Power cuts in East Yorkshire

Gusts with speeds of up to fifty five miles per hour cause a blackout in East Yorkshire leaving thousands of households without electricity.

As per CE Electric which is the electricity supplier responsible for the north east approximately three thousand households suffered the power outage.

Even at six in the evening there were five hundred households which still hadn’t got their power back especially those areas covered by the postcodes HU11 and HU17. This included Beverley and the adjacent areas.

A spokesperson for CE Electric, assured everyone that an emergency team had been dispatched to the area and that they were working to rectify the damages that had been caused to the overhead power cables. The spokesperson added that extra manpower had been drafted to ensure the problem was dealt with as fast as possible.

A forecaster at the meteorological office, Dave Elliott, revealed that the power outages had been as a result of trees falling on the overhead power lines. The forecaster added that the speed of the gust was 55mph which was quite common during the winter season but unusual at a time like this.

Mr. Elliot explained that the problem lay in the fact that the trees are covered in leaves in the months of summer, so there is a much larger surface area for the wind to hit which makes it easy for them to fall during a time like this. He added that it was the reason that during the early summer months as well as in spring that more trees succumb to the wind.

www.ceelectricuk.com