Major Hurricane Ophelia

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SCOTLAND is being pummelled by ferocious winds and driving rain as a storm fuelled by ex-Hurricane Ophelia wreaks havoc across the country.

Electricity lines are down leaving homes without power, at least four flood alerts are in place with some properties – including a Coastguard HQ at Portpatrick – said to have been inundated with water.

Scores of trees have been felled amid near 80mph winds and at least one building in Glasgow’s Albert Road has partially collapsed.

Roofs were blown off buildings elsewhere including in the south-west with Dumfries and Castle Douglas badly hit.

There have also been reports of scaffolding falling, including Kirkcudbright.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency also had 16 more severe flood warnings in place in areas including Argyll and Bute, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, West Central Scotland, Easter Ross and Great Glen and Tayside.

It comes just hours after three people were killed when hurricane force winds shrieked across Ireland and Northern Ireland where schools still remain shut as a clean-up operation there gets underway.

Here, travel chaos was sparked when a train hit an ‘object’ in the line near Markinch in Fife – one of the main routes to and from Edinburgh, with other services affected across the country.

Glasgow Central station was also hit by disruption caused by an obstruction on Neilston services. The network problems were made worse in the north by overrunning engineering works between Aberdeen and Inverness.

It's sad about the deaths.
That said, it's kind of funny that the hurricane going farthest off course is called Ophelia.

No one out-crazies Ophelia.