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09/06/2016

How would your area cope with four days of no electricity


On 5 December 2015, Storm Desmond caused unprecedented flooding in Lancaster, knocking out the main electricity substation and cutting supply to 61,000 properties for four days. Mobile phone masts shut down, cash machines and petrol pumps froze, and even gas-fired central heating stopped working due to pumps being interrupted.

The lessons learned from this experience have been collected in a new report from the Royal Academy of Engineering, providing a concrete example of the challenges more frequent extreme weather events could bring to the UK. A must-read for resilience planners and risk managers.

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