{"id":38142,"date":"2024-12-08T02:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38142"},"modified":"2024-12-08T02:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:41:43","slug":"power-outages-affect-thousands-and-train-cancellations-in-britain-due-to-storm-dara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/power-outages-affect-thousands-and-train-cancellations-in-britain-due-to-storm-dara\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outages Affect Thousands and Train Cancellations in Britain Due to Storm &#8220;Dara&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A warning was issued for millions in the United Kingdom to stay indoors, as power outages affected thousands and train services were canceled with the &#8220;life-threatening&#8221; alert activated due to Storm &#8220;Dara.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to the British news agency PA Media, the emergency alert came into effect at 1 AM GMT on Saturday for those under the rare red warning issued by the UK Met Office for wind in parts of Wales and South West England.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was the largest use of the warning system, urging people to avoid driving and &#8220;stay indoors as much as possible.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Power was cut to thousands of people in Northern Ireland, England, and Wales as they braced for the storm&#8217;s impact, according to the German news agency DPA.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By 5 AM, the National Grid reported that more than 12,600 buildings were without power in the Midlands and South West of the country, with more than 20,000 homes in Wales also affected.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Storm &#8220;Dara&#8221; had already caused dozens of flights to be canceled at Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol Airport on Friday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warning was issued for millions in the United Kingdom to stay indoors, as power outages affected thousands and train services were canceled with the &#8220;life-threatening&#8221; alert activated due to Storm &#8220;Dara.&#8221; According to the British news agency PA Media, the emergency alert came into effect at 1 AM GMT on Saturday for those under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38143,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions\/38143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}