Trees still block roads and scores of people remain without power or water almost a week on from storm
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inda Williams, 86, has been without heating, lighting and a working phone for the best part of five days. She is trying to keep warm by layering up and she picks her way around her home in the remote Cornish village of New Mill with old battery lamps from her days of caravanning.
“I think it’s safe to say that we’re in a bit of a state,” said Williams, a retired council accounts assistant. “But it can’t go on for ever … can it?”
Storm Goretti brought chaos to the far south-west of Britain last week with gusts as high as 99mph bringing down hundreds of trees and 61.8mm of rain adding to the danger and misery.
