Cornwall is rallying together after Storm Goretti battered the county on Thursday and Friday.
A rare red weather warning for wind was issued from 16:00-23:00 GMT on Thursday with a further yellow warning for wind for Devon and Cornwall until 08:00 on Friday.
At one point, more than 47,000 homes in the county were without power and thousands of homes were without running water due to power outages at a water treatment works.
Residents were displaced, schools closed or start times delayed and businesses and properties were damaged.
In Falmouth, a mum and her two children had a lucky escape after a tree crashed through their roof.
Emily Hitchkiss and her two young children were at home as Storm Goretti hit.
She said if her children had remained upstairs or been asleep when that tree came down, she feared they would have died.
Hitchkiss said: “There was smashing glass and a great big tree just came through the front of the house.
“It was seconds really from impaling me and my children.
“My little boy was petrified, there was bits of wood flying everywhere, smashing glass.”
Villages cut off
The village of Malpas in Cornwall was cut off overnight after a 93-year-old tree came down during Storm Goretti.
The Heron Inn said a team of villagers, armed with chainsaws, took it upon themselves to deal with the tree in daylight hours when the storm had passed.
There were severe delays on the train lines into and out of Cornwall, late into Thursday and throughout Friday.
Very few trains ran, with a route-proving train leaving Penzance, equipped with chainsaw cutting crews on board who get off when they come across debris, clear it and then inspect the track.
The education system was heavily impacted with 30 schools and colleges in Cornwall closed for the day due to the storm, with 59 schools opening late.
