14/02/2014 BBC London News

Devon, the storm brought 40 millimetres of

We are being sacrificed for the other people on the other side of

the road. If they say it is getting as bad as they say it, the house

will fall to breezes. It could be spared thanks to this inflatable. We

are not making the situation worse for other people. If the insurers

try to claim it is the case they will have to come back to us and we

will tell them we are protecting properties are not making the

situation worse. Across the bridge there is little in the way of

defence. This water is still the bandit is fast flowing as well. It

is hard to move around. But it is flowing away from the properties

back out into the river. Simon battles on. He moved his family out

a week ago. For pumps running 2 47 are now his only hope. Over the

bridge in the main part of Jesse, there is the Aqua down they are

putting up. There has been a lot of activity from the military and

Environment Agency. Not much here though? Right now, I don't know what

kind of help they could give me Sandbags are the new currency. These

men are apparently making off with a newly built wall. As volunteers hang

them out in Runnymede, others try to sell them. Sandbags they have sold

from `` stole from us, we know they are stolen because look at the bags

we are filling. Preparations across Surrey continue for more rain. There

is already water as far as you can see and no end in sight.

And it's also been a difficult week for many commuters, especially those

using Paddington Station where there've been large numbers of

delays and cancellations. And there could be more bad news as engineers

consider closing the mainline at Maidenhead so flood`damaged

signalling can be replaced. Here's our Transport Correspondent, Tom

Edwards. Every morning 35,000 commuters use

Paddington station. This week it has been a struggle with only one in

five trains are running. It has been bad, I am having to go the long

route by Waterloo. London to Redding is normally about 50 minutes. The

trains are not moving. The trains have stopped. They are just standing

at the station. The disruption on the great Western line is caused by

signalling failures at Maidenhead. Signal boxes are submerged. The

water table is 20 metres higher than normal and won't drop, save the

Environment Agency, for weeks. The speed limit through the area is just

five miles an hour. And sources have told the BBC engineers are now

considering a block closure of a week or more of the great Western.

That would cause huge disruption. Then engineers could either raise

the track or refit the signalling. Passenger groups are pragmatic. If

we are told two weeks grief will lead to ten years resilience,

without the delays we have had up until now, they will probably live

with that. Not happily, but resolutely. It is a huge commuter

belt. The number of people travelling into Paddington on a

normal day is crowded. With the problem is further in the

south`west, that would put more pressure on the rail `` road

network. Network Rail says it has no plans to close the line and options

to increase capacity at Maidenhead will be announced. The train

companies are not ruling out anything. If there is no evidence

that water will not dissipate, we will have to look at how we move

some of the signalling equipment to work around it. But nobody should be

under any doubt, it is a big job and a challenge. All options are under

review. Commuters using the great Western face disruption. This will

raise questions about infrastructure resilience.

A teenage Muslim convert from Walthamstow who walked around Tower

Hamlets as part of a vigilant patrol aimed at imposing Sharia Law in east

London has been giving a ground`breaking ASBO at the Old

Bailey. It bans Jordan Horner, now 20, from preaching in public and

promoting Sharia Law in any way which causes harassment, alarm or

distress. The order lasts five years and has been welcomed by Scotland

Yard for sending a clear message against extremism on London's

streets. Police plan to speak to the person

who set an online drinking challenge to a man who subsequently died.

Isaac Richardson took part and collapsed in Woolwich, becoming the

first British person to die playing the game. The craze called

NekNominate involves quickly drinking alcohol before nominating

others to play the game. Now I hand you over to the weather.

We have already seen some travel disruption. Two Met Office warnings

that night. Heavy rain because there is still more to come and over the

weekend river levels will rise. But of most concern will be the strength

of the winds tonight. Some gusts of up to 60 to 70 miles an hour across

town. We are already gusting at about 50 miles an hour in many of

our weather stations. Blustery through the night and the winds

peaking at the early hours of tomorrow morning. Starting off the

day tomorrow around six or seven degrees. A blustery start, lots of

showers through the morning. They will continue into the morning but

the winds will ease down. Top temperatures of around nine or 0

Celsius. Sunday is looking quite dry and bright after a chilly night I

will leave and bright after a chilly night I

will leave you with the weekend summary for London. Let's go to the

weather centre to get the national forecast.

Our love hate relationship with the weather has become unbalanced this

winter, I suspect there is not a lot of love left. Today's storm has not

helped. It gave us 20 to 30 millimetres of rain. Snow in the

past few hours at lower levels in eastern Scotland. That should turn

to rain again but the blizzards in the Scottish mountains will

continue. This evening, it has been the wind which has been most

disruptive in southern England. Met Office amber warning remains in

force with gusts up to 80 miles an hour along the south coast producing

big waves crashing into the shoreline. Dangerous conditions and

more coastal flooding. Inland, winds 50 to 60 miles an hour up the

Bristol Channel and other southern counties. Trees have come down and

plenty of disruption. This weather continues for a few more hours.

There are weather warnings. The number