Saturday, November 27, 2021

Traffic chaos in Great Britain
120 truckers are caught in a snowstorm

Storm “Arwen” causes great traffic chaos in Great Britain. While hundreds of trucks are stuck in the snow for hours in England, commuters in Scotland have to do without the train. There are still weather warnings.

Storms and snowfall caused traffic chaos and power outages in thousands of UK homes on Saturday night. On a motorway in North West England, around 120 trucks were trapped in the snow for several hours, as the North West Motorway Police announced on Twitter.

Tens of thousands of homes in the north of England suffered power outages. Utility company Northern Powergrid said 55,000 customers affected, mainly in the North Northumberland and County Durham regions.

Several train connections were interrupted in Scotland. ScotRail encouraged its customers to avoid travel whenever possible. Emergency services reported a large number of operations, for example due to downed trees or damaged roofs. A man was killed in Northern Ireland when his car was struck by a falling tree.

According to the Met Office, the storm called “Arwen” sometimes reached almost 100 miles per hour, the equivalent of almost 160 kilometers per hour. The highest advisory level has now been lifted, but the weather advisories continued to exist on Saturday.