Later, a summer flood destroyed a third of the crops in the area.
The flow of charity money after last summer floods has also given a boost to the remittances this year, they say.
A year on, they might be pleased if the summer floods of 2007 could be forgotten a little more quickly.
A22 About 500 corpses disturbed by summer floods were reburied.
But who would believe anyone could cross a Great Gorge in the middle of the summer flood?
A baiji was introduced in December 1995, but died during the summer flood of 1996.
"That's how high the Amazon rises every year in its early summer flood."
She was doing some stalking of her own, and the anticipation was rising like a hot river in a summer flood.
A spring tide, a summer flood, an unending river of wings!
In Central Europe, summer floods are becoming increasingly frequent and devastating.