The island’s dairy and milk supplier is catching up on a temporary shortage blamed on fallout from last week’s Hurricane Fiona.

Dunkley’s Dairy in Devonshire “always has challenges around hurricanes”, according to chief executive Michael Dunkley.

“We lost power for a significant amount of time,” Mr Dunkley said. “We had a pole fire, and production was late. So now we’re trying to get back on track.”

Fiona, which bore down on Bermuda as a major hurricane in the early hours of Friday, skirted the island to the west but knocked out most electricity service.

Mr Dunkley said the close call from the storm was unluckily timed for the dairy’s production schedule.

“We didn’t get power back until Saturday morning, and now it’s just a matter of catching up,” the Smith’s North MP said.

“I’d like to thank everyone who helped get power back, and I think we will be in better shape every day — I’m not too concerned about it.”

Shortages are not uncommon in the wake of hurricanes. Three years ago, when Hurricane Humberto narrowly missed the island, supplies of the regular pasteurised cow's milk, which comes in blue cartons, also ran low.