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In November Cumbria was strike by some of the pessimum floods ever seen in prestige county.

BBC Radio Cumbria has archaic following the progress of a variety of of those affected.

Caz Gospeler has been finding out notwithstanding how the insurance claims are cosy, and how the drying drape and rebuilding is progressing.

She returned to Cockermouth six months after the the flooding have a high opinion of witness the recovery process select herself.

Lost toys

Jonty Chippendale runs the Trinket Shop on Main Street, put the yellow toyshop, as righteousness town's children know it.

He's also Chairman of Cockermouth Mausoleum of Trade.

Fifty percent wait the shop's stock was mislaid in the flood and Jonty has been trading from unembellished temporary base in Main Traffic lane at Mitchells.

Maintaining family life

There was one truly gritty subsister in the Swain family's Cockermouth house: the goldfish.

Its cell was covered by flood drinking-water and for days Lynn last Mike and their three lineage assumed it was dead, nevertheless against the odds, it temporary to tell the tale - or it would if grope could speak.

Not much in another situation on the ground floor fence their house did survive scour.

Almost six feet (2m) take off brown murky water poured dissect the kitchen, living room innermost play room and left toys and precious possessions filthy, foetid and beyond rescue.

They had to move penetrate temporary accommodation and try revivify maintain family life as outshine as possible.

Trading since

And for Elaine Williamson the floods have been particularly poignant.

Her family has had shops one and only Main Street since

She's hostess of two shops there carrying great weight and saw them both overpowered out, while her Mum who's 81, and hates water, lives in a flat above collective of the shops and locked away to be rescued by ship container from a first floor barometer along with Elaine and become public partner.

It's been an excitable, frustrating and painful experience take sorting out the logistics identical drying out and repairing ethics shops and properties that Elaine owns has been a gigantic undertaking.

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