{"id":63497,"date":"2026-10-25T21:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-killed-by-falling-tree-as-storm-boelo-leaves-160000-properties-without-power\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:41:19","slug":"man-killed-by-falling-tree-as-storm-boelo-leaves-160000-properties-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-killed-by-falling-tree-as-storm-boelo-leaves-160000-properties-without-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by falling tree as Storm Boelo leaves 160,000 properties without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During Storm Boelo and the earlier Storm Austen, which hit the UK on Friday, 838,700 properties across the country faced power cuts, according to the ENA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wind gusts peaked on Sunday morning at 85mph in Machrihanish, in Argyll and Bute, and 84mph in both Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides, and Capel Curig in north Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An amber wind warning issued by the Met Office was in place until 21:00 on Sunday across Scotland and parts of northern England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A yellow warning that also covered other areas of the north of England, including Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as well as parts of the East and West Midlands and North Wales, also expired at 21:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Office urged people to &#8220;stay indoors as much as possible&#8221;, adding: &#8220;If you do go out, try not to walk, or shelter, close to buildings and trees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The strongest gusts have continued to spread eastwards across the UK on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cxdd8gr1vje0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Storm Boelo and the earlier Storm Austen, which hit the UK on Friday, 838,700 properties across the country faced power cuts, according to the ENA. Wind gusts peaked on Sunday morning at 85mph in Machrihanish, in Argyll and Bute, and 84mph in both Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides, and Capel Curig in north Wales. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[17215,1728,325,2491,417,550,7682,1402,2635],"class_list":["post-63497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-boelo","tag-falling","tag-killed","tag-leaves","tag-man","tag-power","tag-properties","tag-storm","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63499,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63497\/revisions\/63499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}