Cumbria floods stir bad memories for Somerset residents still on edge

People who fled their homes when the water rose in early 2014 say the hardest part was coming back and seeing all the work to be done

"I really do feel for those poor people in Cumbria," said Margaret Lock, a 72-year-old carer. "They are in for a very difficult time. For me, the worst wasn't leaving. It was the coming back that was most traumatic, seeing the mess and realising there was so much work to do."

Lock has firsthand experience of what is it like to be driven from a beloved home by flooding. She was one of the scores of residents who had to flee when murky, smelly water spilled into homes in the villages of Moorland and Fordgate on the Somerset Levels in February 2014.