Photo Gallery Flooding in Britain
A local resident carries a sandbag: Local residents in Oxford, the historical British university town, took last steps to try to protect their homes on Tuesday and Wednesday morning as the worst floods seen in Britain in 60 years arrived.
A rescue worker walks through the rising flood waters in Oxford. Floodwaters on the city's streets rose as high as 4 meters.
Resident Philip Marsden uses his punt for transport in flood water at his home in Oxford. Rising flood waters drove dozens of people out of their homes in Oxford on Wednesday as the surge from Britain's worst flooding in 60 years continued its slow progress down the Thames valley.
A Gloucester resident walks through a severely flooded street after the Severn River burst its banks due to heavy rainfall. Residents of central and western England face a huge clean up operation after days of heavy rainfall have left thousands of homes uninhabitable.
A young man rides his bike through rising flood waters in Oxford. The area heaviest hit by the flooding is located about a mile from Oxford University. The historic university buildings have been spared of flooding.
The town of Tewkesbury, pictured here on Tuesday, took a beating as floodwaters from the Severn and Avon rivers struck. Close to 350,000 people in the Gloucester-Tewkesbury are without treated water service.
Police and other city officials in Gloucester and other parts of Britain distributed bottled water to residents on Wednesday. With many areas without power or clean water, it will be days before normal life can resume in the cities and villages affected by the flooding.
