Battered floods in Britain hours
United Kingdom was braced for more severe flooding Wednesday, the Environment Agency warned that heavy rains forecast, a few days after the worst storms in the country for more than a decade.In order to 7 pm (0700 GMT), the Agency has 24 warnings against severe floods - the feeling of a direct threat to the life and property - 12 rivers across the country.
“The severity of flooding warnings are still in force this morning on the Severn River and rivers in Yorkshire, where the persistence of the threat by the floods remains high,” the agency said in a statement.
“In large flows south levels are high, but remain stable or rise slowly. More rain forecast, however, is today and the rest of the week”.
On the Severn, a great river to the west of England, the town of Shrewsbury has been severely affected by floods in downtown attend later on Wednesday.
In Yorkshire, North-East of England, the city of Leeds was flooded by the river Aire, for the first time since 1946. On the culmination of the Environment Agency, said angeschwollen the river was 150 tons of water per second through the city.
York is the story of a better management of water from the River Ouse and the city is costly to protect floods, the central defence, although floods in remote areas near the river. In the South East England, flooded earlier in October, then click once the storm has swept through southern England on Sunday and Monday Medway remained high, but spent a night of protection against flood without incident.
Outlook outstanding
“The image of the consequences, it is not, in other periods of rain,” said spokesman Colin Donnelly Meteorological Office.
“I know this is not good news for many people.” Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has invited the storm - the worst to take Great Britain since October 1987 - “wake-up call.” He said that the government of new guidelines to limit buildings in areas at risk of flooding.
According to the Environment Agency Emer O’Connell, there are five million people live in the two million households in built-up areas alluvial river in England and Wales.
The extent of flooding, nor the chaos as Director General of Railways Railtrack mass supported by a study on ways of cracks in the hair.
Many services have found Wednesday, but there were still line closures in affected areas.
First Great Western Trains, operators of the High-Speed Service Bristol to London South Wales has been warning not to leave passengers. The main line was closed by floods and other users of the highway was blocked after two freight trains collided in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Typhoon kills four in Taiwan
In Asia, a hurricane, which may have played a role in the crash of a Singapore Airlines plane at Taiwan has a wavelength close to the island on Wednesday afternoon, after leaving a trail of death and desolation.
Four people were killed by the storm, landslides also buried, a man of 84 years, government officials on Wednesday. Comment on the number of people trapped in a landslide 10 to examine the scene.
Four people were killed, 10 injured and two missing as the storm swept the island. Three were killed in a landslide, while a death in a car accident after the beating of trees beside the road.
Among the hypothermia, 48, a construction worker on a dam was washed away in a flood of autumn and a family of five, whose ensemble was demolished the house of water, the Interior Ministry centre the reaction of Hurricane said.
Weather, games false, “said the hurricane, packing maximum wind speed of 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts of up to 155 kph (96 mph), lost strength and Taiwan .
In 0300, he was GMT 910 kilometers (570 miles) north-east of Ilan County, on the north coast of the island.
Schools and administrations in several cities and counties were closed because the storm, but financial markets and the central government has been open.
The Taipei suburb of Hsichih were flooded with water higher, as a word in some areas, television showed recordings.
The international airport in Taiwan, was closed hours after the crash, it was on Wednesday, but many flights were canceled or moved.
The Central Weather Bureau urged people in mountain regions to be bidding on the fall of floods and landslides.
Xangsane killed at least 26 people in the Philippines, with 50 missing and 230 wounded, before the northern tip of Taiwan.
Taiwan is often taken by typhoons, with a half-dozen on the island this year.
In August, Typhoon Bilis killed and 11 wounded in Taiwan 110 to weaken before tropical storm as it continues in the country China.
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