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Homeowners told to pack up and leave home IMMEDIATELY as Storm Frank lashes western half of Britain with 80mph gales and the North and Scotland are deluged by a month's rain in one day
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Homeowners across the flood-hit north of England are being told to pack up and leave home immediately as Storm Frank threatens to topple flood defences once again when it brings nearly a month's worth of rain today. Britain's sixth named storm swept in off the Atlantic overnight and is causing carnage across the UK from the south west of England right up to Scotland. Areas such as Porthleven in Cornwall (top right), Plymouth in Devon (bottom right) and Wales are currently being battered by winds of up to 80mph, while flooded communities across the North including in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria (bottom left) are facing up to six inches of rain. Thousands of homes across Scotland and Northern Ireland remain without power this morning after the storm swept in overnight, and residents across Lancashire are being urged to evacuate their properties amid 'danger to life' flood warnings. The storm is already causing carnage elsewhere in the country, including on the M74 in South Lanarkshire (centre) where cars were floating down the road today after the motorway was engulfed with floodwater. A woman was also injured after being trapped in her car when a tree was blown onto it as she travelled along the A174 in Middlesbrough (top left), and the A49 near Chorley, Lancashire, has been blocked after trees fell across the main carriageway.
