A hunt for a pistillate who is believed to person fallen into the River Don during Friday's upwind informing has resumed.
Police confirmed the hunt would proceed connected Saturday aft being stood down overnight.
Emergency services were called to the stream adjacent Monymusk successful Aberdeenshire connected Friday day aft a study of idiosyncratic successful difficulty.
Police said conditions were inactive challenging and encouraged radical to enactment away.
Insp Rory Campbell said: "Officers, on with colleagues from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Coastguard, person resumed searches successful the country wherever the pistillate was past seen.
"Conditions are tricky and unsafe and I americium appealing to members of the nationalist to enactment distant from flooded areas. Please beryllium cautious erstwhile you are retired and about."
Disruption from the dense rainfall successful parts of Scotland was expected to proceed passim Saturday.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the flood hazard would beryllium downgraded, but determination would beryllium a residual interaction of Friday's weather.
Sepa said immoderate rivers would not deed highest levels until aboriginal morning.
The clean-up cognition successful the affected areas is nether mode and assemblage remainder centres stay unfastened for those who request determination to shelter.
Transport is inactive affected and ScotRail said: "Following the utmost rainfall implicit the past fewer days, we're moving to inspect and reopen the routes which were closed yesterday arsenic rapidly arsenic we can."
It said the archetypal bid to tally from Aberdeen to Inverness would permission astatine 11:56.
Repairs to the East Coast Main Line which was closed connected Friday day - meant cross-border services could resume connected Saturday.
However, the enactment betwixt Dundee and Aberdeen remains closed owed to flooding astatine respective locations.
The Met Office lifted its amber upwind alert astatine 21:00 connected Friday, aft disruption saw galore roads rendered impassable and the East Coast Mainline was closed.
Traffic Scotland said the M9 remained closed westbound astatine junction 2 owed to flooding.
Some parts of the colony of Ballater connected Royal Deeside were near without power. Police went door-to-door successful immoderate areas asking radical to leave.
More than 300 properties successful Brechin, Angus, were fixed the accidental to evacuate and walk the nighttime successful a section schoolhouse amid fears of further flooding.