Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand this past week, you’ll know that there have been some dramatic scenes in the UK, particularly in Cumbria where the UKseries.com team is based. It’s been quite tragic really and, for many, as the clean-up operation gets underway, it’s going to be a long time before normal life resumes.
Cockermouth was among the worst hit towns and the follow video shows footage of the town and the surrounding area, taken from a helicopter, and demonstrates just how wide an area it covered.
Less publicised in the media was the South Lakes. Bowness-on-Windermere experienced flooding to levels that I had not previously seen. The footage that follows shows the devastation around the ticket office area for the Windermere Steamers, but please note that this is shot some time after as the lake level got significantly higher than is shown.
And one of the areas that shocked me most and doesn’t seem to have been featured much at all excepted by Granada TV is the Backbarrow/Newby Bridge near the southern tip of Windermere. Just look at this scene taking place right next to the Whitewater Hotel.
Hopefully all the residents and business affected will get all the support that they need and will be able to return to some degree of normality as soon as possible.
