Getting a right battering tonight

[NorthernRaider]

South lakes area as far as Preston and Morecombe lots of flooding, 55,000 without power since yesterday, Much of lake District under water, thousands displaced, the floods run from Appleby right up in the Eden valley right across to the West coast, two of my wife's relatives are stuck in a hotel in Keswick, Many modern flood defences failed.

Over the east side much of Northumberland is cut off with localised flooding and as far south as Teesside the flood barriers are up in Yarm.

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Preston, Morecombe, Lancaster, Carnforth major power cuts on going since yesterday.
No trains going north from Preston to Scotland
Appleby is a lake, Kendal, Penrith problems with runoff from hills