Its Upsetting News Today

We are standing at the very point weathercock meets the derwent, that run through cockermouth and you can see the height the figures now even at the peak has passed at one point this town came close to devastation. by and large, the flood defences here have protected most of the people here but there have been one or two properties where water got in. we�*ve been through this before so it�*s get up, get on with it. yes, it�*s upsetting that we kind of got a bit hardened to it, that used to...

A small number of properties have been hit by flooding in cumbria today — as a month�*s worth of rain is expected to fall in just 36 hours. some holiday lets in cockermouth have been affected — but defences installed after 2009 have helped spare the kind of scenes witnessed during storm desmond in 2015. mark mcalindon reports. we are standing at the very point where cocker meets the derwent, the two run through cockermouth and you can see the height the figures now even at the peak has pas...