High winds continue as nearly a million without power | Global News Avenue

There are nearly 1 million houses in the UK and Ireland. After the Iowen storm brings a speed of up to 114 miles per hour (183 km/h), travel is still severely disturbed.

A tree in Ireland hit a car, causing a man to die. Scottish and northern Ireland caused large -scale property losses, and trains, planes and ferries were delayed or canceled.

Although the most violent gust of gusts have passed, it is expected that strong winds will continue. The rainfall in England and Wales on weekends may be as high as 80 mm.

In some areas of the United Kingdom, the yellow warning of rain, wind, snow and ice, and a warning and alert issuance in southern England, northern Wales, and western Scotland.

In Ireland, 625,000 households and corporate power outages still have 625,000 households and enterprises on Friday night.

About 138,000 people have no water, and Ireland Water said that this number may increase due to the power outage of the processing plant and pumping station.

About 214,000 real estate in Northern Ireland, about 106,000 real estate in Scotland, and about 20,000 real estate in northwestern England are also disconnected.

Northern Ireland Electric Power Corporation said that all affected devices may take up to 10 days to re -connect.

The infrastructure department stated that it takes a few days to evaluate the loss, and more than 1,800 pouring trees, branches and other fragments have blocked the road.

Northern Ireland Education Minister Paul Givan said that 60 schools reported that “some buildings were severely damaged” and officials were trying to determine which schools would not be able to open on Monday.

Although the strongest wind has passed, it is expected that the storm will still bring more than 80 miles/h (128 km/h) gusts to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Scotrail said that engineers will work on Friday to clear the trees and other fragments on the railway, but “the overhead line is severely damaged” and needs to be repaired before the train is running.

The company said that Saturday’s service will continue to be “seriously affected”, and passengers should not expect the train to operate before 12:00 in the Standard time of Glinden.

Edinburgh Airport said that Saturday will still operate under “challenging conditions”, and the interruption on Friday will have a chain effect on the services of the next few days.

Glasgow and Belfaster International said that passengers should continue to inquire about the latest travel information to the airline before travel.

Calmac, the main ferry operator on the west coast of Scotland, is still disturbed. Although most of the ferry routes in the Irish Sea (including the Ferry route of the Irish ferry company and the Stena Line, these two companies have canceled the services on Friday) seem to be operating on Friday). Essence Can run normally.

The National Railway said that wind and rain will affect some services in northern England until Saturday.

Passengers who are advised to take the Avanti West COAST flight should not go north of Preston, and passengers taking LNER flights should not go north of York.

Mark Jones lived on the Scottish border, Corddrop, and he described the storm that Iowen attacked his area like a “earthquake”.

On Friday morning, he saw that his ripple iron garage was lifted from the ground and tilted into a forest land.

“I didn’t feel seriously panic, because I had a distance of about 30 feet with the garage, and the garage just rose and tilted quite steadily,” he recalled.

“I just think the word ‘storm’ is too mild for us to see here. Only hurricanes can do this.”

Liam Downs is an electrician of Kedros on the north side of Claid Bay. He has been driving back and forth along the coast to help the local community, including clearing the trees on the road.

When he went to the nearby Rosney to visit a client, he saw the “about 10 trees” falling down in 10 minutes, “completely blocked our single road.”

He said: “When we drove along the coast earlier, the waves surged on the road, and my truck changed from the correct lane to the side of the road.” The big truck. “

Six warnings in the UK still exist:

• On Friday midnight to Saturday 15:00 on Saturdays will have a strong yellow warning in most areas of Scotland
• On Friday midnight to Saturday 11:00, most of Scotland has ice and snow yellow warnings
• On Friday 19:00 to Saturday 10:00 Northern Ireland appeared ice and snow yellow warning
• Saturday from 03:00 to 10:00 central regions, eastern England and southeast, and Wales will have freezing yellow warning
• On Sunday 08:00 to 15:00, the southeast of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southwestern Scotland will appear windy yellow warning
• From 08:00 on Sunday to Monday 06:00, rainfall yellow warning will occur in Wales, southern and central England and central regions

The Environment Bureau has issued a warning of flood warnings to the area around the Tir River around the Salzbury and the Tir River in the Solzibry Plain.

Some areas of Gloste, Reading and Luton and the southern coastal areas have issued less serious flood alerts.

The town of El and Trun, the Ernhe River in the west of Perth, the Obelle River near the Stras Okir, and the Churchill barrier of the Oakney Islands also released the flood warning. At the same time, it also released along the way. Flood alert. West coast.

The Ministry of Natural Resources of Wales has issued a flood warning to the area around the Dimi River near Rexum and the town of Polchley.

George Wright’s supplementary report.