The River Avon is close to bursting its banks in St Anne's.

After the snow the floods have come, as the thaw-out from the recent freeze on top of heavy rainfall, has caused the river to rise to the edge of it’s banks and overflow.

The video shows the river close to bursting its banks in Crews Hole Road.

In parts it even flooded the footpath alongside the river and some gardens.

Residents in Butlers Close next to the river said they have not seen the river as high in years.

Amber Norris, aged 25, a manager at a travel agency, said: “It’s gone down a lot today but yesterday it was completely covering the footpath and coming into the communal garden at the bottom of the steps.

“I haven’t ever seen it this high.

“All the melting snow and ice is obviously having an effect.

“I work in Hanham and I use the road on the other side to get there, but there are people who get to work by walking along the footpath in the morning and they weren’t able to use it yesterday because it was completely flooded.”

One part of the communal gardens in Butlers Close has sloping levels and is covered in a puddle around a foot deep.

Barry Gromett, forecaster at the Met Office, said: “The River Avon is suffering, like a lot of rivers, from a combination of the heavy rain on Monday and the melting snow and ice.

“In Bristol rainfall in 24 hours was around 18ml, which isn’t a huge amount, but combined with all the ice snow melting and slipping into the river, it is causing some problems.”

In Weston-super-Mare the Tesco superstore in Station Road has been closed until Thursday morning after it was flooded.

The store was evacuated at 9pm on Tuesday night.