24 hours and counting - customers in West Midlands waiting to get electric back on after Storm Darragh chaos

An estimated 36 customers in the TF11 postcode at Weston under Lizard and Blymhill to the east of Telford should have their power back on by 6pm today (Sunday)

The National Grid power cuts website says the incident was reported at 2.04pm on Saturday and at one point involved some 347 customers but they have managed to reduce that number.

It was put down to a fault on the overhead network and came at a time when trees were falling left, right and centre around the county.

At 12.22pm on Sunday some 311 properties had their power restored, leaving 36 without power.

A reader told the Shropshire Star that they “were without power for 24 hours and there are still 36 properties now into day two of having no power.”

National Grid say its teams have “worked tirelessly to restore supplies to 1.3m homes and businesses affected by Storm Darragh.  

“As of 2pm, 118,922 properties are without power and we have restored power to 1,348,063 customers.”

At 3.10pm there were a reported 115 power cuts involving 5,547 customers in Shropshire and another 47 incidents involving 2,749 customers in Powys.

Roisin Quinn, Field Operations Director at National Grid, said: “We would like to thank customers for their patience while waiting for power to be restored.

“I’d also like to thank our staff for their unwavering efforts to restore power to our customers.

“We have teams who have been working long hours away from their own homes to get the lights back on in challenging conditions and we are grateful to them for that.”