Name: Storm Dennis: severe flooding continues in England and Wales
Uploaded: 2020-03-24T04:41:05.000Z
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the water rose early in the morning to leave parks and streets part hidden by flooding around the center of Hereford.

Yet another case study in the story of the unrelenting February storms, I hear they're having to take a paramedic by boat into a stranded neighborhood.

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They know all about flooding here, but rarely on this scale.

So what we doing now is we're sending folks like to go and rescue people, which we've done since first thing this morning.

We've made approximately 20 to 25 rescue so far.

How many of the residents have Bean moved out?

There's a lot of people that have been moved out is not not very many people left, really.

Emergency service is up and down constantly all day.

And so in the increasingly familiar flood induced choreography, more churches and leisure centres air turned into temporary shelters, the Environment Agency said in places the river why had reached its highest level since records began 200 years ago.

There was a job in here and I've been lonely ran this place for three donkeys in Worcestershire Police searching for a 55 year old woman missing after being swept into flood water by the river team said this evening they found a body By mid morning, more than 500 flood alerts and warnings covered much of England following a record number The day before, this was the scene in Guilford in Sorry and with more flooding came or criticism of the UK government response today, the environment minister said they were committing billions of pounds to flood defences, the flood infrastructure that we have in place.

The flood defense infrastructure has worked as expected and has protected around 20,000 homes in this particular incident.

It'll of sea to the 400 homes that have been flooded.

So the emergency operations are continuing this evening in Hereford.

But in other parts of the UK, which bore the brunt of the weekend storms, it's the aftermath there now having to deal with, particularly in South Wales.

We found business after business immersed in the wreckage of the weekend.

The damage here, Phil Thomas shows us his microbrewery still spewing flood.

This image from the police helicopter shows the scale of the flooding they encountered on just this one industrial estate.

Okay, man walked in through the door with my wife and two kids, and I wasn't.

You know, I've been here for five years, building up the brisk business slowly but surely, And, you know, in one evening this £10,000 with damage, or the first minister of Wales a few miles away.

In Ponta Preys knows there's also major infrastructure damage beyond the chaos at street level, where for some residents it's still a struggle to access that properties.

Obviously it's come up to the six foot on the wall, absolutely devastated.

Kerry Loveridge woke up on the sofa, surrounded by water.

Like others, she feels warnings could have been clearer.

We are literally gonna be out to this house for it's gonna be about six months, if not longer.

And now here it supplied come Marie, accusing a Labour government of underinvestment in flood defences.

Some are asking questions about whether your government has got a grip on this issue.

Well, no government could have predicted what happened here over the weekend.

This government will spend £350 million in this assembly term alone on flood defenses in Wales.

Back in Hereford, the flood levels and now slowly receding but a neighboring was to share the threat of rising water remains.

As we enter yet another night of people being told to leave their homes well.

Gray Friar's Avenue here is usually a pretty pleasant place to live just yards from the town centre and not far from the river.

But with that river at its highest level in 200 years, people living here on a floodplain have had to leave, grabbing what they can of their belongings.

I spent the afternoon with one family Ferried back to check on their home by their neighbor and volunteer flood warden.

This quiet, little colder sack in Hereford is today a backwater in all senses of the word storm.

Why, at the bottom of the street to record high levels and householders like teaching assistant Lydia Williams have been forced from their homes.

Since the last time my house didn't get flooded, it just missed out on it.

But as soon as me and my mom saw it coming in and went back to sleep, and then we woke up to all our downstairs underwater just so shocked neighbor and volunteer flood warden Colin Taylor is steering has passed the floating Detroiters to the house where Lydia's lived with her parents for six years.

He's never seen anything like this was the biggest.

That was the biggest fall on our second biggest always brought on record.

Lydia's mom didn't want to make the journey back because she was too upset to see the damage flooding has done to the home.

They lovingly renovated a new kitchen completed just four months ago, that crushed over in the middle of the night that it was this morning, Um, that toppled over inside floated so you can still have certainty that is, in the dining room.

There's Maur devastation, a sodden mess of photo albums.

The memories within in danger of being washed clean away, you can see or your family belongings will just vanish.

And something like photos, stables Precious to you.

Back on dry land, we meet Lydia's mom, Lindsay.

Well, it's the first time it's ever flooded, and it's the first time I've been in this situation.

So I just thought if I went back now, it would probably really upset me because it's, you know, it's still a bit of a shock to think that I'm not going home tonight to sit.

This street was built on a flood plain in the 19 thirties, when Lydia's family bought it.

They knew it was a risk, but until last night it had never flooded so badly.

It'll be months before they can return their home to some semblance of normality.

Now they're wondering if this is the new normal.

Well, joining me now is Mark Garnier, the MP for wire for it, a neighboring constituency which has flooded in the past on the Reverend Wreath.

Why here is at its highest level since records began.

More than it's already doing to protect people here and in your constituency?

Well, good news is in my constituency, actually going back as far as Tony Blair's government, they brought in some demand.

Herbal flood barriers in beautifully on that type of approach is incredibly good.

One of the important things I think we are promising is an extra £4 billion spent over the next five years on what I think we want to defend on flood defences.

What we want to see is more of this type of the mandible flood defences.

It could come in, but where you can't do the amount herbal flood defences.

You wanna have property level defenses, so there's lots of different ways you can approach it.

And I think taking a sort of cohesive approach to this is the way forward.

Would you like the prime minister to visit here with that help?

What I really want is George Eustice to carry on, do the job.

Sexual Rebecca Power in my patch yesterday.

It's great having the prime minister, and it looks good on telly.

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