Cornwall Council says it received about 270 calls overnight relating to Storm Ciarán damage.
Storm Ciarán left destruction in its wake as it tore across Cornwall, causing flooding, fallen trees, power outages - and hurling a trampoline on to railway tracks.The wind caused damage to homes, including this one in FalmouthThe Environment Agency had also issued 14 flood alerts for Cornwall with "significant waves and tidal surges" increasing the risk, the Environment Agency said.
In Ludgvan, near Penzance, part of the roof of one warehouse was blown off and landed in gardens more than 100ft away. "The beach was pretty much covered in sea foam, six to seven feet deep, wild, windy - luckily everything is in tact other than a few slates missing," he added.Cornwall Council's highways teams received about 180 reports involving fallen trees this morning, they said.
Martyn Alvey, Cornwall councillor with responsibility for public protection said: "In terms of the weather event itself we are certainly past the worst of it."We had a number of major routes that were blocked. We have managed to get all those up and running now."Some buses around Falmouth, Redruth, Truro and Camborne were cancelled due to storm disruption.
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