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Rain storms cause flash flooding
Emergency services have had to answer hundreds of flooding calls overnight after torrential rainstorms. Carmarthenshire, the Swansea Valley, the Cynon Valley and Maesteg were worse hit. Pontarddulais Comprehensive school is closed to pupils on Monday.
The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service received about 400 calls in while the South Wales service dealt with almost another 50 in a few hours. The Environment Agency has four flood warnings in place. In Trebanos in the Swansea Valley, one family of two adults and seven children had to be rescued from a house after water rushed down from the hills flooding the house.
Jane Jordan, who lives next door, described how she and her young daughter escaped the flooding. I had my 11-year-old daughter here upstairs. I couldn't open my front door because of the volume of water on the other side of it. The choice was that we went out through an upstairs window onto a plastic roof or I go through all the water and out through the bathroom window, and that's what we did in the end.
My daughter had to be lifted out and then I was lifted out as well. In Pontarddulais, a number of homes and shops were flooded as well as classrooms at the comprehensive school. Headteacher John Radford said the school will be closed on Monday.
It is approximately two or three inches at its deepest, but it's really right across all our classroom areas, our collection areas. More...
©BBC | Gewijzigd: 24 april 2017, 09:47 uur, door Joyce.s
Emergency services have had to answer hundreds of flooding calls overnight after torrential rainstorms. Carmarthenshire, the Swansea Valley, the Cynon Valley and Maesteg were worse hit. Pontarddulais Comprehensive school is closed to pupils on Monday.
The Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service received about 400 calls in while the South Wales service dealt with almost another 50 in a few hours. The Environment Agency has four flood warnings in place. In Trebanos in the Swansea Valley, one family of two adults and seven children had to be rescued from a house after water rushed down from the hills flooding the house.
Jane Jordan, who lives next door, described how she and her young daughter escaped the flooding. I had my 11-year-old daughter here upstairs. I couldn't open my front door because of the volume of water on the other side of it. The choice was that we went out through an upstairs window onto a plastic roof or I go through all the water and out through the bathroom window, and that's what we did in the end.
My daughter had to be lifted out and then I was lifted out as well. In Pontarddulais, a number of homes and shops were flooded as well as classrooms at the comprehensive school. Headteacher John Radford said the school will be closed on Monday.
It is approximately two or three inches at its deepest, but it's really right across all our classroom areas, our collection areas. More...
©BBC | Gewijzigd: 24 april 2017, 09:47 uur, door Joyce.s
Several roads closed by flooding
Large areas of the West Midlands region have been hit by flooding following heavy rain on Sunday. Several roads were hit and six flood warnings are in place on the Alne, Leam and Stour rivers in Warwickshire and the River Avon in Worcestershire. There are also flood watches on several rivers.
These include the Severn in Shropshire and Worcestershire, the Cole and Rea, in Birmingham, and the Stour and Smestow Brook in south Staffordshire. The A449 between Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Stourton, Staffordshire, has been blocked in places.
Motorists rescued
In Herefordshire, the A4110 and Paytoe Lane, in Leintwardine, the C1001 at Buckton, the A4110 between Bainstree Cross and Lawton Cross and the C1032 between Pembridge and Kingspan are all closed while the A4113 between Walford and Leintwardine is passable with care.
In Shropshire, the A49 at Bromfield and Craven Arms, the A458 at Morville, the Bridgnorth to Ludlow road and the main road through Highley were hit by flooding. Firefighters were also called out to help after a car and its occupants got stuck in the ford at Burlington, just off the A5 near Sherrifhales.
They also helped move cars to safety after they got stuck in floodwater in Albrighton, near Shifnal, at Neen Savage near Cleobury Mortimer and another on the Hodnet to Marchamley Road. Rushall Close, in Audnam, Stourbridge, West Midlands, was also hit by flooding for the third time in three weeks.
Flood warnings are in place on the following rivers:
* River Alne at Aston Cantlow
* River Alne at Wootton Wawen
* River Avon from Evesham to upstream of Tewkesbury
* River Leam at Leamington Spa
* River Leam between Marton and Leamington Spa
* River Stour from Shipston-on-Stour to Clifford Chambers
©BBC | Gewijzigd: 24 april 2017, 09:47 uur, door Joyce.s
Large areas of the West Midlands region have been hit by flooding following heavy rain on Sunday. Several roads were hit and six flood warnings are in place on the Alne, Leam and Stour rivers in Warwickshire and the River Avon in Worcestershire. There are also flood watches on several rivers.
These include the Severn in Shropshire and Worcestershire, the Cole and Rea, in Birmingham, and the Stour and Smestow Brook in south Staffordshire. The A449 between Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Stourton, Staffordshire, has been blocked in places.
Motorists rescued
In Herefordshire, the A4110 and Paytoe Lane, in Leintwardine, the C1001 at Buckton, the A4110 between Bainstree Cross and Lawton Cross and the C1032 between Pembridge and Kingspan are all closed while the A4113 between Walford and Leintwardine is passable with care.
In Shropshire, the A49 at Bromfield and Craven Arms, the A458 at Morville, the Bridgnorth to Ludlow road and the main road through Highley were hit by flooding. Firefighters were also called out to help after a car and its occupants got stuck in the ford at Burlington, just off the A5 near Sherrifhales.
They also helped move cars to safety after they got stuck in floodwater in Albrighton, near Shifnal, at Neen Savage near Cleobury Mortimer and another on the Hodnet to Marchamley Road. Rushall Close, in Audnam, Stourbridge, West Midlands, was also hit by flooding for the third time in three weeks.
Flood warnings are in place on the following rivers:
* River Alne at Aston Cantlow
* River Alne at Wootton Wawen
* River Avon from Evesham to upstream of Tewkesbury
* River Leam at Leamington Spa
* River Leam between Marton and Leamington Spa
* River Stour from Shipston-on-Stour to Clifford Chambers
©BBC | Gewijzigd: 24 april 2017, 09:47 uur, door Joyce.s
