美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-09-01

 Relentless waves of rain, some serious and dangerous flooding and more than three quarters of a million people without power. That is the impact of the storm named Isaac had along the U.S. Gulf¹ Coast. This is what it looked like. These are images of the storm that were taken from the international space station. When Isaac made landfall on Tuesday night, it was a category one hurricane, it was downgraded to a tropical storm yesterday, but that didn`t mean that things eased up on the ground.Part of the reason is that Isaac is moving really slowly, and the slower it moves, the longer it has to pound the Gulf Coast. Check out the conditions that some of our reporters were in from Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.

 

The wind is just whipping these trees, a huge danger of flying debris³. I`ve got to kind of keep an eye out. My brave photojournalist Ken² Tooey and I are going to be taking you through some of the -- an illustration of some of what they are dealing⁴ with here.

 

You`ve got a huge warehouse<sup>5</sup> behind the camera, you`ve got the huge ballroom⁶ to my left here, and kind of the outdoor part of the facility is this canopy⁷ structure, which is coming apart with the winds of this storm.

 

Right now, I feel like I`m being attacked by a swarm<sup>8</sup> of bees, the rain. It`s coming in really strong, it`s just stinging as it blows up against you and hits your skin.

 

This city has been buffeted⁹ ever since last night, but definitely with sunrise it has gotten harder and heavier to stand out of this weather.

 

In a lot of areas around New Orleans, the levy¹⁰ system that was rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina helped deal with the all the downpour, but water went out over the top of one levy that wasn`t part of that upgrade. That led to sever¹¹ flooding and more than 150 calls from people needing to be rescued. Ed Lavandera was in another house that was trying to hold back the rising waters.

 

We`re in the midst of going through Hurricane Isaac here in Grand Isle<sup>12</sup>, Louisiana. We`re going to come and give you sense of the conditions that we are battling against. Right now we are in the garage of Dean Blanchard`s  home. This is ground level. And you can see now the storm surge and the water is now starting to come into the garage here, and this is where things start getting a little bit dicey. And this is what the water does, it moves slowly. Look right over here, as each wave kind of comes in, it gets - creeps closer and closer.

 

This is the entrance into the house, into the ground floor.I wanted to show you this shot. You can`t keep this door open very long, the wind is just too - too much. What we are dealing with here is the water gets - creeps closer to where we are, it`s hard to keep this door open, work with me, but this is the storm surge. This is the - ah, sorry. See how fast moving the water is all around us. We probably got another two feet here before water starts coming inside the house. It`s hard to keep the door open with the wind, but just look at how powerful that water is coming across the yard. We gave you the ground level view of the storm surge and the water pushing by the house, but this is what we needed to stay away from, we just don`t know how high this is going to get. And obviously being on the ground floor is too dangerous, and being down there with all our equipment is not smart either. And then one last thing I`m going to show you, I`m going to show you the one - the room that has basically kept us on the air and able to do all the reporting we`ve done all day.

 

We took one look at this generator¹³ here, we knew that we`d be in good shape. This generator is able to power up the house and keep it on. No problem here, it`s absolutely amazing. It`s gone out a couple of times, you know, kind of been struggling a little bit, but you can`t complain. We`ve been able to stay up through the worst part of this storm. So, thank God we have that with us.

 

Ed did that report at about midnight on Tuesday. For the next morning he said the house did flood. There were three to four feet of water in the garage. 

 

This week we`ve talked about Isaac. Its projected path, its wind speeds, when it might turn from a tropical storm into a hurricane. These are some of the people who helped figure all that out, the hurricane hunters. They work for NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric¹⁴ Administration, and this animation¹⁵ shows what they do. These hurricane hunters fly into the storm and then they fly all over around it, crossing over the eye, hitting the outer bands, you see all those labels here. What the hurricane hunters are doing, as they fly around, is dropping off probes, they measure things like temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction. And then the probes use satellites to send that information back to forecasters on the ground.

 

All right. We are going to leave the Gulf of Mexico now, and travel across the Pacific Ocean to eastern Asia. In this part of the world, hurricanes are called typhoons. And right now, the Korean Peninsula is recovering from a major one. We told you about Typhoon Bolaven earlier this week, as it moved across the Japanese island of Okinawa. That island made it through the storm without too much damage, but it was a different story in South Korea. You can see of the damage from Bolaven strong wind and rain, at least 16 people were killed. And hundreds of thousands of people lost power. A lot of transportation was cut off as well.

1 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

2 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

3 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

4 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

5 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

6 ballroom   

n.舞厅

参考例句：

• The boss of the ballroom excused them the fee.舞厅老板给他们免费。
• I go ballroom dancing twice a week.我一个星期跳两次交际舞。

7 canopy   

n.天篷，遮篷

参考例句：

• The trees formed a leafy canopy above their heads.树木在他们头顶上空形成了一个枝叶茂盛的遮篷。
• They lay down under a canopy of stars.他们躺在繁星点点的天幕下。

8 swarm   

n.(昆虫)等一大群；vi.成群飞舞；蜂拥而入

参考例句：

• There is a swarm of bees in the tree.这树上有一窝蜜蜂。
• A swarm of ants are moving busily.一群蚂蚁正在忙碌地搬家。

9 buffeted   

反复敲打( buffet的过去式和过去分词 )； 连续猛击； 打来打去； 推来搡去

参考例句：

• to be buffeted by the wind 被风吹得左右摇摆
• We were buffeted by the wind and the rain. 我们遭到风雨的袭击。

10 levy   

n.征收税或其他款项，征收额

参考例句：

• They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
• A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。

11 sever   

v.切开，割开；断绝，中断

参考例句：

• She wanted to sever all her connections with the firm.她想断绝和那家公司的所有联系。
• We must never sever the cultural vein of our nation.我们不能割断民族的文化血脉。

12 isle   

n.小岛，岛

参考例句：

• He is from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.他来自爱尔兰海的马恩岛。
• The boat left for the paradise isle of Bali.小船驶向天堂一般的巴厘岛。

13 generator   

n.发电机，发生器

参考例句：

• All the while the giant generator poured out its power.巨大的发电机一刻不停地发出电力。
• This is an alternating current generator.这是一台交流发电机。

14 atmospheric   

adj.大气的，空气的；大气层的；大气所引起的

参考例句：

• Sea surface temperatures and atmospheric circulation are strongly coupled.海洋表面温度与大气环流是密切相关的。
• Clouds return radiant energy to the surface primarily via the atmospheric window.云主要通过大气窗区向地表辐射能量。

15 animation   

n.活泼，兴奋，卡通片／动画片的制作

参考例句：

• They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
• The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。