Wool and the Cumbrian floods of 2009

I was listening to this Radio 4 programme earlier today...can it really be nearly a year since the floods hit? It made heartbreaking listening :(

There is talk of a surreal situation whereby the stock of a small wool shop (located near to the point where the river banks broke) was flooded out, unravelled and tied the entire town together.

Apparently it caused problems as it hindered the rescue boats but, in a sense, the imagery of the whole town being physically bound together (as it must have been in spirit) is quite lovely.