Storm Darragh arrived in the West Country yesterday. causing carnage far and wide. Here is how the Devon and Cornwall section of National Grid Electricity Distribution’s power cut map looked at 4 PM:
Somewhat later, here’s how NGED’s table of regional power outages looked:
77 of the 58,423 properties in the South West without an electricity supply were just up the road from us near Chilla:
By 8:30 PM the NGED power cut map was awash with outages:
while our local area looked like this:
The power cut in Chilla was rather confusingly located in Hatherleigh according to the map!