Storm Katie heaps miseries on Easter holiday crowd in Britain

Storm Katie heaps miseries on Easter holiday crowd in Britain as flights were cancelled and pilots battled to land planes while police warned motorists to remain indoors as the storm brought chaos to transport networks. Passengers narrated stories of "scary" aborted landings that left people in tears when planes tried to land at the runways at Gatwick and Heathrow and had to get diverted to other airports because of winds of up to 106mph that battered the south of the country.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 28 March 2016.

Those who were motoring home from the Easter weekend were advised to delay their journeys until later following issue of weather warnings for London and the South East. As per reports, 900 engineers had been at work to restore power to more than 80,000 homes across the south of England after the strong winds caused outages across Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Wiltshire and the Isle of Wight.
As to Heathrow Airport, as many as 61 flights were cancelled and 20 were diverted, while the corresponding figures for Gatwick Airport were 26 flights cancelled and 23 diverted.
London Fire Service had to deal with 110 incidents that included collapsed chimneys and scaffolding while the Port of Dover suspended shipping movements because of the severe weather conditions as there were 29 flood warnings and 148 flood alerts across the country - mainly in the South. In Staffordshire, Storm Katie resulted in snowfall.


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