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Two people died.Roads and highways are closed. Homes are without power. And travelers are trapped in Great Britain because of record rainfall. The rain set records and affected the northern part of England and Scotland. The national weather service issued a "red" alert for rain in the area. In some areas, water reached above the doors of parked cars. Rescue workers remove local residents by boat from a flooded residential street in Carlisle, Britain December 6. The Reuters news agency says two people died because of the flooding. The head of Britain's Environment Agency called the weather "unprecedented." Most of the region received between 200 to 300 millimeters of rain over the weekend, according to the U.K.'s National Weather Service. The weather office says severe weather may continue into the week. Extreme rainy weather is not only affecting the northern hemisphere.The city of Chennai in southern India also received over 300 millimeters of rain in 24 hours last week.The rain emergencies came at the same time world leaders are meeting in France to discuss climate change at the COP21 convention. One climate change expert from the United Kingdom's office of the World Wildlife Fund said "storm Desmond is the sort of storm that we will see more of if we fail to tackle climate change."