Ward said people were going to die “not directly because of the storm, because of the lack of electricity, the lack of heat and then lack of food”.
“We need priorities for hospitals, schools anything like that but we’ve also got people out in the countryside who are freezing to death, I’m sad to say,” he said.
“People are going to freeze to death, it saddens me to say it but I fear it’s going to happen and we need things in place.”
Senedd presiding officer Elin Jones said the scale of the blackout was “serious and silent” in an update on her Facebook page.
According to National Grid, there were just under 10,000 homes without power in south and west Wales at 21:30 on Tuesday, while Scottish Power said there were still 1,036 outages in mid and north Wales.
Steven Joseph, Operations Director at National Grid, said damage was still being done in some areas even though Storm Darragh has passed.
“Some of the trees that didn’t fall over the weekend are now starting to fall, so as we’re fixing sections we’re finding new faults.”
Openreach said about 6,500 customers across Wales had their internet service impacted as a result of Storm Darragh, with 40 telegraph poles and 50 overhead cables coming down in the high winds.
