This is the moment a man CANOED down a main road completely submerged in water - after Birmingham was battered by flash flooding yesterday.

Thornbridge Avenue is usually one of the busiest routes through Great Barr, but after the torrential rain left it almost impassable yesterday the best way to traverse it was by boat.

The paddler glides through the water outside The Beeches pub - at the same time the downpours were creating chaos across the region, bringing roads and railways to a standstill.

The video was posted to Facebook by Talia Dewhurst under the title ‘This man is canoeing – talk about crazy’.

It has been viewed a whopping 33,000 times since it was posted at 6pm yesterday.

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Mum-of-two Talia told the Mail; “I’d just finished work and was trying to fetch my daughter from nursery, but we had been diverted four times. I just happened to see this man canoeing outside The Beeches pub and had to stop to get a video, it was crazy.

“You can hear in the video we were all cheering him on. It was brilliant – a good laugh in the middle of the awful weather.”

Forecasters are predicting a mercifully dry day today after the sudden downpours wreaked havoc yesterday.

More than 100 homes in Great Barr and Perry Barr woke up to major flood damage this morning and a number of schools are closed.

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