The storm caused hundreds of trees to uproot and fall on properties – a 79-year-old woman from Callestick, near Truro, said about 50 giant leylandii trees on her land had been completely uprooted and called for financial support.
Several graves were also disturbed after trees were uprooted at a cemetery near Mousehole, with one resident describing the scene as “heartbreaking for the relatives”.
Labour MP Perran Moon suggested successive governments had failed to make sure resilience plans were good enough and urged the government to “commit to a comprehensive cross-departmental review of the resilience of essential Cornish and and Scillonian infrastructure, communications and priority list support”, to which Jarvis said he was “happy to discuss it further”.
Jayne Kirkham, Labour MP for Truro and Falmouth, said the storm had left people “completely cut off” from contacting each other due to technology issues and asked for that to be “taken into account for future backup with communications”, such as the use of satellite.
Jarvis said the government would look carefully at the telecoms issue.