The Environment Agency said uplands and areas that experienced heavy rain earlier this week were more at risk and it had teams checking flood defences, clearing river blockages and monitoring river levels.
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"It started to rain really hard in the evening, and began to flood, " said Augustina Garcia Orsi, a 25-year-old student.
The Environment Agency said a number of flood warnings and flood alerts remained in place, with more rain forecast.
It said it was receiving a high number of flood-related calls and, with more rain forecast, urged the public to call 999 only if there was a risk to life or risk of serious property or environmental damage.
There is also a flood alert for the River Culm due to the rain and melting snow.
It concluded that more than 8, 600 homes, 1, 300 business and 90 schools suffered flood damage as a result of the heavy rain.
Mozambican Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao warned that the rain of the past 48 hours could cause rivers to burst again and re-flood areas just beginning to dry out.
Flood defences have been put up in Worcestershire as melting snow and heavy rain raise the river levels.
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The Woodland Trust said the planting also had the unexpected benefit of reducing water run-off from grassland in heavy rain, and led to research and important new evidence of the role trees can play in flood control.
But at the same time, rain is falling inside the walls and must be pumped out, or you get a different kind of flood.
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More than 80 flood warnings and nearly 300 alerts are in place across Britain as thawing snow and heavy rain push river levels higher.
National Weather Service officials said Sunday several river regions were at "record flood territory, " and while rivers in many locations were close to cresting, additional rain over the coming days could prevent them from receding quickly.
The Environment Agency says rain and melting snow are expected to lead to rising water levels in rivers in south-west England and has three flood warnings in place.
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