A man watches as waves crash into a cliff at Portstewart in northern Ireland December 10, 2014. Up to 17,000 residents in the west of Scotland were left without power on Wednesday morning as a "weather bomb" of wet and windy conditions battered parts of Britain with gusts expected to reach up to 80 miles per hour (130 km/h). REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton (NORTHERN IRELAND - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)