Thousands of homes are facing a weekend without power as food vans are dispatched to the worst-hit areas in the wake of Storm Otto.
About 2,000 homes were still without on Saturday morning after Storm Otto caused powercuts across parts of the UK.while trains and flights were cancelled and roads blocked by overturned lorries in northern England.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said it had restored power to around 41,000 homes since the storm struck and hopes to reconnect those still without power by the end of Saturday.SSEN said it has sent food vans to the main areas still cut off from supply, and they will serve food and drink from 8am on Saturday.
Gusts of 83mph were recorded in Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire, while wind speed exceeded 70mph across much of Yorkshire and Northumberland. On Friday morning, a man was taken to hospital in a serious condition after a tree fell on a street in Sheffield.A spokesperson said: “A man in his 50s was injured and was taken to hospital in serious condition. A property nearby was also damaged and structural engineers are at the scene.”
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