Dramatic video shows scale of flash flooding in south east England
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Parts of Britain have been struck by flash floods after some areas saw more than a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours.
Heavy rainfall has seen parts of Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and London submerged causing widespread travel disruption and damage to properties.
According to the Environment Agency, at least 45 properties have flooded across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Kent and the Home Counties.
As of 11.45am, 17 flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected - were issued for England by the Environment Agency.
Areas affected by the flood warnings include Childswickham in Worcestershire, Leighton Buzzard and Luton in Bedfordshire and parts of London including South Ruislip.
National Highways confirmed the A421 in Bedfordshire was closed in both directions between A6 Bedford and M1 J13 near Marston Moretaine due to flooding. Bedfordshire Police said it had closed off part of Dunstable High Street due to “substantial flooding”, with footage shared on social media showing cars battling high water around the Saracen’s Head pub.
AFC Wimbledon and Newcastle’s Carabao Cup third-round meeting on Tuesday has been called off due to “extensive overnight flooding” at the Cherry Red Records Stadium.
The Dons’ stadium, which also appears to have a sinkhole in the pitch, is now closed as a result, with a rescheduled date for the tie yet to be confirmed.
Rain warnings were in place all weekend with a fresh yellow alert coming into effect at midnight to last all of Monday, covering parts of Wales, much of the south of England, the Midlands and into north-west England and Yorkshire.
An amber warning came into force at 5am and will last until 11.59pm.
It initially covered Worcester, Birmingham, Nottingham and Hull but an update from the Met Office said the warning area had shifted further south and southwest. This includes Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire.
Some affected areas will see 60-80mm of rain through Monday - while a few places could see in excess of 120mm, the Met Office said.
Forecasters also said there may be more warnings in the week ahead.
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" You can't park there , mate.."
No hose pipe ban then ?
Have they tried jailing the people warning about this sort of stuff? That makes it it go away doesn’t it?
No but they have jailed criminals for wrecking priceless artworks and for causing huge traffic jams by blocking the PUBLIC HIGHWAYS...
Looks like the flooding at the beginning. Was caused by the local council failing to clean and maintain their drains.
Why else would they have sent 4 trucks that clean drains. Unless the council drains were blocked. 😉
Same in most places around the country. People taking these jobs in councils are clueless and loads on the take.
It's a popularity contest
Labour run one's are by far the worst for it.
There are water activated pumps in the drainage system for this underpass, but doubt they could cope with what was probably several months worth of rain in a few hours, plus all the run off from the fields
@@ftroop2000 Bedford and Northampton are Tory run. Both are as bad as each other.
Oh no it rained, fix the drains
The drains work fine. There's just too much water for them to deal with
@@jasonallen6081not correct .too much building nearby has caused this . apparently developers told about this but people don't listen
@sf2942 what do you mean " not correct"? There are thousands of flooded houses in the south of England and you can't see past a small stretch of road. Type in "floods UK " add any year, and you will see footage of flooding in pretty much every part of the UK. We're tormented by them every year. We've ruined the natural drainage of the land with hundreds of years of civil engineering works and over efficient drainage of the Moorlands. If we have a wet autumn and winter, we are going to have yet more flooding, costing millions more to fix. Usually in the run up to Christmas.
@@jasonallen6081 It's still flooded now, no it's not that. The drains must be blocked.
@@alunjones3860 With muddy runoff from the fields.
The south east?? Bedford and Northampton??!!!!
South of Watford gap..
Building a road in a flood plain then blaming the weather LOL
RIP car 🚗
Mother nature,, she's a single woman, don't mess with her , she'll come for you and when she does you'd better be ready ,ooh yeah leave your umbrellas at home it's tooo late.....
Let's not get to the root of the problem as to why these flash floods are happening; ya know, correct drainage systems, which are regularly maintained - just blame climate change.
And weather manipulation
There's too much water coming from the higher ground far too quickly.
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How on earth did that car get caught in the dip in the road? Did they try to drive through it, or were they parked there? How?
Time for starmer to fire his environment secretary
The boats coming over are causing to much water displacement. (I don’t actually believe this)
People in Thailand must think we're bonkers - try dealing with your entire town being washed away.
I thought this was on the tools
how long is it since the local councils did any maintenance / clearing of the drains in your area ... in mine none however I live on the coast where Southern Water willy nilly discharges all effluent into the sea
The BBC blames Brexit.
(I've edited the comment. Some people didn't get the joke about Starmer blaming the far right.)
When did he blame the far right for this?
I think that's what passes as wit amongst the far right.
@@alansmith4748 Sorry, I've edited the wording.
@@FredScuttle456 it was funnier the first time.
@@tentringer4065 I thought so too, but I don't want to needlessly upset people who are timid and fragile. If soy-fed people are traumatised by my first comment, I'll happily tone it down.
Send post 10 blocked drain on underpass due yo council failure yo clean drains result , send in the sub
So thats dramatic eh.....
Jetzt geht's der Menschheit an den Kragen!😊
Woo that's bad.
geoengineer by chance 🤔💭💨⚡☔🌧️🌩️🤫
More climate bs.
On the video I've just watched there was no mention of the climate. My video had no commentary on it at all
It’s climate bs caused by us and there will be much more of it.
Weather warfare.
Bloody immigrants coming over here with their floods
This much knowledge you have in your brain.
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Clean drains and dredged rivers would stop this 👍🏻. Unfortunately, the bstrds who own the sewage companies are only interested in skimming profits.
Watching flood now on TH-cam by internet 🛜
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clean the drains out. financially insolvent county councils continue to be unfit for purpose.
Can't drains become blocked immediately in a flood?
Bill G4tes chalk-experiment. W⚓