Formby drains are blocked and toilets back-filling

This is a photo of a 12ft x 4ft main drain room in Formby that is now completely blocked.

As a RED Weather warning is issued to Lancashire, it is very worrying that Formby is backing up on all the drains and it is still raining.

This is a photo of a 12ft main drain room in Formby that is now completely blocked. This drain feeds two streets of housing and all their drains are back - filling. Toilets will not flush. There is only about three feet left on this main drain before it completely over-flows.

Other drains have already overflowed causing floods in Formby.

Formby is on a Yellow alert by the Met Office with more severe rain throughout the day and the rain is set to continue for the next seven days.

One worried Formby resident said: "Things are not looking good , the drains are full , and are backed up to above the grid cover, another few inches and it will flow out. I have recorded it to help explain why our infrastructure cant support more houses and even as I have written this, it has risen a bit more!"

Roads flooding on Formby Industrial Estate - Photo by Mike Rigby

Grids bursting - Photo by Mike Rigby

Ditches in Formby over flowing - Photo by Mike Rigby

Davenham Road garden flooded - Photo by Sheila Clements Macdonald

Met Office: 26 December 2015 - A Red 'take action' warning for rainfall has been issued for parts of Lancashire today.

A band of rain will become slow-moving for a time today across Lancashire. 50 to 80 mm is expected to fall in a 6 to 9 hour period through to early afternoon, with over 100 mm likely over high ground over a longer period of time.

It is the intensity of this rainfall, on already saturated ground that has sparked the issuing of the Met Office's most severe warning. This is expected to lead to widespread river flooding and surface water flooding.

Amber and Yellow warnings are also in place for other parts of Lancashire, Cumbria, northwest Wales and parts of Scotland. The Amber 'be prepared' warning covers those areas more sensitive to the expected rainfall, and covers parts of northwest England, including Cumbria, Lancashire, western parts of both North and West Yorkshire, as well as parts of Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

The yellow 'be aware' warning area is larger and spreads down into North Wales and north, just into southern Scotland. A further 50 to 80 mm of rain is likely quite widely across the yellow and amber warning areas. Please be aware of the potential for flooding and some disruption to transport.