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It's a week that Cumbria will never forget.

Nine inches of rain and 90-mile-an-hour storms were to bring down more than half a million trees and flood towns like Appleby and Keswick, and the city of Carlisle.

They left tens of thousands of people without electricity for night after night. They saw some streets become a wasteland of sodden furniture and ruined carpets.

A flood-ruined teddy bear.

They left families to grieve for loved ones and the loss of prized possessions - and, in some cases, a way of life.

As the county slowly started to come to terms with the worst floods in recent history, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Cumbria looked back on a week it will never forget in a special programme - "Dark Water Rising"...

Listen & watch

Not only can you now listen to Dark Water Rising online, you can also watch the programme as a video presentation too.

We've taken many of the photographs sent in to us at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Cumbria and added them to the programme's sound-track.

Just choose how you want to view 'Dark Water Rising' by clicking one ofΜύ the links at the top-right-hand side of this page.