From BBC News Nov. 2, 2007:
A massive rescue operation is under way in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco after rains caused the worst flooding there in more than 50 years.
More than one million people are believed to be affected, with 300,000 thought to be trapped in their homes and more rain forecast in coming days.
Most of the state is under water and its governor has urged anyone who owns a boat to help the rescue operation.
President Felipe Calderon said the situation was "extraordinarily grave".
"It's one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the country," he said in a televised address on Thursday night.
'Just like New Orleans'
Rescuers are using helicopters to try to pluck people from rooftops. Thousands of people are huddled inside their homes or emergency shelters.
The floods were triggered by storms that crippled Mexico's oil industry.
Tabasco Governor Andres Granier said more than half of the state's 2.1 million residents had been affected.
In pictures: Tabasco floods
"We have lost 100% of our crops and 70% of the state is under water," he told reporters.
"We are just like New Orleans. All the water that comes in has to be pumped out." So far, one person is known to have died in the floods.
High alert
Tabasco's capital, Villahermosa, and many other towns in the state have been turned into brown lakes with only treetops and roofs visible.
Soldiers and rescuers desperately stacked sandbags along Villahermosa's streets.
Sandbags were also placed around several giant heads carved by the Olmecs, an ancient pre-Columbian people, at Tabasco's La Venta archaeological site.
President Calderon has flown to the area and is promising more soldiers and aid. The state has been placed on high alert.
Oil industry woes
A Red Cross worker in Tabasco state said 70% of Villahermosa was affected and there was an urgent need for basic materials to help the rescue effort.
Those trying to help flood victims needed water supplies, food and mattresses, he told the BBC. 
An appeal was being made for boats and ropes, to help navigate the flooded streets and reach stranded victims.
The main priority for rescuers was to try and get all the affected people out, with concerns high because of forecasts suggesting more rain was due, he added.
Twenty-one people died last week when storms forced an oil platform into another rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dozens of workers had to leap into the water.
The storms have forced the closure of three of Mexico's main oil ports, preventing almost all exports and halting a fifth of the country's oil production. 
Flooding has also affected the southern state of Chiapas, where several thousand people have been moved to safety, Mexico's El Universal newspaper reports.
BBC News website readers in the Mexico flood area have been giving their accounts of the disaster: Your flood accounts
INTERNATIONAL HELP
The situation in the state of Tabasco is out of control. The efforts to rescue people from the affected places are many but not enough. International help is needed. The poorest people have been affected as they live in the most vulnerable areas. The Government, army, navy and residents are helping out to save lives, rescue people and to contain the flood from reaching the last parts uncovered by water.
Electricity and water have been disconnected in most of the capital of Tabasco. There are about 1 million people affected by the flood. Around 300 000 are still waiting to be rescued from roofs.
Today a national campaign to raise funds for the state has started. An international campaign (Just as the Tsunami, New Orleans, Earthquakes etc) would be of great help to support the southern region of Tabasco. The damage caused cannot be calculated just yet. However, the situation is critical, 80% percent of the state´s surface is now covered by water, almost 50% of the state population has been affected by the flood. In some urban areas the water levels have reached aroud 4 mts from the surface. This natural dissaster is one of the worst in the history of Tabasco and Mexico. Carlos , Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
CHAOTIC SITUATION
The situation that we are living is chaotic, there is no electricity, streets are blocked, people are stuck in their house. We ask for any kind of help -- clothes, blankets, food, water. The rivers are overflowing and most of the population is in extreme conditions. Please help us!! 80 per cent of families have lost their assets. Mariana Vazquez Lopez, Villahermosa, Tabasco
CROCODILE RUMOURS
I have been living here in Tabasco for the last 4 years I have never seen anything like this. Our house was in one of the first areas to flood and so we moved out leaving everything behind. We joined the people frantically filling sandbags to protect the city centre.
As the light was failing you could hear the shouts of the stranded people from across the river. In that area the water had reached the second floor of the houses and the people were on the roofs screaming to be rescued. Today the sandbags along the river broke and the water has now entered the city centre. The electricity has been cut and the whole city centre is in darkness.
There have been reports that the crocodiles that live in the lagoons around the city have travelled with the water into some residential areas and have taken dogs. People are frantic, families are split up everyone is searching for someone.
Villahermosa is a city united in disaster. Mark Pius Charlton, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
SCRABBLE FOR SANDBAGS
Per newscast television: The mayor of Villahermosa city ordered everyone to evacuate the city. This is drastic. The army built up levees with sandbags. Alas! Some people took bags from there back to their homes and the water started flooding in from the places with missing bags.
The trend has been more rain all the way inland, to "Altiplano" (the high-altitude plateau), increasing the rainfall unusually here.
I predict it will be normal as long as the hurricanes are increasing. More inland rain to this semi-arid zone, previously a forest until it was wiped out by grazing, mining needs, urbanization, and loss of diversity.
It seems that people need to go back to building on stilts all along the Gulf Coast. Marcela Andre Lopez, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
WATCHING THE RIVER
This situation is not new to us, but it is the worst flooding we've ever had. I've never seen something like this before. Local channel is broadcasting live all day and night long, and it's terrible to see how many people are suffering. Tens of thousands.
I live in a town about 40 mins away from Villahermosa (the state capital). Many people in here lost their home, their things but it isn't as bad as in Villahermosa though. And I'm thankful for that.
Although we're in danger, there's a river behind this town that's about to break and if this happens it will affect us even more. Tabasco is being helped, thanks to all the nice and kind people. But of course, it isn't enough... Yivania, Cardenas, Tabasco, Mexico.
SWAMPED ON DAY OF THE DEAD
The worst is still to happen since one of the main dams is nearly to burst and contingencies will be overtaken by the force of water. This is the worst scenario of course, we have run out of shelters for the seven hundred thousand people that are homeless now. We are in need of food, cloth, medicine, purified water and yes boats to rescue those that are still on roofs waiting to be rescued.
Today [1 November] we are celebrating the Day of the Dead and hopefully we won't have as many casualties since the government is making the necessary efforts to put everybody in safe places.Judith Castaneda Mayo, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
HELL WITHOUT THE PANIC
I arrived in Villahermosa from Campeche yesterday around 6pm, and it was raining lightly. I have barely no Spanish so didn't work out what was going on at first. After I left the bus station and headed into town I did notice that it was pretty quiet and everything seemed to be closed. The corner shop selling buckets and life jackets along with the usual stuff seemed odd.
There were also a fair number of people filling sandbags, and every TV I passed seemed to be showing a press conference with Pres. Calderon. Nevertheless, I made it to my hotel without incident. However, it did begin to dawn on me that things weren't quite right.
I remembered seeing the river looked awfully full when we passed over it on the way into town, and what might have been a park that was full of water. The queues at the supermarket (one of the few shops open - the only other one I noticed was selling menswear) were another sign. And there were more sandbags, and workmen frantically bricking up the bottom 3 feet of doors.
So I returned to the bus station, bought my ticket out for the next morning, patronised a hotdog stand that was literally the only food seller open, and returned to the hotel. Around 10 the power went out, leaving me to find my way to the bathroom with a lighter the desk clerk gave me. It never came back on, although the streetlights stayed lit.
This morning I packed up by natural light and headed out to find that the river had come to just across the street from the hotel. The way to the bus station was clear and the bus left only 20 minutes late. It took a while to get out of town what with the huge traffic jams and flooded streets, and I had a good view of the submerged houses, the river way over its banks, people stuck on roofs, the boats navigating the streets, tops of cars and one man a raft of empty water cooler bottles carefully transporting a cage full of budgies. I got off lightly - it looked like hell, although without any sense of panic. John Fairweather, London, UK
TRAFFIC AT A CRAWL
Traffic flows very slowly out of town. Food should be sufficient for now as the larger supermarkets has local storages. As for my own situation I'm on dry land and many others as well. We don't need to flee the city at this point as the water supply is stable. Allan Hansen, Villahermosa, Mexico
THE BRIDGE COMES DOWN
Jalapa is a town of Tabasco and it has been affected by the floodwater. The bridge that helps us to communicate to Villahermosa has broken and we are not able to leave at the moment. The governor says it will be repaired soon but we can't buy things of food and others... Angeles Hernandez, Jalapa, Tabasco, Mexico
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1. The State of Tabasco Official Site has many links to donation sites and account numbers for monetary donations: http://www.tabasco.gob.mx/ 
2. Root Coffee is collecting donations. You can send donations via Paypal to Root Coffee Here. (Thank you all for your generous contributions!) 
3. UNICEF USA has opened an account for Tabasco's displaced children,UNICEF's donation page is here. 
4. Operation USA is appealing to the public and corporations to aid in response to the flooding in Southern Mexico. Donation page for OPUSA is here. 
5. The Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles has posted their Bank Account for donations here: Wells Fargo Bank NA, account 599253401, BBVA BANCOMER account 2280300127, and ABA 1-2222-05-06 for deposits outside California. 
6. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has $1 million pledged to help its partners Caritas Mexicana and Caritas Tabasco. They are taking donations Here. 
7. Save the Children Moves to Assist Families in Flooded Mexico, they are taking online donations here 
8. In Canada, Bank of Montreal Account number.: 38748116488. Make payable to: Mexican-Canadian Cultural Association Ottawa-Gatineau (ACMCOG) 
9. In the United Kingdom the Mexican Embassy set up BANK HSBC Account Number: 81408224 SORT CODE: 40-03-22. Make payable to: Ayuda Tabasco 2007. 
10. En France Ambassade Mexique Ayuda Tabasco, Banque Societé Generale #: 00050752139 66 Código del banco:30003 Sucursal Paris Bourse (03020)75002 Paris 
13. The International Community Foundation (ICF), Azteca America and Fundacion Azteca are raising money through their International Water Emergency Relief Fund.
14. Grupo Salinas, Fundacion Azteca America and Azteca America call on anyone who would like to send donations to Tabasco. BBVA Bancomer, California, USA, Account name: Ayuda Tabasco 2007. Account number: 2280300127
15.Red Cross International Response Fund you can make a secure online donation and visit updates. 
