While the flood waters appear to have peaked, thousands of people are still struggling without water or power in the worst floods to hit Britain in 30 years.
The Gloucester Citizen is providing excellent coverage of the continuing hardships many face.
Those commenting give a first-hand account of unexpected difficulties. Jo is exasperated that B&Q won't give out bottled water to children. (6pm: B&Q have called to point out that although they are acting as a distribution point, it is the local authorities that are deciding who gets what).
There's short shrift for those who have allegedly vandalised some of the bowsers, or water tanks, many are relying on in the absence of tap supplies.
The BBC has been inundated with photos of the flooding, billed yesterday as the worst in modern history.
In the finest traditions of modern citizen journalism, there are non-media flood photos here.
Sky News has a fascinating gallery of the 1947 floods, previously the benchmark for many areas. Bored of flood waters? Then the site also shows the extremely hot weather elsewhere in Europe.
3.00pm
Although the advice comes too late for many, the Environment Agency provides much useful information about flood defences.
Plastic skirts are available to surround a whole property, or temporary free-standing barriers can protect a group of properties.
But beware. The agency says some of its employees have been diverted from tackling the floods crisis and forced to act as security guards; thieves have been targeting the barriers as they are made of high-grade steel.
3.20pm
Julia Healthcote is appalled by reports of looting and profiteering. The Guardian's man in Gloucester, Steve Morris, says there are reports that water is being sold at £5 a bottle.
This all sound worryingly familiar. Writing about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Katrina Timothy Garton Ash wrote: "Remove the elementary staples of organised, civilised life- food, shelter, drinkable water, minimal personal security - and we go back within hours to a Hobbesian state of nature, a war of all against all."
Blogger Cernig says: "It is no hyperbole to say it is a mini-Katrina for Brown and that his star will fall fast if his government emulates the failures of Bush's administration."
Only a few weeks ago, but before all the rain in Yorkshire, the government's chief scientist Sir David King was warning that flash floods were likely to be Britain's biggest climate change problem.
4pm
Sir David commissioned the 2004 Future Flooding report which, among other things, concluded that 4 million people and property worth £200bn in Britain was at risk of flooding. That included 80,000 properties in towns and cities at risk from urban drains overflowing after heavy downpours.
Two weeks ago, the Environment Agency revealed that five times more properties were affected by sewers and drains flooding than by rivers overflowing in last month's flooding. Today the agency's head, Baroness Young, said a "serious look" at future drainage requirements was needed.
Back to the front line and the Guardian's Rachel Williams, who is in Reading, says the city's residents have been concocting sandbags out of 99p Tesco pillowcases. Flood levels in Reading are expected to peak in the coming hours.
Gloucestershire County Council, meanwhile, is appealing for portable loos for workers trying to patch up the sodden electricty substations.
4.10 pm
Melanie Phillips, reckons that anyone who suggests the flooding has anything to do with climate change is in "La-La Land". Writing on her blog site, she says: "Global warming means that whatever happens to the weather, wet dry, hot, cold-- it's all our own fault."
She adds: "Those who still nurture an old-fashioned regard for facts as opposed to tendentious and indeed ridiculous hypothesis might like to bear in mind that these torrential downpours are not unprecedented in Britain at all."
4.30pm
There are reports that a man died after jumping into the River Great Ouse, at Bedford. Incredibly, given the severity of the flooding, this is believed to be the first death of this flood.
