Residents in central England and Wales braced Tuesday for extra flooding as rivers peaked within the wake of a weekend storm that introduced as much as 150 mm of rain to an already waterlogged area.
Environment companies in England and Wales on Tuesday declared 10 severe flood warnings, that means there’s a right away hazard to life, for the rivers Severn Trent, Wye and Lugg. More than 180 less-severe flood warnings had been additionally in place.
Storm Dennis — the second main storm of the winter — blew by the U.K. on Saturday and Sunday, bringing wind gusts of as much as 145 km/h and heavy rain that flooded roads, railways, properties and companies. The fierce climate upended journey plans for hundreds of British households making an attempt to get away on the mid-winter college break.
It turned rivers together with the Severn and the Wye, which usually meander by picturesque countryside, into raging torrents. The River Wye reached the very best degree ever recorded within the central England city of Hereford.
Dave Throup, a supervisor within the area for the Environment Agency, tweeted; “I’ve seen issues right this moment I’d not have believed. This shouldn’t be regular flooding; we’re in uncharted territory.”
The storm has killed no less than three individuals in Britain, together with a 55-year-old lady who was swept away by floodwaters within the central English city of Tenbury.
The excessive seas churned up by the storm left an deserted cargo ship, the MV Alta, crashed up upon the shores of County Cork, close to Ballycotton, southern Ireland.
The storm additionally left a path of flooding and energy outages throughout northern Europe, together with in southwestern Sweden. In Denmark, 100 individuals who had been evacuated late Monday due to fears {that a} levee would possibly collapse started returning dwelling Tuesday.
