Trees down and 600 homes without power but Shropshire misses the worst of Storm Freya
Some 600 homes were left without power and trees were felled but Shropshire was left largely undamaged by Storm Freya over the weekend.
On Sunday evening in Springfield, Bridgnorth just before 10pm, fire fighters in the town were called to reports of an unsafe car port damaged in the wind.
It involved four metres of plastic sheeting and metal poles, and crews made the are safe.
Other incidents were reported. including a tree striking a power line and 600 homes being left without power.
Michael Clarke for Western Power Distribution said: "We had around 600 properties lose power all around the Fordhall Farm area, but the farm itself wasn't affected."
A conifer tree was blown onto a power line near the farm at about 9.30pm on Sunday, but the farm itself was unaffected.
Mr Clarke said that all but 50 homes had power back within three minutes when electricity was re-routed, and that at about 10.30 eight houses remained without.
The last eight houses got their power back around 11.30, when the tree was removed from the power line.
Nationally Storm Freya battered the country with gales, heavy rain and snow that caused widespread travel disruption.
Some wet and windy weather was expected to linger into Monday morning as the storm moves into the North Sea.
A yellow warning for wind lifted at 6am after gusts of up to nearly 80mph whipped a large swathe of the country on Sunday, with downed trees and debris causing power cuts and affecting travel.
The stormy conditions were expected to have eased by rush hour on Monday morning, although some rain and gusty winds and some snow will continue.
More than a dozen flood alerts are in place across the south-west, as well as two flood warnings, ahead of a fresh band of rain.
Met Office forecaster Emma Smith said: “By six o’clock on Monday the centre of Storm Freya will be out over the North Sea.
“There will still be outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow just clipping the coast by Newcastle and southern Scotland.
“Thereafter into Monday there will be plenty of sunshine around, then we will get a band of showery rain moving in from the south-west.
“That’s going to be moving across Devon and Cornwall first and moving into Wales and Northern Ireland through the morning.
“By the afternoon it will be into the Midlands and towards London with some hail and thunder. Northern and eastern areas will stay sunniest and it will be quite blustery as well, with some gale-force gusts in the west.”
