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If your country has a flood informing (when flooding is expected) oregon terrible flood informing (when there’s a information to life):

• turn disconnected your gas, energy and h2o supplies, if it’s harmless to bash truthful - bash not interaction an electrical power if you’re lasting successful water
• move your family, vehicles, pets and important items to safety, for illustration upstairs oregon to higher ground
• if you person them, usage flood extortion products, for illustration flood barriers oregon aerial ceramic covers
• follow proposal from your section council or the exigency services - you whitethorn beryllium asked to evacuate

You tin get further proposal connected what to bash and however to enactment harmless during a flood from the National Flood Forum or the British Red Cross.

You tin besides talk to a Floodline adviser.

Floodline

Telephone: 0345 988 1188
Textphone: 0345 602 6340
24-hour service

Call 999 if you oregon idiosyncratic other is successful contiguous danger.

Do not locomotion oregon thrust done flood water. Flood h2o whitethorn incorporate sewage and fell rubbish, wreckage, uneven roads and pavements oregon breached drain and manhole covers.

To report:

• an electrical hazard oregon powerfulness cut, interaction your local energy company or telephone 105 (calls are free)
• a state leak, contact National Gas
• an overflowing sewer, interaction your water company

You whitethorn request a licence to pump h2o retired of a property. If you privation to pump the h2o into:

• rivers, ditches oregon watercourses (for illustration a brook oregon mill stream), cheque with your local Environment Agency office
• public sewers, cheque with your water company
• street drains, highways of road ditches, cheque with the section highways authorization or National Highways

You tin inquire your local occurrence brigade for assistance pumping retired water. They mightiness complaint a interest and tin assistance you get a permit.

Trains

• Between Broxbourne and Stansted Airport/Audley End: Owing to aggregate fallen trees damaging electrical overhead wire, trains are presently not moving betwixt these stations
• Between Reading and Plymouth: Flooding, caused by dense rain, has resulted successful the closure of the enactment successful respective places
• Between London Paddington and South Wales: Train services are taxable to terrible disruption owed to flooding
• Between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth: Heavy rainfall has flooded the railway and trains are incapable to tally betwixt Newton Abbot and Plymouth
• Between Swindon and Bristol Parkway/Bath Spa: Heavy rainfall has flooded the railway present and the enactment has been closed for information reasons
• Between Gloucester and Bristol Parkway: A responsibility with the signalling strategy means each lines betwixt the 2 stations are closed. Trains moving done the country volition beryllium delayed
• Between Liskeard and Looe: Heavy rainfall has flooded the railway, closing each lines
• Between Plymouth and Gunnislake: Heavy rainfall has besides flooded the railway, closing each lines

West Midlands Railway says that "due to flooding successful Northampton, services crossed the Birmingham - Northampton - London Euston way and Crewe - Rugby - London Euston betwixt are taxable to terrible disruption this morning".

Roads

• The A5 successful Northamptonshire is closed successful some directions betwixt the A43 (Towcester) and A422/A508 (Old Stratford)
• The A66 betwixt North Yorkshire and Cumbria is closed to high-sided and susceptible vehicles successful some directions
• The M32 successful Bristol is closed successful some directions betwixt J1 adjacent Hambrook and M4 J19