The awful weather has ruined Christmas for many people in southern England, the part of Britain the worst affected by the Christmas floods. <br /><br />Four important rivers, the Stour, Medway, Wey, and Mole are overflowing or close to breaking their banks.<br /><br />“In an hour everything was just wiped out. You could just see the current just taking everything down,” said one unhappy homeowner.<br /><br />Hundreds of homes have been evacuated. Cars have been left stranded by the sides of roads.<br /><br />“The fire brigade were here. There was such a commotion, lots of people, somebody shouting ‘help, help, help’ because there’s no lights in this part of the road. <br /><br />There was another car as well, some people going to the airport, and they had children in the car and what happened eventually they had to go and get a boat. But there’s such a current that the boat wouldn’t go where they wanted it to go so it took quite a little while to get the people out of the van,” said another flooded-out victim.<br /><br />While the weather is expected to calm by tomorrow, a fresh belt of rain and high winds is expected to hit the UK on Friday. The authorities are urging people to only travel if absolutely necessary.
