a small number of properties have been hit by flooding in cumbria today — as a month's worth of rain is expected to fall in just 36 hours. some holiday lets in cockermouth have been affected — but defences installed after 2009 have helped spare the kind of scenes witnessed during storm desmond in 2015. mark mcalindon reports. we are standing at the very point weathercock meets the derwent, the tv that run through cockermouth and you can see the height the figures now even at the peak has passed at one point this town came close to devastation. by and large, the flood defences here have protected most of the people here but i have been one or two properties where water got in. ~ �* , ., , , ., in. we've been through this before so it's aet in. we've been through this before so it's get up. _ in. we've been through this before so it's get up. get _ in. we've been through this before so it's get up, get on _ in. we've been through this before so it's get up, get on with - in. we've been through this before so it's get up, get on with it. - in. we've been through this before so it's get up, get on with it. yes, | so it's get up, get on with it. yes, it's upsetting that we kind of got a bit hard on to it, that used to it, and wejust bit hard on to it, that used to it, and we just have to crack on and