He says the flooding is the most severe disaster to hit the community in over 50 years.

他说，这次洪水，将是50年来本地遭遇到最大的灾难。

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The impact of drought climate has the characteristics of long duration, wide range and severe disaster degree.

干旱气候的影响具有持续时间长、范围广、灾害程度重的特点，而干旱指标是衡量干旱气候的标准。

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The loss rate of late rice is 29% in more severe disaster year which reaches great disaster, meanwhile the loss rate of early rice is approximately 10%.

晚稻灾害最严重的年份灾损率达29%，基本上达到了大灾的程度，而早稻的灾损率大多在10%左右。

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"It not only will affect the growth and the economic development, but it will have a severe consequence especially on the disaster emergency relief funding that will be required,"

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Western Digital did not suffer a less severe disaster than its competitors who also have facilities in Bangkok.

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"This may be the most severe natural disaster that we've faced in this country, " says Carol North, a psychiatrist at Washington University School of Medicine.

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The disaster has had a severe impact on local industries, contaminating farm produce including vegetables, dairy products, fish, mushrooms and green tea.

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