Five days after a severe autumn storm in the UK, tens of thousands of households in Scotland and northern England are still cut off from electricity.

Around 30,000 households still have no electricity, the electricity supplier association Energy Networks Association (ENA) announced on Wednesday.

The storm "Arwen" swept across the country on Friday evening, killing three people.

After initially cutting off hundreds of thousands of households from the electricity supply, it was restored in 97 percent of cases by Wednesday.

For some, however, it could take until the end of the week before they had electricity again, ENA announced.

The engineers entrusted with repairing the power grids worked “around the clock”.

State Secretary for Energy, Kwasi Kwarteng, told the House of Commons that there had not been a storm as strong as "Arwen" in Great Britain for 60 years.

For the future, however, the country must prepare for similar weather extremes.

"We have to make sure our system is resilient," said Kwarteng.

Cars dug up

After three nights in a snow-covered pub in the north of England, around 60 guests have left their involuntary quarters.

The snow plow "finally got through" on Monday, said Nicola Townsend, landlady of the Tan Hill Inn, of the PA agency late Monday evening.

Of the 61 guests, 59 left after digging their cars out of the snow.

The two remaining guests wanted to hang out for another day and then leave on Tuesday.

The 61 guests were stranded after the performance of an Oasis cover band by the name of Noasis on Friday evening in what is said to be the highest pub in England, which is located in the Pennines, a low mountain range in the north of England.

The autumn storm "Arwen" had also caused traffic chaos in other parts of Great Britain and caused the electricity to fail in many households.

The visitors passed the time with karaoke, quizzes and board games, as Townsend reported.

Something was improvised at night: Many guests were accommodated in the hostel rooms, others slept on sofas or on mattresses on the floor.

Everyone was given the opportunity to shower regularly.

"Couldn't have chosen better guests"

"It was like a party with a large group of friends," said the landlady, describing the atmosphere during the three days. It was a great experience, everything went really well. "The guests we had, they couldn't have been better chosen." Townsend was surprised at how well the trapped got along. "There weren't any small groups, everyone talked to everyone, everyone was friendly to each other, it was just heartwarming," summarized Townsend.

Supplies were also provided at reduced prices.

"On Sunday evening we had the largest Yorkshire puddings I had ever seen," said Vicky Hogson, describing the enjoyment of the traditional baked goods according to the "Sun".

There was also improvised music by the band members who were stranded with them.

Initially, Becky Longthorpe and Gary Bimpson had doubts when they realized the situation.

But then the point came when you just said to yourself: "Let's just take it as it is, because you will never do that again in your life, will you?"

Alcohol only in the afternoon

According to the landlady, the serving of alcohol was limited to the time after three o'clock in the afternoon. "Our biggest concern was that we would run out of beer," said Gary Bimpson, according to the "Sun".

"There was a good atmosphere, good old British spirit", the two summed up the experience.

Everyone was particularly impressed by the hospitality of the hosts.

"You should give the owners a medal."

The owners thanked their guests on Facebook.

They pointed out that they had already received posts with "We miss you" from many of the former trapped people.

“We miss her too.

"Wait for the movie," replied the Tan Hill crew.

With the final note, they responded to rumors that there were already talks about a possible filming of the weekend in the snow.

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