Storm Desmond has left at least 60,000 homes in the United Kingdom without power since it swept in from the Atlantic.
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We had no real warning because it’s never been as bad as this.
The treacherous conditions prompted a meeting of the government’s emergency committee, Cobra, on Sunday.
A cold front will move across the Isles on Tuesday bringing showers to eastern areas and lengthier spells of rain from western Scotland to Wales and western England.
In London, the heavy winds caused a fatality when a 90-year-old man was believed to have been blown into the side of a moving bus by a gust of wind, near Finchley Central Tube station.
There have been calls for the implementation of a flood mitigation plan in the Finn Valley area, after it was hit for the second time inside a month. Electricity North West said that it had restored power to 24,000 homes by the evening.
Meanwhile, a spokesman from the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) said: “NWAS has been operating under extremely challenging circumstance with severe floods in Cumbria and Lancashire preventing access to many parts of the counties”.
In the Cumbrian town of Kendal, police divers are investigating reports that an elderly man has fallen into the River Kent and in Carlisle, Army troops have been helping carry people to safety. It is important people continue to heed the advice of the emergency services. “That’s an extra £2.3 billion of capital investment to help our most at-risk communities”.
Cumbria County Council leader Stewart Young told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “There does need to be an investigation into the flood defences”.
An appeal by Cumbria Community Foundation to raise £1 million to support vulnerable individuals and families who have been badly affected by the floods is under way and has already raised well over £100,000. “In some areas of Cumbria where possible we are asking members to call back once the flood water has subsided”.
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