The goods and materials were sent to the flooded areas just when they were in great need.
Locust eggs depend on soil moisture for their development, and both low and high rainfall can benefit them, as receding water levels and formerly flooded areas provide moist soil.
A Thai rescue worker sits next to a crocodile caught in a flooded area in Ayutthaya province October 15, 2011. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
Mr. Song said he spent Tuesday morning helping to evacuate the scattered remaining residents in soon-to-be-flooded areas of Beichuan county.
The hundreds of people camped on the levee were those who had no biraderi outside the flooded area, or who couldn’t afford to make the journey to them.
Fortunately, bumper crops were harvested in non-flooded areas of Australia, and the winter crop harvest in country was up 19% over the previous year’s crop, and was the biggest since 2003 – 2004.
A concert was given in aid of the flooded areas.
A man is helped out of water in a flooded area on the outskirts of the town of Tarnobrzeg, southeast Poland, Wednesday, May 19, 2010.
An unusual example from Bangladesh is "floating gardens" - using a base of aquatic weeds to grow vegetables - which allow cultivation in waterlogged and flooded areas.
The overseas Chinese donated medicine and clothes to the flooded area.
The person in the flooded area is suffering(from)cold and hunger.
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