It’s flooded here before. The Environment Agency still has flood warnings in place for parts of Greater Manchester on Monday morningParts of Greater Manchester are still on alert for more flooding this morning - after 24 hours of torrential rain caused havoc across large parts of the region.Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue service had more than 100 emergency call outs in 24 hours. That’s very scary. Flooding in Greater Manchester: Road closures, latest warnings and weather updates - LIVE. https://twitter.com/RebeccaDayMEN/status/1155749423156277249The Y Club gym remains shut this morning due to flooding. Fire crew remained in attendance for around two hours and 30 minutes.Ursula Griffiths, 21, lives on a boat opposite Y Club. The Freeholder of the property, Idealsite, has also been advised.The building is in 2 blocks with fire damage to the rear block only. LIVE: Flooding in Greater Manchester and Cheshire - latest warnings, weather and travel news. The Environment Agency still has flood warnings in place for parts of Greater Manchester … She said they are all mucking in to clear it up.
- M60 anticlockwise: One lane closed due to accident on M60 anticlockwise from J25 A560 Crookilley Way (Brinnington) to J24 A57 ( Denton Island). Manchester has been hit by floods after heavy rain continued over the weekend. Flooding affected businesses in the Dale Street and Kiln Lane area of Milnrow in Rochdale.
She’s going to need new flooring in her kitchen after the water got in.“The road was like a river.
The water ran down my drive and into the house.“The fire brigade were here for two hours pumping out but even they couldn’t keep on top of it.”A spokesperson from the Environment Agency has urged people to sign up to their flood alerts. This was Crownpoint shopping centre in Denton earlier today.At one point a child could be seen swimming in this huge puddle in the car park of the centre.- M62 eastbound: Two lanes closed due to flooding from J18 M60 J18 (Simister Island) to J19 A6046 Middleton Road (Heywood).- M67 eastbound: Entry slip road closed due to flooding at J3 A627 Clark Way (Hyde). The river levels look much higher than usual with water spilling over the edge of the bank in some places. It was a huge amount of water.’ “People were trying to speed down the road and they clipped me in their car while I was on the pavement. It’s the fear you have for the people around you.’ This is Janine Walker.
Council workers opened up a manhole outside the home at 1am to clear the water. It was raining to such an extent the drains couldn’t keep up’.‘At 1.30am I woke up, I saw a police van. Vehicles parked in roadway affected by flooding. Sandbags outside the Y Club, in Castlefield, which is shut this morning. We had fire brigade, police, ambulance, everything down here last night’Carol Hamlett and Reece Samuels are amongst staff at the Y Club in Castlefield pumping dirty water out from the gym basement The floors below have considerable water damage.We will be posting news throughout the weekend as we gather more information.For any urgent enquiries we have a contact e mail address below - Staff at the Environment Agency have been visiting and speaking to residents affected by the floods in Sale.There are no longer any flood warnings in place in the Greater Manchester area on the Environment Agency website.One flood alert, meaning flooding is possible, remains in place for the River Bollin catchment area, including Knutsford, Wilmslow, Macclesfield and Bollington.We’ve just published this round-up of a wild, and weird, night in Castlefield...Pat Ansari, who lives on the road in Sale, said: “It came up to the plant pot on my drive.“The firemen knocked at the door and said there would be sandbags provided.
The front block is not affected by fire damage.The fire started on the rear block on level 4 and spread to the 6th floor. Unfortunately for me, the flow was coming from the bridge and the debris was coming towards my boat. A staff member says water got ‘everywhere’ in the gym. They still have teams out in vans who are driving around the areas affected by the floods and taking any necessary precautions.These pictures of the River Mersey were taken this morning by Ben Nixon.They’re taken from Darley Avenue in Didsbury. They’ve worked their socks off.”Our reporter Rebecca Day has left the city centre and is now in Sale, where homes were flooded overnigh...These two pictures of the River Mersey were taken by Greg Mape at 6.30am this morning.He said: “The normal weir in the river has disappeared under so much water.”Reece Samuels, 28, fitness manager at Y Club, said some people saw fish swimming in the water at the gym.Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue have just issued this statement:GREATER Manchester Fire and Rescue Service have been inundated with reports of flooding in the last 24 hours as a deluge of rain battered the North West.North West Fire Control received 116 emergency calls in the 24 hour period between 8.00am on Sunday, July 28 and 8.00am on Monday, July 29.With the Met Office issuing in excess of 20 flood warnings for Greater Manchester, crew in all corners of the county were called upon to assist the public with the boroughs of Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside hit the hardest.A large number of calls came from concerned residents whose cellars and basements were flooded while there were a number of people whose vehicles had become stranded in flood water.Flooding affecting between 10 and 15 houses caused by an overflowing brook.
Here's just a small selection of some of the videos we have been in. Manchester 24/7 is part of the 24/7 Network of Local News and Community Directory Web Sites, published by JJC Media. The canal was like a raging torrent. The company who manages the property and is on-site is in the process of advising the owners of each of the flats within the building regarding the fire.
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