By Liz Lee

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) -The several hundred residents of Pingtou, a village in China’s sub-tropical south, have seen plenty of typhoons and rainstorms over the years. But nothing prepared them for this week’s flooding – the worst there in generations.

Knee-deep brown water still covered the main road into the village, in Guangdong province, on Friday as residents dragged damaged furniture and home appliances out of their homes, at least four of which collapsed in the downpour earlier this week.

“The older folks here say that in the 100 years we’ve been here, they’ve never experienced such flooding,” said one villager aged in his 50s who asked to use only his surname Zhong.

Floodwaters have never before entered his two-storey house, but this time they surged in, wrecking

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