Summer storms have turned the roads of a Burmese town into a river.

Footage shows the brown water churning on a street in the Mekong Ward of Tachileik town in Shan State, Myanmar, on August 8. The deluge was impassable to smaller cars, but larger vehicles could power through the gushing flood.

Locals said Tachileik in eastern Shan had been battered by heavy rain early Monday morning.

The extent of the flood's damage is still unclear.

A resident said: 'When the Mae Sai river nearby floods because of the rainfall, water always enters the neighborhood including the San Sai A Ward and the Mekong Ward.'

The flood reportedly subsided before noon that day.

Myanmar and other countries in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand are in the middle of their tropical monsoon rainy season, which lasts until October or November.

Soaring temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius are often followed by powerful tropical storms with thunder, lightning, rain and flash floods.