More residents evacuated as flooding continues in parts of northern England

Military personnel were mobilised on Sunday to help people in Yorkshire and Lancashire and phone lines and internet connections have been disrupted.

On Saturday, people in 3,500 York properties near the River Foss, a tributary of the Ouse, were advised to move belongings upstairs and to be ready to leave.

Floods Minister Rory Stewart said rainfall in the affected areas is unprecedented.

After chairing a conference call of the COBRA emergency committee on the floods, he said the situation for many was “incredibly serious”.

Another 1,000 soldiers were being kept on standby, Cameron said.

Over 7,000 homes in Greater Manchester and Lancashire were also without electricity due to flood damage. We are looking at that at the moment.

“The flood barriers have made a difference, both the permanent ones and the temporary ones”. The military along with the police and mountain rescue teams joined forces on Sunday to help evacuate people and reinforce York’s flood defenses with sandbags, as reported by The New York Times.

RESIDENTS and business owners in city centres across northern England face further misery today after “unprecedented” flooding transformed urban streets into canals. Hundreds of families had to leave their homes and 6,000 people were without electricity yesterday.

Days of torrential rain in northern England have caused rivers to burst their banks and flood several villages.

He said in some areas, a month’s worth of rain could fall in one day on ground already saturated from earlier rains.

More than a hundred flood warnings remained in place on Sunday, including 24 severe warnings, which indicate a danger to life, the government said.

The Environment Agency urged residents to remain vigilant because more “severe” flooding is expected overnight and Monday.

“We’re expecting quite a lot of rain across those areas on Wednesday”.

And residents were warned to brace themselves for even more to come as forecasters predicted more rain was on its way.

Hundreds of people were also evacuated in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Whole towns were cut off as the treacherous flooding engulfed densely populated urban areas across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire as well as parts of Scotland and North Wales.

“We are still asking our customers in Rochdale to reduce their energy use to prevent further power outages while our engineers fix the damage”.

He said: “While we must take the measures needed to reduce the threat of climate change, we also need a cross-party approach to securing a long term stable plan for investment in a programme that enables us to adapt to climate change”. Many major routes into York and Selby are now flooded and travel in and around these areas is very challenging. I know [the emergency services] are overstretched.