An expert has said that the internet age has meant people were better prepared for Storm Eunice than they were for the Great Storm of 1987.
Widespread warnings issued online in advance should be “a mitigating factor against people dying” compared with 35 years ago, when information was not so widely available.
A total of 18 people were killed in the notorious storm in 1987, the worst of which hit in the early hours of the morning on October 16.
