Storm Gerrit batters UK as drivers face flooded roads and heavy winds
Festive travel plans have been plunged into chaos by Storm Gerrit, with trains and ferries cancelled as snow, heavy rain and gales hit the UK.
Drivers face flooded roads and heavy winds as Storm Gerrit continues to batter the UK.
The Met Office has issued nine weather alerts in force across the UK, in warnings of widespread disruption which came to pass on Wednesday as powerful winds and flooding wrought havoc on public transport.
Flooding on the West Coast main line brought trains to a standstill, hitting routes between Edinburgh and Manchester airport, and Glasgow and Birmingham. Elsewhere, East Midlands Railway trains have been cancelled for the rest of the day, while a signalling fault shut down travel between Luton and London.
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33 comments
Who names these storms that’s what I want to know…
All storms were named "storm" when I was a kid
I slept throughout
There was a storm?
Historic Flooding.. Easily Sorted if the council could be bothered.
Be afraid… hide in your homes…
It's all a fear tactic to keep us all frightened!
Its Winter and there's a storm… 😂
If the drain got cleared by the councils the rain wouldn't be as much trouble but they're a bunch of lazy twats these day's the insurance companies need to start taking councillors to court
Oh please, just a bit of rain and wind.
The only thing battered here in Kidderminster is the fish on my plate.
Cut the military for a few year's and just focus on internal defences and proper modern dwellings . Yes
😢 🙏
The first day of spring = Global boiling.
Its called winter. 😅
Oh look, a video of some weather.
Now that Trump's ballot ban has started to backfire the Independent seems to have gone all silent about it. Hilarious.
All a bid to implement another tax on us…
Cornwall in the winter is always wet and windy because it's normal, the weather today was normal.
Naming storms is american and stupid.
Seen worse years ago , just the global warming lies
No it don't. Sick to death of this rubbish and lies, it doesn't batter the Uk Whatsoever, parts of the UK so FFS grow up and do a weather report not based on lies an guess work
What storm?
Storm??? More like a fart in a bottle
You're hysteria is starting to look silly now
Wow what a storm 😂 just looks like rain an wind to me
Ah wind and rain, i remember that
What unbelievable footage of a wet window. Thanks, Timmy.
OMG !. The world is ending !. It's raining, and windy !. But we still had to go to school in it when I was a kid !. FFS !. Get a bloody grip man.
Every time it rains it’s storm this or storm that 😂
Please lord save us from the awful climate change misery …hysteria 🙏🤡🤡🤡
Just a normal day up here in Cumbria for us. 😂
Gotta push that Climate Change narrative buIIshlt.
Breaking news: England is wet.
Flooded roads lol