Lincolnshire flooding: hundreds of homes evacuated
by James Tapper and Amy Walker from Environment | The Guardian on (#4H8BZ)
Military helicopters are drafted in to repair broken bank of River Steeping in Wainfleet
Hundreds of homes have been evacuated in a Lincolnshire town following severe flooding as the local MP warned that residents are "by no means out of the woods yet".
Residents in at least 590 homes in Wainfleet and Thorpe Culvert were told to leave as waters continued to surge on Saturday.
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