Despite the sun coming out on Sunday afternoon there was no chance of a band playing in the band stand in the Caroline Symonds garden. Reader Hadyn Dix captured the torrent of water which washed over the park as this vehicle tried to drive down Wye Street. The Inflatable Fun Day, which was scheduled to take place here on Saturday, July 28th, has had to be cancelled, another casualty of the torrential rain. Charlotte Reynolds took the picture, left, which shows the depth of the water at the Rope Walk where the footbridge was almost covered.

Ross was not as badly hit by the recent floods as those towns which are on the banks of the Severn and the Thames. Ross had more than 50 millimetres of rain on Friday which did cause the River Wye to rise spectacularly and many people went out on Sunday taking photographs.

The recent flood misery has brought out the best and the worst in people this week. As always when there is a crisis many individuals pull together to help each other through the worst situations and even keep a wry sense of humour going. One local couple told us they were in Pershore on Friday morning, one of the worst hit places. By lunchtime they realised that getting home was not going to be easy and at five o'clock they booked into a hotel. The hotel, which has 110 bedrooms was fairly empty at this time with just a couple of cars in the car park. By the time the couple went down for dinner at 7.30pm the car park was full and people were being turned away. At breakfast the next morning everybody had to share tables and instead of just the usual polite 'good morning' everyone chatted away like long lost friends. Another man told us he had to abandon his car after trying many different routes home to Ross from Malvern. If it hadn't been for the kindness of strangers he would have had to spend the night in his car, as did thousands of people on Friday night. A couple he had never met before gave him food and drink and a bed for the night. A lady told us how her car broke down as she attempted to drive through standing water. There was no mobile phone signal so she was stranded. However when she knocked on the door of a nearby house she was welcomed in, was able to call for assistance and enjoy a hot drink. Unfortunately this sort of crisis brings out the worse in a minority, there were reports of abandoned cars being broken into. Also, there were thoughtless people removing barriers to closed roads and driving down them causing more water to be swept into people's homes or getting stuck, creating more unnecessary work for the emergency services. Young boys were spotted by the River Wye dragging the life preservers from the side of the river towards the bottom of Edde Cross Street and children have had to be warned repeatedly not to play in the contaminated flood water. Ross-in-Bloom organisers were deeply upset to find the flower baskets on the Market House had been vandalised on Saturday morning. Whilst the rest of the county was trying to get home and keep dry mindless vandals were destroying the baskets which had only been put up the week before.