After a few days of festive fun hazardous weather put an end to any remaining Christmas cheer especially for those traveling home from the Scottish Highlands we've been here for 3 hours now stuck in the snow along with hundreds of other vehicles by the look of it stretching back to aymore in that Direction and southbound down to uh pit lockery um as you can see winds are very strong lots of snow uh we've seen s a long time ago and that's about it really won't be getting back to London today police declared a major incident on the A9 with snowfall bringing miles of Vehicles to a standstill severe conditions that left thousands of power wild weather across much of the country caused significant disruption at Bristol airport plane landings were a struggle with flights postponed here and elsewhere gusts of up to 80 mph brought down trees and power lines at Fort William forcing travelers to stay put While falling trees also came dangerously close to people's homes in other places in Scotland like f roads were turned into rivers as a Waterway burst its banks flooded stations and trees on the track saw widespread cancellations across train networks the sevenn bridge and gluster was also forced to close with drivers across the Country set to face difficult conditions over the next few days the re a fair degree of surface water out there so like say we're encouraging people to to drive to the conditions allow additional time uh to complete the journeys uh take some uh essential kit with them some Water some warm clothing Etc a fully charged phone if they do come into any uh difficult situation to found the Emergency Services the Met Office has decided to name storm Garrett as a warning to those traveling home after the holidays and with difficult conditions set to linger during the week The advice from the RAC to people using major row like this one is do not underestimate the dangers of wet surfaces Fallen debris and high winds people are often warned against travel and conditions like this but for some it will be unavoidable making this a damp end to a usually cheerful time of Year shingi Mar K Sky News Richmond and North Yorkshire