Up to 40,000 refugees will be moved to less hostile flat land.
Several people are looking into moving the house to less valuable land.
As the teak trees grew, villagers were moved to new land and the process was repeated.
Over 1700 residents, 300 homes, eight schools, six mills, four churches and one hotel were moved to dry land.
Those who managed to survive moved to more fertile land in the nearby area.
If they had any sense, they'd have moved to better land over there.
However, on April 22 the river stage increased at the rate of a foot an hour, causing people again to move to higher land.
One way around this problem is to move to new land and start over.
If the action had moved from water to land, it was happening on solid, but not arid, ground.
The folks that managed to survive moved to more fertile land in the nearby area.