Northern Europe Battered by Storm Ciara.
CHURCH: Well, a powerful storm is battering northern Europe. These people stood their ground on the beach in the Netherlands as high winds blasted sand and water all around them. And in England, flooding remains a threat as the storm moves on. ITN's Neil Connery has more.</s>NEIL CONNERY, ITV NEWS CORRESPONDENT, ITN: storm Ciara's arrival lived up to the forecasters' warnings. In Yorkshire the rising water left residents in a desperate race to protect their home.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So worried what we're doing, trying to protect as best we can. As you can, you can see, it's fairly horrendous.</s>CONNERY: Sirens sounded to alert those living near the river banks of the impending floods.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It actually came over the wall. Hate to think what the situation is going to be like -- yes, quite -- I'm stress.</s>CONNERY: In between the bands of severe weather, the vast volume of water spilled out wherever it could. Fire and rescue crews did what they could in the face of the powerful storm.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can sum it in one word, grim. And that's through the hall of the valley.</s>CONNERY: Ciara's impact on transport was felt far and wide. At Heathrow, pilots contended with extreme winds. Not every attempt to land first time proved successful.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Missed approach. Didn't land there. He didn't land there.</s>CONNERY: On the railway, some lines were blocked by debris like this trampoline, with speed restrictions in place, it was a challenging day for travelers.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's why we are limited to 52 miles an hour today because of the storm.</s>CONNERY: In Hastings, this life boat crew battled severe gales as they went to rescue a surfer. Thankfully despite the conditions, the crew and the surfer all returned safely. In Hoyt (Ph) on the Scottish borders, this swollen river spelled disaster for this cafe. In North Wales, flooding brought misery for motorists and residents. Business owners said they'd never seen anything like it.</s>CRAIG DANIELS, BUSINESS OWNER: Within an hour, it was four and a half foot deep, literally couldn't get to the back room because the kitchen had come off the wall. The fridge freezer had fallen down over the door.</s>CONNERY: The forecasters had predicted that storm Ciara would pack a punch, and for much of the country that's been borne out. Here in West Yorkshire, the cost and the impact of the floods has been devastating.</s>RACHEL HAYES, RESIDENT, WEST YORKSHIRE: We're safe so far. And all ornaments plants, pets are all upstairs.</s>CONNERY: Tonight, Rachel Hayes is one of those here counting the cost after her home was flooded.</s>HAYES: This is terrible. This is going to take months to sort out and this is going to affect a lot of people on this road.</s>CONNERY: In the deserted streets nearby, storm Ciara's worst may have moved on, but her impact is just sinking in.</s>CHURCH: Karen Maginnis is in the CNN weather center with more looking at the and of course the forecast. So how much longer do people have to put up with these conditions?</s>KAREN MAGINNIS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is not over yet. But what we have already seen has been staggering. Hardly anyplace was left unscathed. We saw widespread wind damage and those bands of rainfall were extraordinarily heavy. What caused all of this? We saw this on our computer models days in advance. We knew that the weekend was going to be just horrendous. As a huge wind event, as a huge rain event. And that really bore out. Just to give you some idea, area of low pressure up here, this also a secondary area of low pressure that's traversing across Scandinavia. And then we've got that very powerful jet stream that is just aiming everything right across the British Isles and into the mainland of Europe. And this is going to continue to progress toward the east. Now, probably the worst of the winds have ended across the United Kingdom and Ireland, but they're not over. We may not see those 200 kilometer-per-hour winds. Maybe we'll see 100 to 150. So there still is the potential there. We'll see bands of heavy rainfall. The rivers are already out of their banks in a number of areas as we saw from the packet. Also, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague, you're all expecting some very gusty winds over the next several days. Now, for the highlands of Scotland, this is where we're looking at snowfall. So the impact is still not over. Lots of cold air diving to the south and we could see near blizzard conditions. Already, we have hundreds and hundreds of flood warnings, also flood alerts out. Where there are warnings, that means you need to be alert immediately. The watch with the advisories that suggest that perhaps you should be paying attention to kind of the deteriorating weather conditions. All right. I mentioned it looks like across the mainland we'll pick up heavy wind and rainfall expected here across the low lands region, northern sections of France extending over across in northern Adriatic. Those higher peaks, you're looking at snowfall. It could be significant. Some of the rainfall totals we've seen across the British Isles have been around 100 millimeters. And, Rosemary, in recent times it was 2013 when we last saw a system like this. But we go back to 1993, equally as damaging and destructive a system there. Back to you.</s>CHURCH: Just incredible. The images we've been looking at extraordinary. Karen Maginnis, many thanks to you. I appreciate it. And if you're watching internationally, thank you so much for being with us. Iconic Budapest is next. 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