Much of northern Europe is bracing for stormy weather and gale-force winds from the east on Thursday, with authorities saying floods could cause major problems in inland Danish waters, in the Baltic Sea and in northern parts of the U.K. A Danish broadc...
A workman clears a drainage ditch in the village of Edzell, Scotland, ahead of Storm Babet, Thursday Oct. 19, 2023. The UK is bracing for heavy wind and rain from Storm Babet, the second named storm of the season. A rare red weather warning stating there is a"risk to life" has been issued for parts of Scotland as the storm is expected to batter the UK on Thursday.
In Denmark, residents scrambled to place sandbags along exposed areas. In Assens on the central island of Funen, the Danish Emergency Management Agency was deploying huge rubber tubes in the harbor to counter rising water levels, TV2 said. Southern Denmark police urged people along the east coast to leave exposed areas if the weather predictions remain, saying cottages, harbors and other places could be flooded.
Several ferry lines between Danish islands were suspended, as were ferries to Rostock in northern Germany and to Oslo.
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