Flooded Britons’ Respite From Rains to End as Storm Looms
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A storm bringing 80 mile-per-hour winds and rain threatens to deluge flood-stricken Britons after a respite today from more than two months of downpours.
Hundreds of homes in commuter-belt towns along the River Thames to the west of London remain underwater, with the Environment Agency saying water levels may begin to rise again with fresh rains tomorrow. Swathes of the Somerset countryside in southwest England have been submerged since before Christmas.