Terrifying moment a mother rescues her newborn baby as hurricane-force winds in Storm Ciaran shatter her bedroom window sending shards of glass towards them. The incident occurred in a hotel room in St Helier.
Mother in Jersey shielded her baby as Storm Ciaran shattered bedroom windowA mother has relived the terrifying moment 102mph Storm Ciaran winds swept through Jersey and smashed her baby's bed room window.
'I went to bed and woke up to the wind as getting louder and louder and it just didn't feel right. I just felt like I needed to get her out and that's when the windows came in,' said Ms O'Reilly.
'I went back into the room and there was a lot of glass all over the room - in her crib, on my bed, all over the floor. Nearly 150,000 homes were left without power and by 4pm on Thursday, around 11,300 properties still had no electricity. A Met Office yellow weather warning is in place in eastern Scotland, with the threat of difficult driving conditions, flooding and delays or cancellations to train and bus services, and a small chance of fast flowing or deep floodwater.
Damage to properties in Jersey meant some residents had to evacuate their homes and seek refuge in a hotel, with one woman saying hailstones 'bigger than a golf ball' had broken her windows. Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: 'Hopefully the worst of it is now easing at it moves away. In Dorset, firefighters evacuated 70 people from 198 caravans at Freshwater Holiday Park in Burton Bradstock, near Bradport, with some being taken to dry land by boat.
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