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Gallery: Our images show submerged streets as flooding hits Strathspey

Parts of the Cairngorms National Park have been left unrecognisable, disguised beneath feet of murky flood water.

Police Scotland advised to only travel if your journey us essential. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
Police Scotland advised to only travel if your journey us essential. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.

Highland communities have been left waterlogged following a weekend of torrential rain.

Heavy showers hammered the north as an amber weather warning came into force.

On Sunday the River Spey burst its banks, sending a stream of muddy floodwater gushing through surrounding fields and villages.

A day on, parts of the Cairngorms National Park have been left unrecognisable; disguised beneath feet of murky water.

Pictures taken in the Badenoch and Strathspey area show the scale of the devastation.

Business owners wade through river water to save premises

Several roads have been left impassable due to water on the carriageway as business owners battle to save their premises.

In Aviemore, a mass clean-up operation is under way.

Caravans at Aviemore Holiday Park have been left marooned by the River Spey as water levels continue to rise.

Meanwhile, local business owners have also been seen pumping water away from their premises.

Our photographer Sandy McCook has been out capturing the worst of the flooding in the area.

Flood water surrounds a white home in Aviemore as the trees bloom with autumn colours.
Flood water surrounds a house on Dalfaber Road in Aviemore. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
Flood water rises up a signpost as the River Spey burst its banks.
Roads in and around Aviemore have become impassable due to large volumes of water on the roads. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
A vehicles drives along a road as fields on both sides are covered in flood water.
Fields surrounding Nethy Bridge have been left submerged below feet of flood water. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
Flood water swamps fields surrounding Nethy Bridge.
Flood water swamps fields surrounding Nethy Bridge. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
An outdoor business has been left waterlogged by the flash flooods.
An Aviemore business has been left flooded following a weekend of torrential rain. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
A vehicle wades through water up to its bonnet.
A vehicle struggling through flood water, level with its bonnet, in Aviemore. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
Flooding transforms fields around Aviemore into a never ending sea.
Pictures taken in the Badenoch and Strathspey area show the scale of the devastation following a weekend of heavy rainfall. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
Roads in and around Aviemore have been left swamped under floodwater. Image: Sandy McCook/DC Thomson
Water levels have reached as high as the trees in Aviemore following torrential rain.
Water levels in Aviemore have risen, leaving neighbourhood streets swamped.  Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.
Flood water swamps fields surrounding Nethy Bridge.
Flood water swamps fields surrounding Nethy Bridge. Image: Sandy McCook/ DC Thomson.

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