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Storm Desmond has been wreaking havoc all over many parts of the UK. Many people have had to evacuate their homes because of flooding - including Carlisle United footballer Mark Gillespie who found himself trapped on the 2nd floor of a building, with the water level rising up the stairs. He described how he was rescued and taken away on a boat after being trapped for a day:

"I woke up and wasn't feeling too well so decided I wasn't well enough to travel {...} so basically I was staying in bed all day and that's when the bad weather started to hit. Mr Gillespie explained to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 5 live's Caroline Barker that he'd been watching the football and didn't realise how bad things had got until the police knocked on the door at twelve o'clock:

"The water was literally at the door and I thought 'something serious is going to happen here'. I wasn't feeling great and didn't want to walk out with nowhere to go, I didn't know the worst was yet to come."

At 9 o'clock the next morning the water had risen, it was "halfway up the stairs" and "covering the cars on the streets".

The emergency services had begun their rescue mission and Mr Gillespie was stranded on the second floor: "I phoned the police and there were more priority cases than me so from 9 o'clock til 6pm I was upstairs watching it unfold [...] eventually they came for me and I was lifted out of the upstairs window".

This clip is originally from 5 live Hit List on Sunday 6 December 2015.

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