The wet weather is not entirely abnormal in the region, which is still in the midst of its wet season. Still, the extent of destruction has been particularly devastating in some locales in recent weeks.

Thai authorities said that the flooding had left at least 244 people dead, and some 28 provinces have been affected.

Filipinos, meanwhile, are trying to regain their footing after being pummeled by successive typhoons in the span of a week.

Typhoon Nesat - known locally as Pedring - claimed 55 lives, and the death toll from Nalgae - known locally as Quiel - rose to four earlier this week.

Nearby countries were also dealing with the aftermath of severe flooding.

That includes Laos, where the top official in Savannakhet province requested "large amounts of government funding" in 12 of 15 districts, money that could be used to repair irrigation systems and develop anti-flood systems, according to the state-run KPL news agency.

And in Cambodia, Agriculture minister H.E. Chan Saran said that flooding there had affected more than 330,000 hectares of rice fields and killed 1,000 working animals in 103 of the nation's 145 districts, the official AKP agency reported.