2016 has been a difficult year in many ways, with celebrities dying, Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
But even with the beating that Somerset took during
Storm Angus in November, there is one crumb of comfort which we can take: the Levels and Moors did not flood.
In fact, since the disastrous floods of 2013/14 - when the village of Muchelney was cut off for ten weeks - there have been big strides forward in preventing future disasters of that magnitude.
But even with this...
