uk braced for floods, blizzards and black ice as gas runs low and storm emma leaves thousands trapped on freezing roads - ess energy storage system

The military has been called up to rescue hundreds of drivers trapped in the snow.
Roads are covered when the British are warned that storm Emma will cause more damage.
It is predicted that floods, black ice and snowstorms will hit the UK today, and there are fears that gas may run out as winter storms hit the UK.
Now 10 people have been killed, including 10. year-
Yesterday became the coldest parade day ever. 5. 9C.
Hampshire police announced a major incident on Thursday in an attempt to release hundreds of drivers trapped on the a31.
The troops had to ask for military support, the two-way route between the M27 and A338 in Lynwood was closed for several hours and then reopened before 5. 30am.
Before six o'clock A. M. , police said some vehicles were driving again but were still cleaning up the trapped vehicles and recycling the abandoned vehicles.
What we know so far is that the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust was forced to call on 4x4 owners to help their employees move around in adverse conditions.
Meanwhile, Devon and Cornwall Police launched a major rescue mission after 300 drivers were trapped in cold temperatures.
After RAC took part in 8,000 failures before five o'clock P. M. yesterday, the driver is now urged to stay away from the road.
The train was also delayed due to bad weather, and the south of the Ariva train service in Wales was canceled.
The website of the National Railway also shows that most of the other train services in the country are affected by the weather.
The Birmingham City Council has announced that it will close all schools maintained by Parliament in response to the weather and its impact on traffic.
Cardiff Council also advised all schools in the city to remain closed for the second consecutive day.
Avon and Somerset Police say they are dealing with up to 100 cars stranded in the snow on the Ilminster A303, as well as another 20 stranded on Thornfalcon's
The police announced it was a "big event" and urged people to travel today.
The situation is expected to get worse as UNEP issues six flood warnings-meaning people should take immediate action to protect themselves.
The agency warned that floods could occur at the Humber estuary, Whitley Bay, Tyne estuary and Cornwall.
Another 19 flood alarms were also activated, down a level.
Chaos is like-year-
The old female student became the youngest of the ten victims killed by the "Oriental beast", which yesterday paralyzed parts of Britain.
The child was considered a pedestrian, and at about 2 years old a car crashed into a house on Bodrigan Road and he was fatally injured.
Police in Devon and Cornwall said. A 75-year-
An old woman was found dead in the snow earlier.
A covered street in Leeds, Hampshire police saidyear-
An old man died after colliding with a truck and truck on a South trip to A34 near Tot Hill services. A 60-year-
The old man who died after being pulled out of the water at Danson Park near Weiling in the South
On Wednesday, east London was named Stephen Kavanagh by the Metropolitan Police.
Forecasters issued a red alert warning Storm Emma 70 miles an hour of wind chilling from the east to attack the existing beast, endangering life
Bring deadly snow piles and15C windchill.
Forecasters warn that some parts of Dartmoor, Exmoor and southeast Wales may still have 50 cm of snow today, and the weather service said: "Winter is still firmly under control throughout the UK
"Britain's gas was about to run out yesterday --
There was a perfect storm of freezing weather and supply problems.
The National Grid, a British gas network operator, revealed that it is battling devastating shortages as homes and businesses continue to raise heating levels.
After the State Grid provided the factory with cash to reduce energy consumption, the factory cut production.
The government urged families: "continue to use the heating and cook as usual.
"Demand earlier this year was third higher than normal.
The cold wave refers to the cold wave across Europe.
But if Centrica, the UK gas owner, is not allowed to close the UK's largest gas storage plant by Christmas, the crisis of yesterday could have been avoided.
The rough factory in East Yorkshire accounts for 70 of our store and at any time it can accommodate enough gas to power 2.
There are 5 million houses a year.
There was a short time yesterday.
Long term supply issues for North Sea and Norwegian gas fields.
A dock in Barrow, Cumbria collapsed and a pipe from the Netherlands had problems. Tom Marzec-
Manser of analyst ICIS said: "When demand is much higher than this time of year, all these little things will increase.
"Yesterday, the wholesale price of natural gas was five times higher than the normal price.
But this will not affect the price paid by households because energy companies buy in advance.
Energy minister Claire Perry said: "The State Grid is following a standard procedure and people's domestic supply will not be affected.
"In this extreme weather, we keep in touch and monitor the supply of natural gas.
"Earlier today, a leukemia patient was trapped in a car for three hours on his way to Royal Oldham Hospital, ten minutes away from home for chemotherapy.
Soraya, the daughter of Gracie Mafi, asked for help on social media today as she explained that his heating was broken.
He spent three hours in the car.
Temperature of 5C until traffic starts moving again.
Cornwall and Devon police announced a major incident in the counties as the cold weather intensified.
As NHS bosses warned hospitals that they were working hard to cope with the "perfect storm" of frozen temperatures, Nores and flu, the armed forces were pulled in to help medical staff work in Lincoln County.
In cold weather conditions, the surge in enrollment has put pressure on the accident and emergency departments, as the ongoing cold today is intertwined with the collision of two dangerous weather systems.
Recently killed in a sudden drop in temperature was a little girl who died in a car accident.
Nine more were killed in dangerous conditions.
Today, forecasters issued a red alert for life hazards in parts of England and Wales, and the State Grid today issued a "gas deficit alert "--
This means there may not be enough gas supply to meet demand.
The chill lasted 15 degrees.
Yesterday morning, the weather bureau issued a red alert for Blizzard.
For the first time since 2011, England has issued such a severe snowfall alert.
Effective until two o'clock A. M. tomorrow.
Technically, the first day of the spring winter shower is expected to bring 2ft of snow, as the northern beast from the East collides with Storm Emma, attacking the trembling Brits.
By Thursday afternoon and evening, snow will get heavier and heavier
Paul Gundersen, chief meteorologist at the Meteorological Bureau, said 20 cm of people may settle widely in the red alert area.
Freezing rain could hit parts of the South, he added
On Thursday night, in the West of England and Wales, there could be a huge danger of freezing an extension because the rain beads would be super cold and freeze immediately when they hit the ground.
People who wish to stay away from the cold weather may be disappointed as flights at British airports have been delayed and canceled --
Ryanair canceled all flights to and from East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
In some of yesterday's events, a woman was pulled out of the sea in Hunstanton, and a young boy was rescued by firefighters in Essex when he ran to an icyA multi-
This morning, the car piled up on the M66 saw 16 cars, with 20 sep cars in an hour at-19.
The AA estimates that more than 8,000 collisions have occurred on British roads in the past three days.
Due to heavy snow, 1,000 drivers were trapped overnight as temperatures plummeted, 4,000 schools were closed, planes were grounded, and many people's travel pains continued --
The bad weather will last until next week.
Last night, the driver who was frantically trying to get home from work was either forced to sleep in the car or completely abandoned.
In the midst of traffic chaos, a traffic police vehicle caught fire on M62 this morning.
A spokesman for the British highway said: "In this work, the traffic officer's vehicle was on fire.
While no one was hurt, the fire did delay the work of getting the vehicle to travel again.
Firefighters from West Yorkshire attended the scene and dealt with the fire.
"Operations and GP appointments across England have been canceled due to the cold weather --
With the chill of the wind11C -continues.
Snow forced hospitals in Lincoln County, Kent and Norfolk to postpone
Emergency action due to shortage of personnel and lack of beds.
The temperature dropped to minus 10 degrees.
The 3C of Kinloss, Scotland is expected to spend the night tomorrow morning over Dartmoor, Devon, with up to 50 cm of snow.
Snowden's peak record-
13 C with "feeling" factor-
Because 30 C was frozen by the state.
Extreme weather forced the Scottish Conservative party to cancel its annual meeting scheduled for the weekend in Aberdeen.
"The security of the representative is the first.
"This afternoon, there was heavy snow and wind on the roof of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Safety experts evaluate the building on site to ensure the safety of the building after the panel of the Royal Princess Maternity Hospital in the hospital's maternity building is loose.
No one was injured in the incident, and a hospital spokesman said there was no interruption in patient care.
Member Alan Casey said: "When I hear reports of serious damage to some of the roofs, please be careful around the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
"Be careful near Alexandra Parade and Wishart Street.
"X Factor travel stars were also frightened when they traveled to Glasgow today as the whistling winds blew part of the roof of their tour bus to the highway.
Groups including winners Rak
At the time of the incident, Sue, Grace Davis, Kevin David White, carkervin, Lloyd Messi, Sean and Connor Price were traveling from Scotland to Leeds.
Commuters suffer again in bad weather
As Paddington station in London is closed from 8: 00
At ten o'clock A. M. , A1 was closed due to snow closure.
Major airports, including London Gatwick and Heathrow, told passengers that the cancellation of the flight was about to happen, while Glasgow Airport announced its closure until three o'clock P. M. While in snow-
The A52 attacked Lincoln County, which was impassable between Boston and skeinis, and police warned police that they could not rescue the trapped driver.
Even snow plows are not able to pass through the rescue driver, and drifting snow causes snow to pile up to 1 feet deep.
The M62 was hit and the driver trying to get through the bad weather was delayed by two hours.
In Norwich, TV show host Jack Humphrey offered 4x4 help to any vulnerable group in need of help shopping as the country struggled in the snow.
When a family living in steinmore, Cumbria, found their front door completely blocked by snow, they were shocked.
Forecasters warn that today's weather will get worse, with an astonishing 20 inch of snow dumped in parts of the country, covered with deadly black ice on roads and submarines
Zero temperatures freeze the whole country.
Greg Dewhurst said: "The worst-hit areas throughout the night were red alert areas in Scotland and southern Lothian.
"We will have a very busy day on Thursday.
What we see is heavy snow sweeping south and south Wales.
There will be strong winds throughout the West of England-
Worst of all, the blizzard situation has also happened.
"It's windy everywhere, it's cold --
For most parts of the country, the temperature will remain below freezing.
He added: "There has been no such widespread cold in the UK since around March 2013.
Weather Bureau forecasters Simon Partridge said: "stay at home if you don't have to go anywhere for the next few days.
Red weather warning-
Highest level-
England will still be in effect by two o'clock A. M. tomorrow.
North Korea also issued an amber warning --
The eastern and central parts of England and the top of these areas have issued yellow snow warnings to large areas of southern, central and northern England, Northern Ireland and Wales --
Most of the time today is where it is.
The Virgin train east coast warned that anyone traveling north of Newcastle should delay their journey and that there will be some changes to its service.
The TfL railway has also canceled or modified some of its services, while enorenstein said that bad weather has blocked several lines and there have been delays and cancellations throughout the network.
Trains in East Midlands have also changed and canceled several times.
Southern warned on Twitter this morning that there were delays between Balcombe and Brighton and Gatwick due to 8 feet ice pillars in the tunnel.
Scottish police urged people not to hit the road after they had to rescue 1,000 drivers yesterday, as AA reported that more than 100 drivers had to go out today.
Lincoln County police warned people that "most of the roads" in the county were impassable and urged people not to travel "unless absolutely necessary. Dad-of-
Two Steve Buise told STV that he was one of the people who had been stuck on the highway last night, but decided to give up his car.
He said: "We got on the highway at about two o'clock P. M. and 5.
At 30, I decided to leave the car due to lack of diesel and cell phone batteries.
"I have two young children in my car, so I want to take the opportunity when there is plenty of light outside.
"The road is also affected by snow, and due to" heavy snowfall ", the A66 in Cumbria is closed in both directions between the Scottish corner and the brogh.
Due to the truck collision between the M65 and the a680, the A56 in Lancashire may be closed for "a few hours ".
Lincoln County is seriously affected.
A17 and A15 close between M180 and Lincoln.
Lincoln County police said yesterday that the army was in great need for the next 24 hours.
It is hoped that vehicles from the Army and the Royal Air Force will be used to deal with vulnerable people trapped in the snow.
Northumbria Police say the A68 between Cole Bridge and Richdale has been closed.
In Derbyshire, between dingzwester and Flory, the wooden head pass is closed in two directions.
Public Health in the UK (PHE)
Urge people to plan ahead and make sure they have enough food and medicine.
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