People try to pull a tree (unseen), which was blocking the flow of the water, out of a flooded area, as Tropical Storm Sepat hits Yongxing County, central China's Hunan Province, August 21, 2007.

Tropical Storm Sepat, which had made landfall as a typhoon in China on Sunday bringing torrential rain and powerful winds, had also damaged houses, ruined crops and cut power supply lines in eastern and southern China, Xinhua News Agency said.

(Source: REUTERS)