Tuesday’s blast of wintry weather caused chaos in parts of Courier country.
Eighteen road accidents were reported and thousands of residents in Dundee and Angus were left without electricity after snow and high winds brought down power lines.
Around 6,000 homes across Scotland without power for a short time, but Perth and Kinross escaped the worst.
Scottish and Southern Energy reported numerous minor faults to the network as a result of ”line icing”, with a few hundred homes in rural Perthshire affected.
A spokeswoman for Scottish Hydro Power Distribution said: ”At its peak, which was around 10am, there were 11,000 customers without power.
”The engineers have restored all but 1,700 and we expect them to regain service tonight.
”In Tayside and Central there were 4,000 customers affected by the power cut, most of them in the north-east area of Dundee.
”All but 700 have now got power.”
Fallen trees blocked roads in Whigstreet just outside Forfar and Victoria Street in Monifieth.
A 30-foot branch came down at Dundee’s Kings Cross Hospital after the tree was uprooted in Hospital Street.
Police closed the northbound Dundee to Forfar road near the Tealing turn-off following a collision involving two cars and a lorry. The vehicles were moved to the side of the road at 8.20am so carriageways could remain open.
A 30mph speed limit was set on the Tay Road Bridge and the route was closed to double-decker buses due to high winds. A spokeswoman for ScotRail said train services were delayed by 20 minutes but improved as the weather calmed.
Flights from Dundee Airport were also slightly delayed.
On the A9 south of Perth driving conditions were hazardous for much of the morning and there were numerous reports of vehicles skidding.
Among them was a dark Vauxhall Astra which left the northbound Stirling to Perth carriageway at Tibbermore at around 7.20am.
The vehicle came to rest on its side in a field, in deep snow but its driver escaped largely unscathed. He was taken to Perth Royal Infirmary as a precaution.
Dundee City Council said roads staff worked through the night to tackle the conditions.
The cold blast is set to continue throughout Wednesday with the Met Office issuing a yellow severe weather warning for Central, Tayside and Fife.
Widespread ice is expected to form on untreated surfaces leading to potentially treacherous driving conditions.
The cold snap should ease towards the end of the week, with temperatures rising to around 7C by Thursday and into double figures by the weekend.
In Angus a number of accidents and road closures were confined to the earlier part of yesterday morning.
The earliest traffic problems in Angus happened just before 7am near Brechin, at the A90 St Ann’s junction. Four men were treated for minor injuries after their car left the road.
Tayside Police reported difficult driving conditions in eastern Perthshire, on routes including the Coupar Angus to Dundee road.
The A923 was closed for a significant part of the morning after three vehicles were involved in an accident on the A923 at around 9.30am.
One motorist had suffered a slight neck injury, while the female driver of one of the vehicles sustained a knee injury.
The M90 was reduced to a single lane for commuters, with motorists forced to travel in slow convoy.
The weather was also unkind to an Angus animal sanctuary.
Mountains Animal Sanctuary’s decision to close followed a bad day in which two older horses died.
Up to 10 inches of snow was reported in the area, with half of the staff unable to get to work.
One horse, 39-year-old Foal, fell in the snow. Another, 31-year-old Amber, was found dead in its field.