[General] I hope you're well in the flood.

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Silverobama

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Hi.

One of my friends lives in Hechuan. A few days ago, the flood from Chengdu moved to her city Hechuan. I thought her home might be flooed so I said "I hope you're well in the flood" to her. I wonder if it's natural to say this.
 
That seems to imply that your friend has been inundated.
 
It sounds a little stilted in English. A natural expression (BrE) would be "I hope that you are coping with the floods" or possibly "I hope you are well despite the floods".

I have no idea why we would put "flood" into the plural there, it is just natural colloquial English. An alternative would be "flooding".
 
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I thought her home might be flooed

Take care with your spelling. Given that your entire post is about flooding, this was a very unfortunate word to misspell. Have you installed an English spellchecker yet on your browser? If you had, you would have seen that word underline in red, indicating a spelling error.
 
Try something like:
I hope you haven't been affected by the flooding.
 
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