As engineers worked to re-establish electricity, the Scottish Government warned that we have to stay until the weekend until the electricity supply is back. searching was in progress for five men who were hill walking in the Cairngorms which was strike by winds of 165mph at the height of the storms yesterday. The men have not been seen since Wednesday.
Scottish Power said today that it had reconnected more than 18,000 customers who had lost power because of over 100 individual faults. Scottish Hyrdo said around 50,000 of their customers had been left without electricity.
Today temperatures are expected to plummet with blizzards, snowdrifts and black ice expected in the north, and continuing wind and rain in the south.
However, forecasters expected some respite, with the worst of the winds confined to north-east Scotland and the Shetland Isles.
The flaming £2million wind turbine was in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Witnesses said its blades were locked at the time, because the National Grid would be unable to cope with a sudden power surge.
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