In many parts of Europe, such as the UK and the Netherlands, bad weather has forced residents to evacuate due to flooding or disruption to rail transport, while authorities are warning of fresh flooding in the coming days.
One The powerful storm, with damaging winds, inundated more than 1,000 homes and businesses and inundated several communities.said the British officers.
Houses and cars were submerged, streets turned into streams, farmland flooded and boats were 'torn' from their moorings. Landslides and flooding have disrupted rail services on many routes out of London, as well as in south-west England into Wales.
Ken Button, in Newark-on-Trent, pumped water out of the furniture store where he worked: “It was a bad start.
to Heavy rains also left other parts of Europe under waterA cold wave hit the northern parts of the continent.
Water levels were extremely high in the Netherlands this Friday. Several floodplains in the country were inundated and residents of some towns around the Ijsselmeer inland sea near Amsterdam used sandbags to protect their homes.
According to local broadcaster NH Nieuws, several Ukrainian refugees were evacuated overnight from a hotel near the town of Monnikendam, north of Amsterdam. Several roads in the north and northwest of the Netherlands were closed on Friday due to flooding.
In France, the highest flood warning was withdrawn as water receded near the Belgian border. But floods hit the same part of France in November, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated and thousands of homes damaged. French officials have warned that waterways will be very high for the next few weeks.
In the UK, when Storm Hank arrived with heavy rain, the ground was already saturated from a series of autumn storms. Even with the arrival of dry weather, hundreds of flood warnings were issued this Friday, and the Environment Agency warned that flooding could continue for another five days.
“There's really nowhere for the water to go. The land is completely saturated, so in this situation, there's more flooding and more damage than we've seen, and people may be in areas they're not used to,” the agency's flood director, Caroline Douglas, warned the BBC. Station. Almost all of England's rivers are listed as exceptionally high by the agency, and some have set records.
Residents over the age of 55 were evacuated from a caravan park in Nottinghamshire where the River Trent burst its banks. Firefighters have helped evacuate around 50 people from their homes after a canal burst in Hackney Wick, east London. Aerial images showed where narrow rivers spilled out of their beds and spread to the lower ground.
