WESTERN Power dealt with 1,400 incidents and restored power to more than 93,000 properties in the 24 hours from Monday morning during Storm Imogen.

’Following advanced weather predictions, we were prepared for its impact,’ said a WPD spokesman.

Teams from South Wales, West Midlands and East Midlands arrived in the South West on Monday evening, which was the worst affected area, to assist with the final restorations and repairs.

’Extra customer service staff were also on hand to advise customers, answering almost 21,000 calls in an average of around two seconds per call, while also proactively making contact with over 1,000 vulnerable customers on our Priority Service Register,’ the spokesman continued.

’Our website also came into its own handling over 100,000 visits – the vast majority to access the live power cut information available on our outages map. Updates were also provided via our Twitter account @wpduk.’

WPD’s Helicopter Unit was also busy once the weather had eased, deploying craft to locate network damage in the north Devon and Cornwall areas, aiming to speed up repairs and power restoration times.