Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
Their dead bodies float downstream until the flood recedes, and leaves them stranded on a bar or shore where they lie, half-buried in the sand until they decay.
As I said, it probably took about maybe 3 days for the floods to recede, but then I think emotionally people are still recovering now, you know, people who lost their lives, people who lost their pets and cows.