Volunteers did their best to get hot drinks to people who struggled to leave their houses. Bottled water was being given out at the town’s middle school. The Angel Inn pub had become a refuge centre and had managed, with a generator, to give hot soup to more than 250 people on Sunday.
Mather said he was very proud of the community response. The other concern is that a lot of the phone signal is down so a lot of people are going to struggle to call for help.” “We are under a lot of pressure here and we’re very concerned about older people. Mark Mather, who represents the market town of Wooler on Northumberland county council, said most households still had no electricity. One badly affected area was north Northumberland. By Monday, 29,000 households were still without power. The electricity network operator Northern Powergrid said the storm had caused the most extensive damage to the network in 20 years, initially leaving 240,000 households across north-east England, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire without power. In some areas of the country the damage is some of the worst seen since 2005.” “Engineers are continuing to uncover snapped electricity poles, downed wires and other complex faults. Helicopters and drones were also being used to identify and assess damage. The Met Office said Shap in Cumbria, north-west England, recorded the lowest temperature of the season so far at -8.7C (16.34F).Ĭontinuing snowfall in some areas made access for engineers more difficult, a spokesperson for ENA said. It came as parts of northern England had their coldest night of autumn so far, with temperatures plummeting to below zero.
More than a million homes lost power with 155,000 nationwide still waiting to be reconnected on Monday afternoon. The Energy Networks Association (ENA) said damage caused by Friday’s storm was some of the worst since 2005. More than 150,000 homes across the UK were facing a fourth night without power after Storm Arwen wreaked havoc, bringing down trees and electricity lines.
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