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“The coldness can be really harmful to his health,” she said.

“A cold can sit on his chest and give him a chest infection.”

The family spent Friday night in their home, using blankets to stay warm, but have since moved out to stay with family members.

“We’re just so lucky to have family here, because there are a lot of people who would be stuck at home and just have to make do with what they have,” she said.

“He’s got a nebulizer to do this every day. If he doesn’t do that, it can affect his health; he can build up mucus.

“It wouldn’t just be a cold for him. It could be a bad chest infection that could land him in the hospital.

“The one or two days that he misses his nebulizer hopefully won’t have any impact on his health, but if it were to go on for a whole week, it definitely would, and we can’t take that chance. “

Ms Watson said she had to perform extra physiotherapy on her son to combat the cold.

He told BBC News NIE that he expected NIE’s estimate of ten days to restore the service was a “worst case scenario”.

“I expect there’s a good chance that this is actually possible any day, or any hour,” she said.

ten schools The Education Minister has said there will be a lockdown in Northern Ireland on Monday.

Paul Givhan met with the Education Authority (EA) on Saturday and announced that some schools may be required to move to remote learning.

The EA Maintenance Helpline has been operational throughout the weekend and has received 154 reports of damage to school buildings.

It was severely damaged by missing roof tiles, downed trees, and severe structural damage.

The managing director of NIE Networks said power had now been restored to 211,000 properties.

Derek Hines said: “We believe it will be approximately 10 days until we complete the necessary repairs to get power back to everyone.”

The Northern Ireland Secretary, Hilary Benn, said the UK government would offer “every possible support” to the effort to repair the damage.

He said, “The scale of damage brought by this storm is deeply concerning, and I want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone working hard to restore power, clear fallen trees and debris. And keep people safe,” he said.

In the Republic of Ireland, more than 200,000 customers are still without power, down from a peak of 768,000, as a result of the storm.

A man, Kaspar Dudek, 20, Died after a tree fell on his car in RafoCounty Donegal during a storm.

thousands of customers in Scotland still without power,

To report faults or emergencies you should contact:

Northern Ireland Housing Executive: 03448 920 901

OpenReach: 08000 23 20 23

Gas Network: 0800 002001

Ni Water: 03457 44 00 88 or visit Niwater.com, external

Flood Incident Line: 0300 2000 100

Nie Networks: 03457 643 643 or visit nienetworks.co.uk