this morning clearing trees #Ophelia pic.twitter.com/9Iiwu1MF5r Mr. Varadkar told RTE<br />that the "full resources of the state" would be deployed in the cleanup operation, and he advised continued caution.
