a second weekend of prolonged heavy rain
has brought flooding in areas across the
country the Environment Agency said it
expected significant flooding to
continue into the next week there are
currently four hundred and nine flood
alerts across England Scotland and Wales
with 339 flood warnings six severe flood
warnings are still in place meaning
there's a danger to life fall on the
river team and two in South Wales
including the river tough at Ponte
breath' our home affairs correspondent
Andy Davis is in Nant guru tonight Andy
well rescue workers here today told me
that they hadn't seen anything like it
in decades dozens of residents in this
village have now been moved out as the
flood levels finally begin to drop but
the scale of the flooding across Wales
has caused huge disruption in this
county borough alone the council leader
told us today that more than 500
residential properties have been flooded
it could be as many as a thousand
they're still getting reports coming in
and as far as the damage is concerned it
was so serious that South Wales police
declared a major incident this afternoon
and the fact that the Met Office issued
a rare red warning gives you some
indication of just how much concern
there's been some very dramatic scenes
overnight particularly in Ponte brief
where the river there's reached its
highest level in over 40 years and I was
chatting to a man there in one of the
streets who told me how in the early
hours this morning he grabbed the hand
of a passing taxi driver hauled him out
of his car moments before the car was
swept into the river the Welsh
government has tonight said that it will
be giving extra cash to councils to deal
with the aftermath of storm Denis but
one end of the street they were being
helped to safety that the other amidst
the collection of abandoned cars
the rescue operation continued
some had to be stretchered out many of
them elderly others were carried a
constant stream of flood of a qyz cold
and exhausted
what's the scene inside pretty bad it
came down to where I'm six or four came
back to about my waist so it's pretty it
deep but we might scare the back we had
the phone call at five o'clock this
morning to see if we could do anything
rescue the dogs basically one
unfortunately passed away and we managed
to save Mary and we're going to take her
to the vets now it's not gary's
residents are taken to one of the area's
three emergency centers and the boats
keep coming
others like michael smith the owner of
ms autos garage surveys the damage sixty
seventy thousand pounds into this
equipment equipment let alone all the
cars and at the same time it's just
absolutely devastating and it's still so
many people out this Afra well they're
seven hours into this particular
operation and they're still bringing out
residents South Wales Fire and Rescue
have just stated that since midnight
they've received over a thousand calls
this was the scene in Creek Howell 20
miles away the Coast Guard sends in a
helicopter to take out the last person
on site at a caravan park the river
asked like others across Wales bursting
its banks overnight he's winch to safety
others in the village reported flooding
at ceiling level
parts of Wales saw more than 150
millimeters of rainfall in 48 hours far
exceeding the average monthly total in
the Neath Valley this is what some
residents awoke to in Ponte pre that was
car parks flowing like waterfalls more
than 600 people had been evacuated from
homes in Ron token and Taff last night
this street saw cars swept away this
morning opposite where the wall had
collapsed residents like Linda Davis had
been clearing up since dawn it smashed
the warden but it was the speed that the
water was flowing it was a terrific
speed yes a bit scary it was very very
scary
very very scary what did you find when
he came into the house this morning was
just complete wreckage
I mean it's every inch he's a skip full
well we've lost just lost he Pat's and
why like one cat we found dad
and yet I think the neighbors got thrown
one and then she had three and the other
ones missing too we've just buried the
one in the garden up here
we've just buried the one cat further
downstream in tafs well images of
flooded playgrounds and club houses
replicated scenes elsewhere these fields
are near the center of Cardiff and among
the most traumatic images of the day
this landslide on a hill near Tyler's
town in the Rhondda Valley tonight
engineers are monitoring the hill for
signs of further movement and that could
mean yet more properties being evacuated
Andy Davis reporting there well the
threat for many communities remains this
evening our weather presenter liam dust
enjoins us now from South Wales Liam
thanks Jackie Willis we've just seen
there's been a massive amount of rain
falling here in South Wales in the last
24 hours six inches of rain falling in
some spots and that's rain has fallen on
ground it's already saturated from the
rainfall that we had the storm killer
last weekend so it's no surprise that
the Met Office issued its highest tier
red level warning for
the first time in a number of years and
there's been hundreds of flood warnings
and flood alerts across the UK including
some severe flood warnings as well now
it's not just being here in South Wales
that's being badly hit over the border
into Herefordshire there's been some
serious flooding as well parts of
Shropshire we've got some pictures tears
show in this situation in Worcestershire
so the flooding has been serious and
over quite a big area but on a more
positive note things are going to calm
down in the next couple of days all of
the rain warnings in association with
storm dennis expire at 9 p.m. this
evening and then for Monday Tuesday and
Wednesday the rainfall in the form of
showers so not the prolonged heavy rain
that we've seen and that will hopefully
allow the river levels to fall down and
people to start to clear up