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Families fear the London floods are “a taste for things to come” after torrential rain and thunderstorms caused chaos in the capital. The flooding saw a car trapped, buses flooded and businesses being forced to close, as Battersea’s Queenstown Road “was a canal”. Now, residents are calling on better drainage and pumps to be ready to remove water from flooded sites. Maria Tironi, 28, of Queenstown Road, said: “It was raining and then the police came and closed the road from the traffic lights all the way down. And then there was flooding in the street and a car was trapped.”
Monday, 26 Jul 2021 07:02 AM MYT
Cars are driven through deep water on a flooded road in The Nine Elms district of London on July 25, 2021 during heavy rain. AFP pic
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LONDON, July 26 Buses and cars were left stranded when roads across London flooded on Sunday, as repeated thunderstorms battered the British capital.
Emergency services were battling “significant flooding across London”, Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted, adding that all public transport services were affected and advising people to avoid walking or driving through flooded areas.
Social media users posted videos of partially submerged vehicles in southwest London, with more heavy rain set to fall as a band of thunderstorms made its way across southeast England.