Power restored to properties after five days due to Storm Amy

Storm Amy caused chaos in Dorset as it left 263 properties without electricity and nationally over 90,000.

1,900 properties were still left without power in the UK on Thursday, 9th October, and it was announced all power had been restored across the remaining properties which had been without power for over 5 days.

The storm stopped locals from visiting the tourist attraction, Brownsea Island and closed roads around Poole Harbour, stopping cars from getting near the water due to the gale force winds.

In the South Coast, the Met Office announced an amber/yellow weather warning and claimed the wind speed reached 60- 65mph, which is the highest it has reached since Storm Eunice in 2022.

I have never seen anything like this in all my time living here, at moments we even felt unsafe as the wind was so strong, the waves were causing floods on the low-level ground, we didn’t know what to expect. – Dave Richmond, Bournemouth property owner

In Ringwood, amid strong winds, a tree toppled and fell on a parked car. There were no casualties. 

In other parts of the UK, however, damages were more severe.

In Glasgow, a building collapsed onto a car, and one man died in a freak accident after being blown off a rooftop in Ireland.