Last Updated Monday, February 17, 2020 6:51AM ESTCOPENHAGEN -- Britain issued five "severe" flood alerts on Monday, warning there's a danger to life after Storm Dennis dumped weeks worth of rain in some places. It gale-force winds also caused flooding and power outages across other parts of northern Europe.
The weather system brought winds of more than 145 kph and up to 150 millimeters of rain over the weekend. Other residents in parts of Wales and western England were cleaning up Monday after the storm flooded roads, railways, homes and businesses and disrupted travel across Britain. "We'll never be able to protect every single household just because of the nature of climate change and the fact that these weather events are becoming more extreme, but we've done everything that we can do with a significant sum of money, and there's more to come," Minister George Eustice said.
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