Severe flooding continues

More than 250 people have been killed in Thailand in what some are calling the worst flooding in decades.
Residents in the old capital city of Ayutthaya used all means possible to vacate the area.
Families loaded belongings... including their pets... onto boats and rafts. Some walked through the thigh high water to dry ground.
One man said this is the worst flooding he's seen in 20 years.
(SOUNDBITE) (Thai) CHAIYA RUNROJ, RESIDENT SAYING,
"It's never been flooded in this village. I've bee living here more than twenty years and this is the first time it's flooded."
Officials say 28 provinces are now underwater.
Economic officials said earlier they would cut their GDP forecast from 4.4 percent to 3.6 percent due to the flooding.
Julie Noce, Reuters