Some 20,000 customers in Wales are still waiting for power to be restored after the storm.
Storm Darragh, the fourth named storm of this season, left damage in many parts of Wales, including here in Blackwood in Caerphilly county
Ward said people were going to die "not directly because of the storm, because of the lack of electricity, the lack of heat and then lack of food". According to National Grid, there were almost 14,000 homes in mid and south Wales still without power on Tuesday morning, while Scottish Power said there were still 4,000 outages in mid and north Wales on Monday night.
"I'm only just coping because I've got a log burner in one room but the rest of the house is freezing." "We're eating cold food as well because we don't have gas and we've lost all the food in our fridge and our freezer.In Llanbadrig, Anglesey, a wind turbine was badly damaged during the storm
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