Storm Jorge: Flood-hit areas braced for more heavy rain

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Better than 80 flood warnings are in plan across England as Storm Jorge threatens to bring extra devastation to flood-hit areas.

Engineers performedrepairing flood defencesin Ironbridge, Shropshire and Bewdley in Worcestershire on Friday.

The Atmosphere Agency (EA) warns river ranges will upward push again following heavy rainfall in the Welsh mountains.

Alternatively a severeflood warningfor the River Severn at Ironbridge became downgraded on Friday lunchtime.

There are six yellowclimate warningsfor rain, wind and snow in force across the UK for Saturday, because the nation prepares for the original storm.

England has had higher than 200% of its practical February rainfall, essentially based on the EA, with some areas receiving a month’s price of rainfall in 24 hours.

It acknowledged 1,000 workers per day had been engaged on flood defences and pumps, clearing debris and repairing damaged defences.

In components of East Yorkshire on Friday,residents accept as true with been evacuated from their homesas floodwater ranges rose without discover.

Dave Throup, from the EA praised the “Herculean efforts” to repair the boundaries in time, but Tim Norton, also from the agency, acknowledged: “We’re no longer out of the woods yet.”

On Friday engineers applied inspections “factual the ability alongside the barrier” and accept as true with been “changing the components that will easy be replaced and getting all of it ready”.

Engineers had been “surely impressed with how the boundaries accept as true with held up”, Mr Norton added.

“Even supposing they moved, despite the indisputable truth that there became some injury, they easy did their job.

“We’re assured they’ll present surely lawful protection in the arrival days,” he added.