{"id":683414,"date":"2026-01-09T01:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683414\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T01:07:12","slug":"cornwall-and-channel-islands-hit-by-storm-goretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683414\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall and Channel Islands hit by Storm Goretti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person moved out of home due to storm damagepublished at 22:05 GMT 8 January<\/p>\n<p>22:05 GMT 8 January<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Guernsey resident is being moved out of their home into a hotel because of &#8220;significant damage to their property&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Joint Emergency Services Control Centre said it was getting regular reports of damage including scaffolding collapsing, damage to roofs, windows blowing in and a telephone pole collapsing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said there had also been reports of a gazebo coming loose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 20 fallen trees have been reported across Guernsey and Alderney.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A tree down across a road lit up by the light of the vehicle the photo is taken from\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d11d176d-76ba-4b16-9ec2-029bd604e0b1.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1203\" height=\"676\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Guernsey Weather Enthusiasts<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guernsey&#8217;s emergency services are repeating a call for islanders to only call 999 for emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a Facebook post they said: &#8220;While we appreciate these calls are being made out of genuine concern and a desire to be helpful, police and fire staff are stretched at the moment responding to a wide variety of incidents, so please only call 999 in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can call 01481 222 222 to speak to an operator in a non-emergency situation, but please be patient as call numbers are high at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The peak of Storm Goretti arrived in the island at about 20:30 and is expected to continue into the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person moved out of home due to storm damagepublished at 22:05 GMT 8 January 22:05 GMT 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-683414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115862467339478472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}