An owner of a pigeon farm, Huang Yongyuan, inspects his flock on Thursday, a day after floods triggered by torrential rain submerged his farm in the town of Yinghong in Yingde, South China’s Guangdong province. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

On Sunday, the flood surged fast through the night, drowning pigeons at their cages. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

A pigeon stands next to two pigeon corpses on the farm. Huang didn’t sleep for three days in an effort to save more of the stranded birds, but only a few hundred survived. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

Pigeon eggs were submerged in floodwater. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

The farm was covered with silt after the flood. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

Huang, born in 1978, started the business five years ago. The farm, which is home to about 80,000 pigeons, has cost Huang a total of nearly 3 million yuan ($447,438) to run over the years. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

A resident clears water from her restaurant Thursday in Yinghong. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

Residents try to remove a damaged freezer from a grocery store. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

Floodwater washed medicine onto the ground of a clinic. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

A girl sorts damaged goods in a grocery store. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

A man carrying soaked clothes wades through a waterlogged street in Yinghong. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

A man returns home with a boat after the flood receded. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

Yinghong’s streets were left covered in silt after the flood. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin

The flood caused direct economic losses of over 155 million yuan in Yingde’s agriculture, livestock and fishery industries, according to the local government. Photo: Liang Yingfei/Caixin