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Hundreds evacuated amid northern England floods
Heavy rains are expected to affect Calderdale, Airedale (from Skipton to Leeds) and North Yorkshire including York, Pateley Bridge and Catterick.
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“Unfortunately many areas that were affected during Storm Desmond have been flooded again”.
Police in the York area 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of London advised more than 300 people to leave their homes because of rising river waters.
Soldiers were deployed in the city this morning to help with sandbagging and were also sent to Cawood, North Yorkshire, to help with evacuations. The additional personnel are being deployed on Sunday while another 1,500 are on standby in Yorkshire.
David Cameron pledged to review spending on flood defences after chairing a conference call of the government’s emergency Cobra committee today.
Members of the Army and rescue teams wade through floodwater after the River Ouse and the River Foss burst their banks, in York city center, England, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015.
Thousands of homes are being evacuated in York, after the flood barrier protecting the city was lifted last night.
But John Hammond, Met Office advisor, said things aren’t expected to be as bad as they were over Christmas, when torrential rain caused widespread disruption across the county.
The British government has held emergency talks as “unprecedented” flooding forced hundreds of people to leave their homes in northern England, including in the historic tourist town of York.
Eleven flood warnings have been issued in Scotland covering the Borders and Tayside areas. “Many driven from their homes” he said, “Keep praying”.
Water had entered the Foss Barrier’s building, which had put pumps in danger of failing due to electrical problems, according to The Environment Agency.
A second red weather warning – danger to life – has been issued by the Met Office as Lancashire and Yorkshire are hit by severe floods.
“At the moment in our house it’s ankle deep”, she said.
A spokesman said: “There is though a lot of flood damage and so roads are hard to access”.
In North Wales, Red Cross volunteers are using 4x4s to transport doctors and nurses to Bangor Hospital following flooding of the A55 and surrounding roads.
She said: “We didn’t think it would reach us because we’re raised off the ground and have three storeys but, by this morning, it was on the steps and it is going to rise by lunchtime”.
Flooding in the western half of England is becoming a regular winter event, and Cameron’s critics have accused the government of cutting back or delaying flood defence programmes as it tries to bring down the country’s budget deficit.
Emergency services in the Greater Manchester are now concentrating their efforts on a recovery operation, with water levels beginning to fall after the rain stopped.
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Around 10,000 homes in the region were without power after a substation was damaged, and many elderly and other vulnerable people were rescued from inundated homes by lifeboat. We get it in every year but only up to the door and then it recedes.