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Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes
A tidal surge has hit coastal towns on the east of Britain after thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.
The North Sea surge, predicted to be the worst for 60 years, reached north Norfolk in the evening and made its way south through the night.
Flood waters have been reported to be receding but there will be further high tides later on Friday.
Scotland is facing snow alerts after a fierce storm earlier battered the UK, claiming two lives.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is chairing a meeting of the government's Cobra committee to discuss the floods, it has been announced.
The Environment Agency, which covers England and Wales, has dozens of severe flood warnings in place.
Many of the severe warnings - which mean "danger to life" - relate to areas in the east of England, where there are also about 200 lower-level warnings and alerts.
An agency spokesman had said that in the "worst-case scenario" 6,000 properties could be flooded, and many have been evacuated.
The agency said some flood defences had been breached and some repairs were under way.
A second tidal surge, which the agency said should be 1m (3ft) lower, has already passed Scotland and the far north of England and should reach Great Yarmouth at about 11:00 GMT and London at 15:00.
Rescue teams have been working through the night in many areas.
In other developments:
- 9,000 people have evacuated their homes in Norfolk, mainly in the Great Yarmouth area, where at least 26 properties have been flooded and a lifeboat station has been washed into the sea
- Soldiers have helped the flood prevention effort in Norfolk and Essex
- The Environment Agency said 400 homes in the Humber region were affected by flood water on Thursday night
Transport connections are expected to return to normal in much of Scotland in the wake of the storm.
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The BBC's Nick Beake spoke to people in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, who evacuated their homes overnight
Trains across Scotland were stopped on Thursday, but ScotRail said it expected to run services as scheduled from the start of Friday.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has now lifted most of its flood warnings but the Met Office has yellow weather warnings in place for snow in northern Scotland until 12:00 GMT.
There are also yellow warnings for ice in parts of Northern Ireland and north-west England, and wind on England's east coast. Yellow warnings mean "be aware".
High tides in parts of north Wales battered by storms hours earlier passed without further major flooding.
Lifeboat crews from south Wales were drafted in to help colleagues in the north amid fears coastal areas could be hit for a second time in 24 hours.
But emergency services have reported a mostly quiet Friday morning so far.
Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) said it had restored power to most customers after strong winds caused disruption to supplies.
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Weather presenter Matt Taylor explains how a storm surge happens
BBC weather presenter Matt Taylor explained that "storm surges" begin when a rising area of low pressure takes pressure off the surface of the sea, allowing it to "bulge" upwards.
"Then, as that pulls away, you get the very strong winds on the back edge of the low pressure and then that shoves that bulge of high sea levels down through the North Sea," he said.
Conditions across the UK are expected to have improved by the weekend.
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