Dozens of flood warnings in place across Britain after Storm Ciaran wreaked havoc with heavy rain and gales – as heartbroken resident reveals how his home was deluged 

• Environment Agency has issued 36 flood warnings and 146 flood alerts

A Bognor Regis resident whose house was flooded when torrential rain and powerful winds battered the UK during Storm Ciaran heartbreakingly says ‘it’s game over for us’ as he told how he will be forced to move home.

The West Sussex town was battered during the storm on Thursday which prompted an amber ‘danger to life’ warning from the Met Office as hurricane winds of 104mph swept across the southern coast and the Channel Islands, cutting off power supplies in nearly 150,000 properties and leaving vast areas deluged. 

Today, although Storm Ciaran has largely eased as it moved into the North Sea, 36 flood warnings and 146 flood alerts remain in place with heavy rain predicted in the west of the UK this afternoon.

The streets in seaside Sussex resort Bognor Regis were flooded during this week’s storm as the black water breached the sandbag defences outside people’s homes, leaving them waterlogged. 

Andrew Penegar, wading through the ankle-deep dirty floodwater in his home as debris floats around his legs, told how he will now have to move.

Andrew Penegar’s home in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, was flooded during Storm Ciaran. He says it is ‘game over for us’ there and said he will now how to move home

Mr Penegar wades through the ankle-deep dirty floodwater in his home as debris floats around his legs

The sodden carpet in one bedroom of his home with belongings piled on the bed in the hopes to keep them safe from being destroyed

Standing in the kitchen of his waterlogged home, Mr Penegar told the BBC: ‘Well it’s catastrophic really you know I think it is game over really for us here. 

‘Yeah we’re going to get relocated through the insurance company, but I mean what do you do? You tell me.’

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The majority of flood warnings in place today were along the south coast from Weymouth to Bexhill, where the Met Office warned that heavy rain was falling on saturated ground on Saturday. 

There were also flood warnings near Godalming in Surrey, for the River Ouse at York and the River Waveney from Diss to Bungay in East Anglia. 

Other warnings remained on the River Witham near Lincoln, the River Dene at Walton in the West Midlands and in the area of Marchington in east Staffordshire. 

Natural Resources Wales had one flood warning in place on Saturday evening, with flooding expected along the River Ritec at Tenby, Pembrokeshire. 

Alerts that flooding is possible have also been issued in South Pembrokeshire, in the lower Teifi catchment downstream of Llanybydder, around the River Wye and the Lower Severn in Powys, for the River Ewenny and Vale of Glamorgan west and for River Vyrnwy, River Tanat and River Cain and their tributaries. 

There are warnings of possible flooding across England with only the north west and far north east unaffected. There are no active flood warnings for Scotland. 

The Environment Agency has issued 36 flood warnings and 146 flood alerts today with heavy rain predicted in the west of the UK this afternoon

Trees are uprooted in St Helier after winds reaching 100mph tore through Jersey

Huge waves strike the Devon coast at Teignmouth as Storm Ciaran sweeps across Britain

People are rescued from Freshwater Beach Holiday Park in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, during Storm Ciaran

KENT: Huge waves crash over the harbour wall at Folkestone. A yellow weather warning was issued on Saturday for heavy rain from Dorset to Kent

Showers will predominantly be in the west today with dry and brighter conditions in the east, and no weather warnings are currently issued. 

Yesterday, a yellow weather warning for heavy rain stretching from Dorset to Kent was issued by the Met Office from 5am to 11.59pm.

The weather service said it expected 15-25mm of rain to ‘fall quite widely’, especially towards the south coast, adding that the wettest spots in East Sussex and southeast Kent could receive 30-45mm of rainfall.

Met Office meteorologist Dan Stroud said this level of rain on its own would not usually be particularly concerning, but that it came ‘against the backdrop of a very wet October and ongoing issues in parts of Sussex’.

He added: ‘It doesn’t actually take much more rain for there to be further impacts in relation to surface water issues on roads.’

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