Flooding destroys homes across Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire as Storm Henk continues to strike

GB News reporter Jack Carson shares the latest from Ironbridge in Shropshire, as Storm Henk continues to cause extreme weather conditions across the country.

A major incident has been declared in Nottinghamshire as flooding surges across the northern regions.

Flooding has been reported in Gloucestershire, Shrewsbury, and parts of Worcester as defences fail to hold water back from people’s homes.

Britons are being forced to build their own flood defences as the River Severn’s banks have burst, with water levels continuing to rise.

Speaking to GB News, Jack Carson revealed: “Any kind of rainfall, whether it’s minimal or even as we saw yesterday up in some places up to 35 millimetres of rainfall, it can’t of course soak into the ground and so it’s just standing on top and that’s causing a lot of the severe flooding that we’re getting across the Midlands.

“Of course in Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City Council declaring that major incident because of the rising levels on the River Trent. Now that essentially is because a lot of the other tributary rivers around it, including the River Derwent to go into the Trent, they are already at their peak levels.

“And so by the time that water forces and pushes its way through into the Trent, those rising levels are causing concern. We know people have been evacuated already from parts of Nottingham and of course many, many flood warnings already in place, over 300 flood warnings across the country already in place today, expecting people to be on alert, ready possibly of course for evacuation.”

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