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27 Staggering New Pictures Of The Somerset Levels Floods

The new shots, taken today, show the evacuated areas around Burrowbridge, Bridgwater, and Moorland.

Burrowbridge, Somerset

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Bridgwater area, Somerset

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14. The main railway line through Somerset near Bridgwater is now completely underwater in places.

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Moorland, Somerset

16. The village of Moorland is now almost completely abandoned.

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21. Sam Notaro is one of the people left: He is continuing his desperate efforts to save his £1 million new-build house from the floods.

22. He has constructed a mud bank around his property and has used plastic sheets and sandbags around the house itself.

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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article stated that there was only one resident left in the village of Moorland. A resident has contacted BuzzFeed to say there are in fact a number of residents left in the town, in 13 houses and bungalows, still battling to keep the flood waters at bay. (10/2/2014, 9:15 a.m. GMT)