on the day of the landfall, an approximate 25,000 homes in southern england were without electricity after electricity pylons were damaged by the storm. same day, the german states of brandenburg, saxony and saxony-anhalt were hit by a massive power cut. 52,000 homes were without energy, according to local utility "envia". the german district siegen-wittgenstein had issued a state of emergency, with schools remaining closed on friday, 19 january, and roads not to be cleared right away, but closed instead until the situation improved. by the second day of the storm, more than one million homes were left without power in the czech republic with another million households without electricity in germany and tens of thousands dark homes in austria and poland.