On average, the area is flooded for around three months every year.
The town was abandoned after the river flooded for 22 days in 1969.
Some 20,000 acres were flooded for a period of over three weeks.
Recipients had to live in a house that flooded for more than 7 days.
Heat flooded Sebastian's face for the first time in decades.
The new market a few kilometers away was severely flooded for almost as long.
The slaughter program, which went into effect in the spring of 1986, flooded the market for red meat.
It does best on land that is flooded for a few days and then dries up.
The village was flooded again in February 1953, hopefully for the last time.
The region is flooded for almost half a year.