Impassable county lanes even for a fire engine, Backwell lake bursting its banks and Chapel Hill, the shortcut twixt Backwell and Nailsea, again proving a hazard for unsuspecting motorists.

This time it was a Waitrose delivery van that got stuck in the route under the railway bridge.

Andrew Tobin and Debra Britton took the photos at the lake.

Ann Fox said: “This is a selection of number plates and car parts left behind by vehicles speeding through the flood water near the entrance to Bristol Waterworks on Chelvey Road.

“Just drive slowly, it’s perfectly passable.

“Yesterday a car had to be towed away!”

At Crown Glass Shopping Centre in Nailsea Coffee #1 was forced to close as its roof leaked and some say the buckets were out next door at Superdrug.

These problems date make to New Look days as many former employees will attest.

However, one of the biggest problems is summed up by flat resident Sally who said: “Residents must pay for these repairs, we have paid thousands over the past 16 years to my knowledge, and every time the precinct changes hands the guarantees seem to vanish.

“Currently every home above the shops is being charged approximately £4-5k the get it fixed, yet again.

“We have been living on a building site for months.

“The contractor told them not to start work in winter but the property management company Praxis insisted.

“I have no words other than the stress and distress being suffered by private residents who have no control other than to be forced to pay, and the businesses who also suffer.

“Having lived here for decades, in truth , nothing has changed.”

While the workmen were out with the strong-smelling bitumen, at Scotch Horn Leisure Centre is was more buckets catching the rainwater.In the 1980s this was the situation at Nailsea School before it got a multi-million-pound new build in 2009 and end of problem.