More storms misery on the way
Torrential rain and gales battered the West Midlands closing roads, flooding parks and forcing football matches to be cancelled.
Today, weathermen warned there was more to come as flood warnings were issued across the country.
Around 100 people, many of them pensioners, were rescued this morning from flooded homes in Aberdeenshire.
The group was taken to a nearby care centre after the River Deveron burst its banks, resulting in flood waters up to 5ft high.
Today four severe flood warnings and 17 flood warnings were in place, most of them in Scotland and the north of England.
The West Midlands was rocked by winds of 62mph yesterday and almost an inch of rain fell in just seven hours.
Traffic jams snaked along a busy road in Great Barr after a downpour flooded the carriageway. Police had to close Newton Road between West Bromwich and Great Barr until the flood waters had subsided.
Wolves Women FC had their game against Radcliffe Olympic called off due to a waterlogged pitch at their home ground in Stafford Road, Fordhouses, Wolverhampton.
Parts of Redhouse Park in Great Barr were also out of bounds due to flooding.
Express & Star weatherman John Warner said people should now brace themselves for an "onslaught" of wind and rain from the Atlantic.
"Last week was positively balmy and temperatures were up to 5C higher than normal," he said. "But that is all over now and temperatures will drop to 9C (48F).
"It is the wind that is causing the most problems as gusts of 62mph really are quite hazardous."
In Scotland and Wales, train services were cancelled, river banks burst and the match between Dundee United and Rangers was abandoned at half-time because of heavy rain.
