British engineers are scrambling to restore electricity to thousands of homes in northwestern England after flooding knocked out power supplies across the region.
Storm Desmond dumped
record levels of rain on northern England and Scotland over the
weekend, flooding areas of Cumbria and Lancashire counties and prompting
authorities to call in the armed forces to help evacuate people.
The waters inundated neighborhoods, train lines and sports grounds, and knocked out electricity to more than 60,000 homes.
By
Monday morning, most of the supply was restored, with only 2,957 homes
still cut off, according to power company Electricity North West.
Engineers, working with emergency services, were using boats to try to restore service, said the company.
"We
want to reassure our customers in Lancaster and Cumbria that we are
doing everything we possibly can to access our substations, assess the
damage caused by severe flooding, and restore supplies," said Mark
Williamson, operations director for Electricity North West.
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