Taken from BBC website.
The Environment Agency has five flood warnings in place in south-west England, a region currently in drought.
It said flooding was expected on parts of the Middle Stour, Doniford Stream, River Clyst, River Axe and River Taw.
Residents have been told to take “immediate action” to protect themselves and their property.
Flood alerts were in place in 42 areas of England and there was one flood warning and four flood alerts in northern and eastern Scotland.Some areas saw up to 50mm (2in) of rain overnight and on Wednesday morning.
Showers are predicted across the whole of the UK for the rest of the week
Fluvial Innovations comment:
Sandbagging still seems to be the last port of call for immediate flood protection. However there is extremely strong evidence that using sandbags to assemble flood defences to protect property is completely ineffective.
Problems with sandbags:
- Time consuming and labour intensive to assemble into flood defences
- Prone to leakage
- Can only be used once, not reusable
- Viral and bacterial infections often present in flood water get transposed onto the porous hessian sacks.