21.   Residents are furious that he proceeded to launch the campaign on Sunday while the region is battling its worst flood of the century.

22.   Striking police officers were ordered back to work Saturday to help cope with the worst floods of the century in south Norway.

23.   Sudan has mobilized its military reservists and militiamen to help counter the worst floods to hit the country in half a century.

24.   The Maputo daily newspaper Noticias reported Thursday that people and animals were climbing trees to escape the worst floods in two decades.

25.   The ministry had capped rice exports in the wake of the worst floods in three decades in the Mekong River region of southern Vietnam.

26.   Torrential rains swamped central Korea for a fourth day Saturday, creating the worst floods in five years.

27.   Thousands of people returned to their homes in Jakarta after the worst floods in three decades covered large swaths of the capital last week.

28.   Two months of punishing downpours caused the worst floods of the century in the Yangtze River valley and serious floods in other parts of the country.

29.   But its worst floods in a century hit North Korea last year, the World Food Program of the United Nations called upon the United States to send relief.

30.   Chen also acknowledged that the project had been delayed by the worst floods to hit China in a century.