A fallen tree has resulted in more than 600 Yorkshire residents losing power on Friday morning amid Storm Eowyn.
Engineers are hopeful the remaining 200 Sheffield households which have endured more than a week without gas during the freezing weather will be reconnected by tonight (Dec 12).
THE fragility of remote living was exposed by the recent Storm Arwen when rural householders were left without power, internet connectivity or mobile phone signal following inhospitable blizzards.
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