Hurricane Katrina was huge – it broke the levees and flooded the city.

卡飓风势力很强，摧毁筑堤，淹没新奥尔良。

The river levels are rising and officials want to relive pressure on the city's levees.

河水水位正在上升，官员们希望缓解河水对该市防洪堤的压力。

Severe flooding plagued several states today, and threatened to burst through aging levees.

今天几大州遭遇严重洪水，年久的防洪堤有决堤危险。

Building a berm, which is kind of like a levee.

建造护堤，有点像堤坝。

The Category 3 storm damaged the New Orleans levee system and flooded the city.

这场3级风暴毁坏新奥尔良的堤坝系统，淹没这座城市。

Louisiana's governor says the already swollen Mississippi River could overflow levees guarding the city.

路易斯安那州长称已经起的密西西比河或冲破保卫城市的堤岸。

U.S. inspectors are finding hundred of levees in danger of failing seven years after Hurricane Katrina.

卡飓风过后，美国检查人员发现近百座堤坝在未来7年内有崩塌的可能性。

In 2018, New Orleans finished an upgrade on seawalls and levees designed to protect the city.

2018年，新奥尔良完成用于保护城市的海堤和防洪堤的升级。

Right now we have to watch about the levee getting saturated and water trying to seep underneath of it.

现在我们必须监视逐渐饱和的堤坝及试图在下面渗透的河水。

Some 1,800 people are believed to have died as a result of that storm and the levees were later repaired.

据信，大约1800人死于那场风暴，堤坝后来得到。

It caused catastrophic failure in the levees that protected the city from flooding, contributing to the deaths of 1,500 people.

保护城市免受洪灾的防洪堤被破坏，导致1，500人死亡。

Kammeyer knows that if a significant amount of water breaches the levee, that would prevent him from planting his fields.

凯米尔知道, 如果大量的河水在堤上冲出缺口, 就会阻碍他在田间的种植。

Now, as you can see the structure, we have levees here on the sides, and then internal structures as well.

就像你看到的外面的这些结构和面这些结构一样。

And the levee broke and flooded our whole neighborhood.

当时堤防溃堤我们那一带全淹没。

The Mississippi is overtopping a few small levees north of St. Louis and Missouri.

密西西比河的水位已经超过密苏州圣路易斯北部的一些小型河堤。

A lot of the them already have levees around the edges and three feet is difficult but manageable in most places.

许多地方也已经在边缘建立防洪堤，三英尺对他们来说是困难，但大多数地方还是可以管控的。

Down here, there are about 10 houses that have been flooded by the Missouri River after a levee broke north of here.

本地有近10所房屋被密苏河引发的洪水冲垮，因为本地北部的一座防洪堤崩溃。

Next year the US army corp of engineers will hand over operation of a rebuilt system of levees, walls and flood gates.

明年美国工程兵部队的工程师们将接手负责操作系统重建堤坝，围墙及防洪门。

Well, he didn't speak directly to the levees, but he spoke directly to this sense that the government somehow failed New Orleans.

他并没有直接说到筑堤，但是他明确表示政府在新奥尔良遭受灾害时工作不力。

When the sea broke through the levee 12 years ago, Takalar took his family back to their home on the island of Sulawesi.

12年前，海水冲垮防波堤的时候，塔卡拉带着家人回到他们在苏拉威西岛的那个家。