Storm Isha’s 100-mph path of destruction: Cars are crushed beneath falling trees, roofs are ripped off, 70,000 houses are left without power, and two men are killed in collisions – as Britain braces for another storm Jocelyn tomorrow Storm Isha has left a trail of devastation in its wake, with 100 mph winds overnight crushing automobiles under fallen trees, ripping roofs off buildings, and killing an 84-year-old man. Isha disrupted the UK’s electricity and transport networks, leaving thousands of people without power.
Fallen trees have had an impact on transportation. According to Traffic Scotland, portions of the M9 and M74 were closed overnight, and the A1 southbound was closed at Thorntonloch due to an overturned lorry. An 84-year-old man was murdered in Scotland Friday night when his Hyundai automobile collided with a fallen tree on the A905, Beancross Road near Grangemouth, about 11.45 p.m. According to police, he was pronounced dead at the spot, while the other occupants of the vehicle were unharmed.
In Northern Ireland, a man in his 60s was killed in a road incident involving two vans and a fallen tree in Limavady, County Londonderry, on Sunday night, according to the Northern Ireland Police Service. The man in the second van, a Citroen Berlingo, was brought to the hospital for treatment. Officers from the incident Investigation Unit are requesting that anyone who witnessed the incident or saw the vehicles on Broad Road before to the crash contact them. As floodwaters swept through the towns of Appleby in Cumbria, haunting sirens wailed.
High winds forced the closure of the Tay Road Bridge, the M48 Severn Bridge, and the A66 in Durham and Cumbria between the A1(M) and the M6, while the Humber Bridge, the A19 Tees Flyover, and the A628 Woodhead Pass in Derbyshire were among the portions restricted to heavy vehicles. Following a ‘tough night’ in Scotland, Network Rail has cancelled all passenger and freight trains across the country until they can check rail routes and repair storm damage.
It comes as the Met Office warns that a new storm, Jocelyn, will hit the UK from tomorrow until Wednesday.
