{"id":75448,"date":"2025-12-02T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/the-current-could-kill-an-elephant-asia-flood-survivors-describe-escaping-with-their-lives"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:55:12","slug":"the-current-could-kill-an-elephant-asia-flood-survivors-describe-escaping-with-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75448","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The current could kill an elephant\u2019: Asia flood survivors describe escaping with their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Thailand to Indonesia, torrential flooding has carried away people\u2019s possessions and homes, upending entire communities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/asia-floods-visual-guide-flooding-extreme-weather-cyclones-monsoon\">How cyclones and monsoon rains converged to devastate parts of Asia \u2013 visual guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aminah Ali, 63, was at home in the Pidie Jaya district of Indonesia\u2019s Aceh province when the rains started at midnight on Wednesday. The waters rose gradually. It seemed like the usual flooding that happens during monsoon season, but then came a loud roar of water: her village was suddenly inundated.<\/p>\n<p>With help from her son, she managed to clamber on to her rooftop, where she waited for 24 hours. Flood waters, 3 metres high, stretched into the distance. \u201cI saw many houses being swept away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/01\/the-current-could-kill-an-elephant-asia-flood-survivors-describe-escaping-with-their-lives\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Thailand to Indonesia, torrential flooding has carried away people\u2019s possessions and homes, upending entire communitiesHow cyclones and monsoon rains converged to devastate parts of Asia \u2013 visual guideAminah Ali, 63, was at home in the Pidie Jaya &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,455,313,156,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-indonesia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75449,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75448\/revisions\/75449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}