Family Forced to sleep in a Supermarket, Two nights in Emergency Shelters and lived off donated food after being ca

A family were forced to sleep in a supermarket, spent two nights in emergency shelters and lived off donated food after being caught up in devastating floods.

Debbie and Justin Goddard and their three children lost their car, clothes and everything they had with them after becoming stranded in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.

At one point they had to be moved between emergency shelters by raft because all roads in the town were under several feet of water.

The nightmare journey home to Mountsorrel, Loughborough, Leicestershire  from Cornwall ended up taking five days.

Justin, 31, said: "It still all seems a bit surreal now that we're back. I still can't believe how fast the river came up around us and it was a scary experience.

"That first night it was like War of the Worlds with all the helicopters with searchlights hovering around in the sky.

"But the truth is we have only lost our car and a few possessions that were in it. Other people have lost everything, so we're pretty lucky by comparison."