Residents have had to be rescued after water poured into their homes in the south of Wales as Storm Dennis caused a second day of disruption in the UK.
Britain’s Environment Agency issued a record number of flood warnings and emergency services declared major incidents in south Wales and parts of England, as police and firefighters worked to rescue people trapped after rivers burst their banks.
Warnings of severe flooding, which posed a danger to life, were in place in four locations for the River Teme on the Welsh borders and for the River Taff and River Neath in south Wales.
Another 240 flood warnings were in place across England, 70 in Wales and 20 in Scotland on Sunday afternoon.
“Agencies are continuing to deal with multiple floods and landslides, and have been required to evacuate residents from houses,” South Wales Police said in a statement.
” … Many rescues have been carried out over the past few hours along with the evacuation of houses.”
Storm Dennis has hit Britain barely a week after Storm Ciara disrupted transport, flooded homes in northern England and left thousands without electricity.
The bodies of two men were pulled from rough seas off England’s southeast coast on Saturday in two separate searches.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled due to the high winds while train services were repeatedly disrupted by flooding, affecting tens of thousands of passengers on a key weekend for British families as schools closed for the mid-winter break.
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