Last week , the army corps of engineers exploded a three-kilometer-wide hole along an earthen levee in missouri .
上周,美国陆军工兵部队在密苏里州的土结构防洪堤炸开一个3公里宽的口子。
Later the car was found burned beside the mississippi river levee , with a charred corpse inside .
后来,这辆车在密西西比河岸堤被找到,但连同车内的尸体都已经被烧焦。
Breaks in the city 's levee system flooded 80 percent of the city with water .
城市防洪堤系统的破坏让水淹没了整个城市的80%。
More than 1800 people died in the storm and as a result of the levee breaks in new orleans .
在新奥尔良,因为防洪堤崩溃,超过1800人死于这场风暴。
I see the fog blowing off the mississippi levee and pooling in the streets , the victorian houses sticking out of the mist like ships on the gulf .
我看见雾在密西西比河的堤岸散开,汇聚到街道中,在雾中挺立的维多利亚式房屋就像海湾上的船只。
Last year , from where I stood on the levee , one would have seen orderly fields proceeding all the way to the river on the horizon .
去年,就在我站的堤坝上,可以看见那些有序的田地开始展露洪水来临的端倪。
The hundreds of people camped on the levee were those who had no biraderi outside the flooded area , or who couldn 't afford to make the journey to them .
那些驻扎在堤坝上的人都是在灾区以外的地方没有biraderi,或是无法负担旅行的人。
The father told me that the cow had been lost in the water for four days , and the previous night it had clambered up on another section of the levee , a mile away .
男主人告诉我那头牛发大水时丢了4天,昨晚它爬上了一英里外另一个堤坝。
John barry , in " rising tide , " his book about the 1927 flood , quotes a new york times account of a levee breach in washington county , mississippi , in 1912 .