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all tour. Let's hope this guy has a lot

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Good evening. I'm Jo Kent. Thousands of households across the South face

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a Christmas without power after high winds and torrential rain battered

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our region last night. Overall, almost 83,000 households still

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haven't been reconnected. The worst affected areas are both in

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Hampshire. Around Petersfield, more than 25,000 homes are without power,

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while in Aldershot, just under 20,000 families are likely to be in

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the dark tonight. Also, within the last couple of hours, police in

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Oxfordshire have recovered a man's body from the swollen River Thame,

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near Wheatley. His death is being treated as unexplained. It has been

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a day of disruption and chaos. Not the type of Christmas tree you

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want to see in your living room. For this family in Poole, last night's

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storm was a lucky escape. We were just wrapping presents when the

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first bit came down in the lounge. We heard a loud crash and quickly

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ran out. We have had trees going down everywhere. We have had two

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teens out all night. This is just one of many we have had. The winds

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ripped across the South. This tree in Worthing rudely interrupted

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Christmas preparations. With the wind came torrential rain. Many main

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roads, including the A35 through Dorset, were affected. 25 people in

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the county had to be rescued from their cars by the fire service.

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These pensioners in Ferndown had to be helped from their mobile homes by

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boat. At Emsworth in West Sussex, this group of houses was flooded out

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for the sixth time in three years. Christmas will be spent bailing out.

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It is just eight inches higher, and it has gone throughout the whole

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house. Less than a week ago, we just had new carpets and flooring done

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throughout the whole house, because I have got a baby due in nine weeks.

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And flash flooding. The River why are on the Isle of Wight burst its

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banks, as did the River Rother, near Stedham in West Sussex. Properties

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in nearby Fittleworth and Duncton were flooded, and some motorists

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ignored the advice of emergency services and braved the floodwater,

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with potentially dangerous consequences. Trees down meant power

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lines down, like this one near Winchester. The resulting power cuts

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left thousands in the dark, with Christmas food spoiling. We have had

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no power for about 17 hours now. There is a problem with the

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substation, apparently. We have got the turkey in the fridge, it is

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obviously not being refrigerated, so I don't know. Although we are trying

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our best this evening and late into the night to get them back on, if

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people can make alternative arrangements, we recommend that they

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do that. The companies now say that if homes are not reconnected before

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midnight, they are unlikely to have electricity on Christmas Day. Trees

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down on railway tracks like this one at Sholing meant no South West

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Trains ran before ten o'clock this morning, and First Great Western

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trains through Reading suffered disruption, too. Hundreds were left

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stranded at Gatwick, and although passengers arriving in Southampton

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weren't delayed in the air, they did face long queues leaving the car

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park because of a downed tree. As the Christmas clear`up continues,

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there are warnings of more bad weather to come on Friday.

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Let's get the all`important weather now. More bad weather later in the

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week? Yes, another storm on the way for Friday. Before then, we will

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have heavy showers this evening and through Christmas day. The showers

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could be squarely in nature, although the winds will is slightly

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this evening `` the winds will is slightly. A bit of hail, even some

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sleep over higher ground. For Christmas Day, those heavy and

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squally showers will continue, with hail and thunder mixed in. During

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the day, there will be some sunshine. It is a easy day. Boxing

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Day is looking slightly better. As we look ahead to Friday, here is

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the weather system coming in from the Atlantic, courtesy of this area

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of low pressure. Winds gusting up to 70 mph. Inland gusts, 50 mph. And

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some quite heavy rainfall. That there will be showers for Christmas

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day. Boxing Day is slightly quieter, with light winds. Looking ahead to

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Friday, we have a Met Office yellow weather warning in force for heavy

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rain and strong wind is. That's all from us for now. We are

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back with our next bulletin at 1pm on Boxing Day. From all of us on the

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it from us - we are back on Boxing Day at One o'clock. Merry Christmas.

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Hello. The weather has been a little kinder today to travellers and

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last-minute Christmas shoppers across England and Wales. Not as bad

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as we feared across Northern

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