In The south-west toe of the UK, 2012 was the year that the weather played Scrooge to everybody's festive plans. In the five days leading up to Christmas, the seaside city of Plymouth got more rain than it usually gets in the whole of December. In Braunton, 80 kilometres to the north, the river Caen overwhelmed a recently completed flood-control project, inundating the town with water instead of shoppers. The main rail link connecting the region to the rest of the UK was cut off for six days. Even for an area more accustomed to wet than white Christmases, it was out of the ordinary.
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