By Mark Simpson BBC North of England correspondent

Lisa and her family are able to stay with relatives

Of all the survivors of the floods, few have suffered as much as Lisa Bleything and her family in Toll Bar, South Yorkshire.

The living room and kitchen of their house were swamped - as was Lisa's workplace and her son's school.

It was a triple blow and it all happened in a flash.

"My head is a shed," says Lisa, who has to juggle the school run with the clearing up - as well as phonecalls to the insurance company, builders, plumbers, decorators, the electricity board, the water service and the gas man.

"I have so much to think about and it is hard," she says.

"I have to try to think of the positives though. I have to look at that big hole in the living room floor and think of what it will look like eventually, not the way it looks now."

Insurance

That hole used to be the living room for a family of four.

"It's devastating," she says. "It doesn't feel like my home any more."

Lisa lives on Toll Bar's main street with her son Samuel, who is nine, 17-year-old daughter Susan, and husband Ian.

They were forced to leave at 4am on the night the torrential rain came and have been crammed into Lisa's mother's home, 20 miles away in Town Moor, ever since.

It will cost thousands of pounds to put right the damage

They are trying to find a caravan to live in so they can get back to Toll Bar.

This is just one of the thousands of families coping with the aftermath of the floods. A tear is never far from Lisa's eye but she tries to be strong, especially in front of the children.

It will cost thousands to repair her home - but she has had support from her insurers.

Raining again

In recent weeks the nation's media has walked or sailed past her front door.

Prince Charles came on a dinghy to see the centre of the village, and once the water had gone Prime Minister Gordon Brown came too.

Lisa is not sure whether their visits will make a difference. "If they follow through on what they've said, then it will," she said.

"They have to do what they can for us now."

Inch by inch her home is becoming a little bit drier - but in South Yorkshire it is raining again, which is not helping.

Lisa is clinging to the hope that she and her family might be able to move back in to their home before Christmas.

The cold reality is that there is no chance.