Power has been restored to 50,000 homes two days after Storm Amy brought damage and disruption across Scotland.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said about 34,000 properties were still without power, as teams worked through challenging conditions on Saturday.
A Met Office yellow weather alert covering all of Scotland expired at midnight, however a smaller warning area for high winds in the north east remains until midday.
Gusts of 96 mph were recorded in the Inner Hebrides at the peak of the storm, which brought hundreds of trees down and caused damage to buildings.
SSEN’s Nik Wheeler said: “Every resource at our disposal is being directed at the reconnection operation, and our efforts to ensure people are kept well informed and looked after while these essential repairs are carried out.”
Robin BrownSSEN said extra engineers had been deployed in the control room, to remotely reroute power around damaged parts of the network.
Additional tree-cutting teams cleared the way for engineers to get to damage on the network.
And a welfare operation was also mobilised, with several hot food vans sent to affected communities.
On Saturday, Network Rail Scotland said Storm Amy – the first named storm of the season – had hit “much harder and more quickly” than it expected
It said there were more than 170 incidents, including 60 in the first two hours, with fallen trees, flooding and debris blocking lines.
Several lines in the north of Scotland had been closed ahead of the storm’s arrival.
However, the track operator said it was forced to close all lines out of Glasgow and routes in southern Scotland without warning.
ScotRail services on the West Highland Line and the Inverness to Kyle line remain cancelled due to “complex repairs” which the operator said will take time.
The storm caused damage around the country. In Glasgow, part of the Broomielaw in the city centre was closed when a derelict building collapsed.
In Inverness a large shop front sign was blown off at Inshes Retail Park.
A family have told of the “petrifying” moment a tree smashed through the windows of their house in Fort William.
In Angus, Montrose FC called for “fit and able supporters” to help clear up debris after the boundary wall at Links Park stadium blew over.
Several flights and ferry services were cancelled, while some road bridges were either closed or had restrictions on high-sided vehicles.
The Met Office said that Storm Amy set a new record for the deepest area of low pressure in the UK for October.
In an area of low pressure the weather is often unsettled.
