:00:00. > :00:10.The next chapter in this remarkable tale.
:00:11. > :00:16.Once you discover who your real mother is, especially the way in
:00:17. > :00:20.which she was murdered and forgotten, I have had to just pursue
:00:21. > :00:24.this until we get justice and the truth, really.
:00:25. > :00:30.But what's the future for this iconic theme park?
:00:31. > :00:36.Everyone admits this was an ambitious project, but was it too
:00:37. > :00:40.ambitious and too big for a district councillor that is used to drawing
:00:41. > :00:42.up contracts to collect our bins, rather than creating a building if
:00:43. > :00:43.theme park? Every time I go past this in the
:00:44. > :00:59.hallway, I can't resist kissing kit. I'm Natalie Graham with untold
:01:00. > :01:01.stories, closer to home. From all round the South East,
:01:02. > :01:13.this is Inside Out. He only wanted to know
:01:14. > :01:22.who his mother was, but he ended up being part of the murder
:01:23. > :01:29.mystery of the century. Neil Berriman discovered only eight
:01:30. > :01:31.years ago that his mother was the nanny that Lord Lucan
:01:32. > :01:35.is alleged to have murdered in 1974. This report contains flashing
:01:36. > :01:49.images. In a Sussex Garden,
:01:50. > :01:53.a builder is busy at work, But the builder has
:01:54. > :02:00.a remarkable story. His name is Neil Berriman
:02:01. > :02:03.and he was an adopted child. But when his adoptive mother died,
:02:04. > :02:09.she left him a package. It all started with
:02:10. > :02:16.the brown envelope. I was the secret son
:02:17. > :02:24.of Sandra Rivett. She was the nanny murdered by Lord
:02:25. > :02:28.Lucan. On the 7th of November 1974,
:02:29. > :02:31.the nanny employed by Lord Lucan was found bludgeoned to death
:02:32. > :02:43.at his home in London. Lucan drove to Sussex,
:02:44. > :02:46.first to Uckfield and then to Newhaven where he and his
:02:47. > :02:51.car were found abandoned. He disappeared, never
:02:52. > :02:56.to be seen again. Is now commonly assumed that
:02:57. > :03:15.Lord Lucan murdered Sandra Rivett, What do you think happened? A good
:03:16. > :03:24.question. The truth is probably that Lord Lucan is guilty of organising
:03:25. > :03:28.the crime, I'm not 100% sure he did it himself. He's definitely guilty,
:03:29. > :03:34.because why would you run off for 41 years? What concerns Neil is that
:03:35. > :03:37.the focus of attention is on the Lord Lucan. For decades, the nation
:03:38. > :03:41.has been fascinated by the mystery and whether or not he is still
:03:42. > :03:47.alive. Neil feels that people of lost sight of who is the victim in
:03:48. > :03:53.this, his mother. Especially the way in which she was murdered and
:03:54. > :03:57.forgotten about. I feel because of that that I have had to just pursue
:03:58. > :04:06.this, until we get justice and the truth, really. Now, Lord Lucan's
:04:07. > :04:09.son, George Bingham, has applied for his missing father to be declared
:04:10. > :04:17.dead so he can inherit the title. Neil oppose the application offers,
:04:18. > :04:25.but then withdrew his opposition. I wanted to be involved in the court
:04:26. > :04:33.'s case, because it may throw new light on and so obviously the
:04:34. > :04:39.mystery. -- the court case. Neil's main concern is the documents
:04:40. > :04:45.unearthed by Inside Out from 2012. It is this leaseback rapport from
:04:46. > :04:49.2002, and even then they reveal that they suspect Lord Lucan may still be
:04:50. > :04:53.alive and living in Africa. Neil's plan is to raise this document in
:04:54. > :04:57.court. That could be enough for the judge to actually want to
:04:58. > :05:12.investigate this document further with the police. So, it is Neil's
:05:13. > :05:19.big day in court. Hopefully I can get my bit across, stir it up a bit
:05:20. > :05:30.and see if it gets any closer to the truth. Neil is joined by his
:05:31. > :05:45.partner, Kim. There's no turning back now. What do you make of it
:05:46. > :05:50.all, Kim? I'm not sure! Somebody know something, don't they? Oh,
:05:51. > :05:54.yeah, definitely. But as I don't understand, actually. Because he
:05:55. > :05:58.loved his children so much, I don't understand, for whatever he did,
:05:59. > :06:03.whether you murdered my mother or not, or even if he was involved in
:06:04. > :06:07.it, which obviously he was, why did... I know there's the
:06:08. > :06:13.embarrassment and all that is, but he could have done 20 years or even
:06:14. > :06:15.less in prison and been out and then lift a life with his children. He
:06:16. > :06:34.could be out by exactly. In court, Neil and Judy Judge's
:06:35. > :06:39.attention to the 2002 Metropolitan Police macro report. Lucan's son
:06:40. > :06:43.produced a statement saying they had not seen him for decades. The law
:06:44. > :06:50.says it must be shown that Lord Lucan had not been known to be alive
:06:51. > :06:58.for at least 70 years. So the judge ruled that Lord Lucan could be
:06:59. > :07:04.declared dead. George Bingen and made a statement outside the court.
:07:05. > :07:11.The court declared my father, known to most people as Lord Lucan, to be
:07:12. > :07:15.dead for legal purposes from 1981. I want to take this time to applaud
:07:16. > :07:20.the efforts of Mr Neil Berriman to secure justice for his mother, our
:07:21. > :07:23.beloved family nanny. We extend our sympathy to him and his broader
:07:24. > :07:29.family. That sympathy is well grounded in that neither their
:07:30. > :07:34.family nor our family know about twos and this unfortunate and lovely
:07:35. > :07:40.Lady died in 1974. Then it was Neil's turn to face the cameras.
:07:41. > :07:42.Looe-macro I believe there is a Metropolitan Police internal
:07:43. > :07:49.document that states Lucan's possibly alive in 2002 onwards. But
:07:50. > :07:53.at the end, we have get to the truth and justice for Sandra. The horrible
:07:54. > :07:56.death, a young woman, my mother, beaten. There is no getting away
:07:57. > :08:01.from the fact that whatever happened that night, Lucan is guilty of
:08:02. > :08:07.something in my eyes. So please remedy forgotten victims here, truth
:08:08. > :08:11.will prevail. Thank you. So this all started when Neil opened that
:08:12. > :08:14.envelope. He found to his mother was and then found himself at the Royal
:08:15. > :08:22.Courts of Justice at the centre of the will's attention. -- the world's
:08:23. > :08:25.attention. And is not over yet, because since the court case the
:08:26. > :08:29.Metropolitan Police have asked Neil succumbed to a meeting. All this
:08:30. > :08:36.began here. Do you regret opening that envelope? What a question! God.
:08:37. > :08:45.No. Coming up on Inside Out,
:08:46. > :08:52.the people of Kent and Sussex Now, Dreamland, Margate's Iconic
:08:53. > :09:06.amusement park, has been brought But the journey has had
:09:07. > :09:14.more ups and downs that its
:09:15. > :09:16.famous wooden roller-coaster. But as the Heritage theme park
:09:17. > :09:19.prepares to open for its second season, are the problems
:09:20. > :09:21.now in the past? Revived and reverberating
:09:22. > :09:31.with the sound of good The country's first heritage theme
:09:32. > :09:39.park opened in Margate this summer, introducing the ipad generation
:09:40. > :09:56.to thrill-seeking, 1950s-style. Dreamland closed nearly a decade ago
:09:57. > :10:01.and bringing about a life shows that for many, this is more than a
:10:02. > :10:08.funfair. When I was six years old first came here. Was amazing. A
:10:09. > :10:14.Londoner wanted to sell off part of the site for housing to pay for it.
:10:15. > :10:17.The council refused and after years of stalemate, the council compulsory
:10:18. > :10:39.purchased the site, taking control of the whole project.
:10:40. > :10:45.Creditors agree a five-year payment is doubly theme park's operators
:10:46. > :10:49.going bust. Everyone admits this was an ambitious project, but was it too
:10:50. > :10:53.ambitious and do big for a District Council that is used to growing
:10:54. > :10:58.group -- drawing up contracts to collect our bins, rather than
:10:59. > :11:04.creating a building a theme park. And the council's control, costs
:11:05. > :11:08.increased from ?10 million to ?15 million. This was proof for that of
:11:09. > :11:13.the developer that the Cathal never grasped the scale of the venture.
:11:14. > :11:19.What this too big for a council to undertake? For this council, yes. If
:11:20. > :11:20.it was so well at Manchester where have the resources intelligence, but
:11:21. > :11:29.this council is neither of The without a chore I to 2003 to
:11:30. > :11:41.understand the ins and outs of this project. The community launched a
:11:42. > :11:45.campaign to save it. What will happen to Dreamland? That is the
:11:46. > :11:49.question. The owner wanted to redevelop the fat housing and
:11:50. > :11:52.retail, but there is this problem, this grade two listed scenic railway
:11:53. > :12:01.which is at the heart of where everything would be built. A lot has
:12:02. > :12:06.changed since then, and I certainly have. There are new Health Safety
:12:07. > :12:09.precautions on the scenic Railway. But one thing has remained constant.
:12:10. > :12:16.The owners back then and still maintain this park is only viable if
:12:17. > :12:19.it is cross subsidised. They have not got the money to invest in
:12:20. > :12:24.infrastructure, they have in the quality of rides that a new
:12:25. > :12:29.generation of riders would expect and yes, obviously the heritage is a
:12:30. > :12:33.great theme, but in a way, it isn't a cheap option. Heritage is a more
:12:34. > :12:39.expensive option, because you have to shine at the brass, polish the
:12:40. > :12:44.steel. They has to look even better, because people must be enthralled by
:12:45. > :12:50.it. But the council always insisted its Budget was sufficient to deliver
:12:51. > :12:55.a new park. It was very tight, and as you say, it is public money and
:12:56. > :12:59.we have to watch every penny. But it has been costed for phase one and we
:13:00. > :13:03.can get it done for the ?10 million that we have in place. And the
:13:04. > :13:09.funding is in place to do what we have proposed to do for phase one.
:13:10. > :13:12.Fast forward to the present day, a different council leader, but the
:13:13. > :13:18.same question. Do the council have the expertise to carry out this
:13:19. > :13:22.project? Did they count every penny, considering they overspent by ?5
:13:23. > :13:26.million? It is a huge overspend and we are not particularly proud of it,
:13:27. > :13:33.but you have to be in the context of where we were. That figure that is
:13:34. > :13:39.being quoted comes from 2013. We have site access now and found that
:13:40. > :13:43.the Margate town centre regeneration company on its seven years of
:13:44. > :13:46.occupying the site tried to full fulsome of their projects. But they
:13:47. > :13:51.told us it will more like a scorched earth policy. We have gone in there
:13:52. > :13:57.and it is taken as two years together park up and running, it
:13:58. > :14:00.took them seven to achieve nothing. But the developer says millions of
:14:01. > :14:04.pounds of funding was granted in those years and claims the deadlock
:14:05. > :14:10.was down to the council. Do you still believe you could have done a
:14:11. > :14:14.better project than this? 100%, of course. We build a decent spacers
:14:15. > :14:18.and I'm not being funny, and when you drive in and still see that I
:14:19. > :14:24.saw which was posed to be tidied up at the Tesco's scheme which they
:14:25. > :14:28.bundled, it still looks atrocious. At the moment, anyway. Hopefully
:14:29. > :14:32.they will do something with it. You look at the car park, derelict
:14:33. > :14:37.buildings, metal fencing, the backs of all the shops... There is a lot
:14:38. > :14:41.better that could have been done and the money would have come through if
:14:42. > :14:46.people had built houses. Money has also been a big issue for the
:14:47. > :14:52.operator, Sands Heritage who actually run the park. There will
:14:53. > :14:54.always be challenges when you're working between the public and
:14:55. > :14:58.private sector. They work in different ways and the different
:14:59. > :15:03.speeds. It is challenging. In addition to the council's ?5 million
:15:04. > :15:07.overspent, they have racked up debts of nearly ?3 million and are on the
:15:08. > :15:12.brink of going bust, until a Deal was done at an emergency credit's
:15:13. > :15:16.meeting. They knew where we were and wanted to see Gene land as a
:15:17. > :15:21.success. They see what is doing locally I want to supporters and
:15:22. > :15:25.they did. So tapping into Dreamland's rich history and it
:15:26. > :15:30.started as a Margate institution has helped the projects get this far.
:15:31. > :15:33.The second phase to restore the tree-lined towel and rebuild the old
:15:34. > :15:40.ballroom is now under way. This is all part of phase two, restoring the
:15:41. > :15:45.cafe and the foyer of the 1930s cinema to its former glory. Anyone
:15:46. > :15:51.who came here will remember buying your tickets here and then going up
:15:52. > :15:55.those stairs to watch the film. Before the crowds return, millions
:15:56. > :16:00.of pounds of private money is required. But with visitor numbers
:16:01. > :16:03.expected to below and on forecast following the difficulties of
:16:04. > :16:11.Dreamland's first season, our major cinema and restaurant chains likely
:16:12. > :16:13.to invest? If they're interested in joining this renegotiation project
:16:14. > :16:18.will be seen as being broadly successful and as such, I think we
:16:19. > :16:23.will recover phase two rather than go backwards as you suggest. But
:16:24. > :16:25.Toby Hunter still maintains that without the hard cash from housing
:16:26. > :16:31.it will be difficult to finance the next phases. It needs another
:16:32. > :16:35.15-20,000,000 of spare cash to go into it. It won't produce the
:16:36. > :16:39.investment. Professionals working for the Council and is all agree
:16:40. > :16:43.that an amusement park is not sustainable on this site. Everyone
:16:44. > :16:49.act sets getting this far was a huge achievement. The listed scenic
:16:50. > :16:53.Railway was saved by backing the project, the Council has defied the
:16:54. > :16:58.odds, opening the first seaside theme park in more than 20 years.
:16:59. > :17:02.And also creating a link with Margate's heyday, when the beach was
:17:03. > :17:10.always packed and business was booming. A priceless heritage. The
:17:11. > :17:12.council that use that are pulling millions of pounds? Thereby proving
:17:13. > :17:21.that money from housing was never needed.
:17:22. > :17:25.Now, many people say a genius like David Bowie must have come
:17:26. > :17:28.from another planet, but his place of origin was a little
:17:29. > :17:31.As part of the BBC's People's History Of Pop season,
:17:32. > :17:35.those from the south east whose lives have been touched
:17:36. > :17:46.On January 10th, 2016 the world was rocked by the death of David
:17:47. > :17:55.There's been a huge public reaction to his death,
:17:56. > :17:59.which just goes to show how much Bowie achieved in the 69 years
:18:00. > :18:13.Bowie was a trailblazer across the music scene.
:18:14. > :18:16.His work combined many different art forms to create a visual presence
:18:17. > :18:20.We travel across the South East to meet the fans...
:18:21. > :18:23.So every time I go past this gorgeous one in the hallway,
:18:24. > :18:30.I didn't see his potential as the mega-star that he became.
:18:31. > :18:37.The Ziggy guitar sound is a Wah-Wah pedal, switched
:18:38. > :18:54.He had many personas, but before he was the Thin White Duke
:18:55. > :19:00.or Ziggy Stardust, he was David Jones from Bromley.
:19:01. > :19:04.# Ziggy really sank, screwed up I isn't screwed on hairdo, like some
:19:05. > :19:07.cats from Japan #. In January 1947, David Robert Jones
:19:08. > :19:10.was born in Brixton but grew And it was at the Bromley Technical
:19:11. > :19:15.High School for Boys that a playground scuffle
:19:16. > :19:19.would change his looks forever. The classic story of he had
:19:20. > :19:22.the fight with a guy called George Underwood, who'd eventually
:19:23. > :19:25.go on to be his sleeve designer But they had a fight over a girl
:19:26. > :19:33.and George Underwood punched him in the eye and the pupil
:19:34. > :19:36.permanently dilated, giving him the legendary look
:19:37. > :19:41.of having different-coloured eyes. In 1963 Jones left school with just
:19:42. > :19:44.one O Level in art and became a trainee commercial
:19:45. > :19:46.artist at an ad agency, At this point, David
:19:47. > :19:51.wanted to be a star, so joined several bands looking
:19:52. > :19:57.for his elusive breakthrough. They sort of weren't going anywhere
:19:58. > :20:00.for him quick enough, And there he has this ambition,
:20:01. > :20:05.he had this vision he was going to be their Mick Jagger,
:20:06. > :20:08.so you could see he was already aiming high and saw himself
:20:09. > :20:11.amongst the greats. The Maidstone-based Manish Boys
:20:12. > :20:14.were really going places, with TV When you think of his voice on that,
:20:15. > :20:31.it hasn't changed that much, has it? Woolf Byrne, who still lives
:20:32. > :20:37.in Maidstone, was a sax player in the band and remembers David's
:20:38. > :20:40.audition, when they were introduced He bought this Davey Jones down
:20:41. > :20:47.to Maidstone where We'd been expecting actually
:20:48. > :20:53.the only Davie Jones we'd ever heard of, or so we thought,
:20:54. > :20:57.was a black R'n'B singer, so we were quite keen
:20:58. > :21:01.on seeing this guy. Anyway, door opens and in comes this
:21:02. > :21:11.very thin, very pale youth So he sang a couple of numbers,
:21:12. > :21:14.we were sort of, "Mmm, He was good and everything,
:21:15. > :21:21.but didn't think he was going to get David was with the Mannish Boys
:21:22. > :21:26.for the best part of a year, It was now the mid-sixties and music
:21:27. > :21:31.tastes were changing so David joined the Margate Mod group
:21:32. > :21:33.The Lower Third. By then he'd changed his name
:21:34. > :21:37.to David Bowie, as there was a clash of interest to Davy Jones,
:21:38. > :21:39.who would eventually become a member So he didn't want
:21:40. > :21:43.to clash with that. And also, Davy Jones is a fairly
:21:44. > :21:46.sort of ordinary name and if you've got these ideas of being
:21:47. > :21:48.a supernatural pop star, # the blazing sun set in your
:21:49. > :21:59.eyes... #. Bowie admired other art forms
:22:00. > :22:02.and borrowed constantly from them. And in 1969 he co-founded his own
:22:03. > :22:04.Arts Lab with his friend It was held every Sunday night
:22:05. > :22:08.in Beckenham in the backroom of the Three Tuns pub
:22:09. > :22:10.and was a place where artists And we discovered there were poets,
:22:11. > :22:20.there were writers, there were puppeteers,
:22:21. > :22:24.there were printmakers, and there were authors
:22:25. > :22:29.and everything you could think of. And all these people had all this
:22:30. > :22:32.artistic talent and the arts lab movement was just starting to happen
:22:33. > :22:35.across the country, moving out from London
:22:36. > :22:39.and so we asked our audience one night, "Would you like to turn
:22:40. > :22:43.the folk club into an arts lab?" The late sixties saw man rocket
:22:44. > :22:52.to the moon and Kubrick's 2001: Bowie experimented by taking
:22:53. > :22:59.the current appetite for all things space and combining it
:23:00. > :23:01.with a traditional folk ballad to conjure up his first
:23:02. > :23:08.top-five hit, Space Oddity. David was determined not
:23:09. > :23:16.to be a one hit wonder. So he and Mary organised a music
:23:17. > :23:19.festival at the local By this point, the pair became
:23:20. > :23:23.lovers, but David was soon to develop stronger
:23:24. > :23:24.feelings for another. A young American woman
:23:25. > :23:27.called Angie Barnett. When Angie came on the scene,
:23:28. > :23:32.it all got a bit turbulent. I actually knew that something
:23:33. > :23:35.was going on because I'd been in London for a couple of days
:23:36. > :23:38.on my own and I came back And when I left David on his own,
:23:39. > :23:44.normally I would come back to a fairly grungy kitchen and a lot
:23:45. > :23:48.of mess and I would have to tidy up and clean up because he was not
:23:49. > :23:53.at all domesticated. And so eventually I sort
:23:54. > :24:03.of crept into his room, And there was a very strong
:24:04. > :24:05.smell of Chanel No.5, there was a flowered Kimono hanging
:24:06. > :24:08.over the chair and by his bed there was a notebook with a song
:24:09. > :24:18.entitled Beautiful Angie. So I got the message.
:24:19. > :24:21.Were you upset? The following year Angie and David
:24:22. > :24:25.were married at the Bromley Register Office, and in 1971 their son
:24:26. > :24:27.Zowie Bowie was born. The young family continued to live
:24:28. > :24:31.in the area until Bowie created his ultimate persona Ziggy
:24:32. > :24:35.Stardust. The messianic Martian helped to send
:24:36. > :24:47.the singer's career stratospheric. # there's a storm on waiting in the
:24:48. > :24:51.sky, you'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'll blow our minds.
:24:52. > :24:53.There's a man... #. And with superstardom
:24:54. > :24:54.comes superfans! Welcome to my Aladdin's cave,
:24:55. > :24:56.this is my David Bowie shrine. And this photograph
:24:57. > :25:04.was taken by Herb Ritts. Racheal's obsession with the rock
:25:05. > :25:11.god began as an eight-year-old girl when she was growing up in Surrey
:25:12. > :25:14.and she's been collecting rare and wonderful Bowie
:25:15. > :25:16.memorabilia ever since. so when I was at school,
:25:17. > :25:19.I was a day girl and there were lots of boarders so there had
:25:20. > :25:22.to be a magnet to come And the magnet was my mum,
:25:23. > :25:29.because she's a fabulous cook. So they'd all pile down to my house
:25:30. > :25:32.and they'd all come Except they couldn't
:25:33. > :25:38.quite come into my room. I had double wardrobes
:25:39. > :25:43.and as you opened the double wardrobes, I would give the boarders
:25:44. > :25:46.a marker pen, a red, a green, a black, a blue,
:25:47. > :25:49.and the entrance fee was you had to write the lyrics of any
:25:50. > :25:52.David Bowie song on my wardrobe and then you could come
:25:53. > :25:54.into my cave. 1985, was the year
:25:55. > :25:57.Bowie played Live Aid. An ensemble of the world's biggest
:25:58. > :26:00.musical acts was assembled to raise With everyone's eyes on Bowie,
:26:01. > :26:04.he needed the best band around. So he called on the services
:26:05. > :26:11.of guitarist Kevin Armstrong, who now lives in St Leonard's
:26:12. > :26:14.,and backing vocalist Tessa Niles from Chilham to perform
:26:15. > :26:17.with him at Wembley. It wasn't Bowie's manager that
:26:18. > :26:19.called me, but it was somebody close to him who said,
:26:20. > :26:23."How would you like to be in the biggest rock 'n' roll gig
:26:24. > :26:25.of all time?" I got a phone call saying "Go
:26:26. > :26:30.to Abbey Road and take your guitar and Mr X will do a session
:26:31. > :26:33.with you and some other musicians will be there and it will be a big
:26:34. > :26:36.day for you". Everybody was really geared up
:26:37. > :26:38.and then Bowie arrived and it just sent the thing
:26:39. > :26:40.into hyperspace, you know? He was just that electricity,
:26:41. > :26:57.that energy kind of coming in. Just walking out and seeing that
:26:58. > :27:01.many people in the audience just pumping and was never before,
:27:02. > :27:04.never again really. The boy from Bromley
:27:05. > :27:31.fulfilled his wildest dreams It is Monday the 11th of January.
:27:32. > :27:35.David Bowie's funds heard the news they did not want to hear. David had
:27:36. > :27:38.lost his 18 month battle with cancer. He never forgot who he
:27:39. > :27:42.really was. When David received his diagnosis
:27:43. > :27:46.in 2014, he made a secret trip to the UK from his home in New York,
:27:47. > :27:49.to say goodbye to the places And if you've got any old tour
:27:50. > :28:03.T-shirts, ticket stubs or other music memorabilia tucked away,
:28:04. > :28:07.you can share your pictures and stories right now
:28:08. > :28:13.at bbc.co.uk/peoplespop. And as usual, you can watch
:28:14. > :28:16.the whole show again by clicking on our iPlayer at
:28:17. > :28:21.bbc.co.uk/insideout. Coming up next week: We reveal how
:28:22. > :28:25.mental health services are failing our most
:28:26. > :28:40.vulnerable children. I do not want to breathe, live or
:28:41. > :28:42.use oxygen anymore. I didn't want to eat, talk or anything. I don't want
:28:43. > :28:53.life. It is difficult to suddenly see your
:28:54. > :28:55.unborn child sniffing powered up their nose to make themselves happy.
:28:56. > :28:57.That's it from us for tonight from Maidstone.
:28:58. > :29:05.Thanks for watching and see you next week.
:29:06. > :29:07.Hello, I'm Alice Bhandhukravi with your 90-second update.
:29:08. > :29:09.Storm Imogen's been battering southern Britain.
:29:10. > :29:14.Winds hit nearly100 hundred miles an hour in places
:29:15. > :29:16.Thousands of homes are without power.