New Delhi, July 14 -- SHENYANG - Zhao Jidong spent Sunday night knocking on doors in Hailong Township, routing families in Jilin province out of low-lying homes before floodwaters from Typhoon Bavi reached the ground floors. By early Tuesday, nearly 365,000 people had been evacuated across neighboring Liaoning province alone, with 14 rivers breaching warning levels and emergency flood responses activated in all 14 of the province's cities simultaneously.

"The flood peak has yet to pass, so we can't let our guard down," said Zhao, the Communist Party secretary for Hailong Township, as river gauges in Shenyang and Fushun continued to climb through Tuesday morning.

The scale of Tuesday's emergency reflects how far Typhoon Bavi has traveled...