A 63-year-old, whose power was cut off for four days, described his struggle of dealing with temperatures as low as three degrees, during Storm Eunice.

Peter Edwards, who lives in Southernden Road, Headcorn, described how his power went off at 11.30am on Friday and only returned yesterday at 5.30pm.

He said: "We’ve been building logs for four days.

“We haven't been able to cook so we've been going out to eat, and made sandwiches.

“It’s been very disruptive.

“We’ve got pets and horses and animals.

“So we’ve had to use torches to look after them.

“It’s been a long time to repair, and my own personal view is that infrastructure in our area is not up to standard, if there's a windy period or rainy period, it always seem to break down.

“No investment has been made to improve it over the years, we haven’t got much confidence in the future for maintaining an electricity supply.

“There are old people and children down our road and they’ve had no electricity at all.

“So it is a concern as I said we're into day four and it’s extremely cold, four degrees, three degrees at night and I don't know how long people will be able to sustain this.

The storm which began on Friday, has caused major disruption in Kent with wind speeds which reached 90mph and waves crashing over sea walls.

Smashed cars, fallen trees and even a toppled power station tower were among storm Eunice's casualties.

Notably, The A2 was shut in both directions after a power cable fell onto the road.

Police shut the coast-bound carriageway between the A28 for Canterbury and M2 Junction 7 (Brenley Corner) for Faversham.

Greg Hands, minister of state for business, energy and clean growth reflected on the response to the storm.

He believed 'lessons will be learned'.

The minister went on to say: "We have had tried and tested ways of dealing with power outages after storms in this country.

"Afterwards we will do a report to see if there are any specific lessons to be learned from Storm Eunice.

"We have implemented changes from previous situations, such as the dedicated emergency line for power outages.

Thousands of homes in Kent were without power two days after Storm Eunice hit.

On Sunday, UK Power Networks confirmed 11,500 homes in the county had no power as of this morning but at 8pm this had fallen to 6,000 households.

As of today, this figure has reduced down to 1,600 homes.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service had dealt with more than 90 incidents by mid-afternoon Saturday, while dozens of power cuts blighted homes.