STORM AHEAD
Shocking moment entire ROOF is ripped off home in 90mph Storm Malik gales
THIS is the shocking moment a house lost its WHOLE ROOF while Storm Malik battered the country with 90mph gales.
Toney Adoniadis filmed as the top of the home started flapping about before a gust of wind picked it up and brought it down tumbling onto the road in one piece.
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Toney joked: “Here’s me worried about a tile that blew off my roof.”
The area around the house in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear was cordoned off after the freak incident on Saturday.
There were no reported injuries due to the roof blowing away and tiles falling onto the pavement below.
Storms Malik and Corrie have left around 7,000 homes in northern England and 9,000 in Scotland without power as Gale force winds reached speeds of 80mph.
And the mighty gusts of Storm Malik killed three people over the weekend.
Forecasters had issued yellow and amber warnings for high winds across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England throughout Saturday.
A nine-year-old boy was crushed to death by a falling tree in Staffordshire on Saturday as winds topped 90mph.
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A woman, 60, was also killed after a tree was blown over during gale-force winds in Aberdeen, while a man, 32, died after a lorry overturned on the M74.
And the devastation is far from over, with yellow weather warnings in force today.
The Met Office has urged Brits to take care when out during Storm Corrie, particularly those living on the east coast of England.
The wind warning covers just north of Norwich all the way up to the village of Seahouses in Northumberland.
Gusts will reach top speeds of 60mph, with "large and dangerous waves" and "injuries and danger to life from flying debris" expected.
Travel disruption is also likely, as well as power outages and damage to buildings causing tiles to be blown from roofs.
NO POWER
Thousands of households were left without power across the north of England and Scotland at the weekend, with a staggering 37,000 still in the dark.
Hospitality worker Clare Stirling-Turnbull, 47, of Powburn, Northumberland, has been without heating and electricity since 9am on Saturday.
To make matters worse, one of the children in her family of six has Covid and is currently isolating.
She said: "So we can't go to relatives' houses. We have no electric, no heating or hot water - we do have a wood burner so can heat one room."
Several schools in Aberdeenshire announced they will shut or delay opening today as they battle power and heating problems.
Storm Corrie moved eastwards across Scotland on Sunday and is set to push across the North Sea throughout Monday.
Winds of 92mph were recorded in Stornoway, on the Western Isles, in the early hours of this morning, which forecasters have described as "exceptionally strong".
Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said: "There is no wonder there were significant impacts such as power outages and damage to buildings.
"It is very unfortunate that things were worse than that for some people."
'EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG' WINDS
Sky Sports presenter Keith Downie was "badly shaken" after a tree crushed his new BMW in Newcastle, while high winds ripped the roof from a terraced house in nearby Gateshead.
Elsewhere, a woman had to be cut from a car in Greater Manchester, a man in Staffordshire was rushed to hospital after being injured by a falling tree, and an HGV appeared to have been blown over on the M90 near Edinburgh.
On top of the winds, there is a yellow warning for ice in force in northern Scotland.
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Tumbling temperatures could spark snowfall in hilly areas until 10am today thanks to a storm which brought historic amounts of the white stuff to the US last week.
GMB weather presenter Laura Tobin said: "It will bring wet and windy weather to our shores in the UK but it won't be bringing with the snowfall that we've seen over there because it warms up as it heads across the Atlantic."
Mr Burkill added: "It is not just the case of strong winds causing problems - there is also the ice risk across parts of Scotland through to the early part of Monday morning.
"There will be some wintry showers. Emergency services are trying to get out, utility companies are trying to make repairs and so the icy conditions are not going to make that easier for them."
A further yellow warning for wind is in place from 6am tomorrow which could also lead to "disruption" in north east Scotland.
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However, despite the wild weather, the mercury will begin to climb well above the January average of 5C in the coming days.
Temperatures will hit 10C today before peaking at 13C tomorrow and Wednesday.
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