An emergency rescue service worker peers through the window of a bungalow as he wades in flood water in a residential street in Rhyl, north Wales December 5, 2013. Hurricane-force winds disrupted transport and power supplies in Scotland and threatened costal flooding in England as they closed on northern Europe in what meteorologists said could be one of the most powerful storms to hit the continent in years. REUTERS/Phil Noble (BRITAIN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)