美国东北部沿海社区的居民周日连续第二天在洪水中艰难行进，一场强烈的东北风暴猛击海岸线，导致数万户家庭断电。
Residents of coastal communities in the U.S. northeast slogged through floodwaters for a second day as a powerful nor'easter pummelled the shoreline Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes.
潮水涌入淹没了新泽西州的低洼社区，而阵风吹倒了纽约长岛的树木，损坏房屋并拉倒电线杆。
Tidal surges swamped low-lying neighbourhoods in New Jersey while wind gusts toppled trees on New York's Long Island, damaging homes and bringing down utility poles.
在新泽西州的海滨小镇锡布赖特，每次高潮都带来新一轮洪水。"这不是一次性事件，"卡罗琳·维雷尼厄斯说，她的车库灌进了约一英尺深的水。"它一次又一次地被淹。" 这场移动缓慢的风暴周六因树木倒塌导致一名纽约市住房管理局工作人员死亡，预计将持续到周日，给新英格兰地区带来暴雨、大风和危险的海浪。
In the New Jersey beach town of Sea Bright, each high tide brought a new round of flooding. "It's not like a one-time occurrence," said Caroline Virenius, whose garage filled with about a foot of water. "It's getting wet again and again." The slow-moving storm, which killed a New York City housing authority worker when a tree fell Saturday, was expected to linger through Sunday with heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous surf all the way to New England.
居民表示，极端降雨量——自周五以来新泽西州部分地区降雨超过10厘米——加上海水倒灌，导致一些习惯应对高水位的地方出现近十年来未见的洪水水位。
Extreme amounts of rain — more than 10 centimetres since Friday in some spots in New Jersey — combined with a surging ocean led to flooding amounts not seen for close to a decade in places used to dealing with high water, residents said.
航班、公用事业受影响 这场东北风暴勾起了人们对2012年"桑迪"超级风暴的记忆，那场风暴在美国东部造成超过600亿美元的损失。虽然这场风暴的影响远不及桑迪，但由于厄尔尼诺气候模式扰乱了今年的天气，它可能成为今秋美国东海岸几场风暴中的第一场。浪潮拍打海堤并冲上沙滩的画面引发了对海岸侵蚀的担忧。强风暴导致美国东北部大范围洪水和停电根据PowerOutage.us的数据，周日美国东北部和大西洋中部地区一度有超过10万用户断电。停电范围最广的地区是从新泽西州到康涅狄格州沿海的县份。
Flights, utilities affected The nor'easter triggered memories of Superstorm Sandy, which left behind over $60 billion US in damage across the eastern U.S. in 2012. While this storm's impact has been nowhere near that, it could be the first of several along the East Coast this fall because of an El Niño climate pattern that's disrupting this year's weather. Images of waves crashing into sea walls and onto beaches raised concerns about coastal erosion. Powerful storm causes widespread flooding, outages in northeast U.S. Well over 100,000 customers were without power across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic at times on Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us. The most widespread outages were in counties along the coast from New Jersey to Connecticut.
沿海地区众多航班被取消或延误。据马萨诸塞州港务局称，截至周日早上晚些时候，波士顿洛根国际机场已有250多个航班被取消，当时阵风速度达到64公里/小时。
Numerous flights were cancelled or delayed up and down the coast. More than 250 flights had been cancelled at Boston Logan International Airport by late Sunday morning as wind gusts reached 64 km/h, according to the Massachusetts Port Authority.
洪水担忧 预计周日从新泽西州北部到新英格兰南部将出现最强降雨。
Flooding concern The worst of the remaining rainfall was expected Sunday from northern New Jersey into southern New England.
虽然风暴正在逐渐减弱，但马里兰州大学公园国家气象局首席预报员鲍勃·奥拉韦克表示，潮汐洪水将持续到周日晚间的高潮周期。
While the storm was gradually weakening, tidal flooding would stay through high-tide cycles Sunday night, said Bob Oravec, a lead forecaster with the National Weather Service in College Park, Md.
部分电视气象学家想谈论气候变化。并非所有人都想听 在纽约市，霍华德海滩社区街道积水数英寸，但这并未阻止居民周日早上外出买咖啡。
Some TV meteorologists want to talk about climate change. Not everyone wants to hear it In New York City, water a few inches deep filled streets in the Howard Beach neighbourhood but didn't deter residents from venturing out for coffee Sunday morning.
在新泽西州北比奇黑文经营Jingles Bait and Tackle店的卡罗尔·安·帕尔默说，这是她10年来见过最严重的洪水。"昨天我简直不敢相信，水位就不断上涨，越来越高，"住在店铺楼上的帕尔默说。
Carole Ann Palmer, who owns Jingles Bait and Tackle in North Beach Haven, N.J., said this was the worst flooding she's seen in 10 years. "Yesterday, I was like, oh my God, it just keeps getting higher and higher," said Palmer, who lives above the store.
门前台阶被暴风雨冲走，周六她还看到邻居们划着皮划艇在街道上穿行。
The front step was swept away in the storm and she saw neighbours kayaking through the streets on Saturday.
夏威夷为飓风诺洛来袭做准备，面临灾难性洪水风险 她周日最大的麻烦是带两只小狗出门解手。她不得不穿上防水裤，把它们抱到干燥的地方。"我一次带一只，抱着它们过马路让它们解手，然后回来擦干，再带另一只。这简直是场锻炼，"帕尔默说。
Hawaii readies for arrival of Hurricane Nolo amid risks of catastrophic flooding Her biggest problem on Sunday was taking her two puppies outside to relieve themselves. She had to put on waders and carry them to dry land. "I take one at the time, carry them across the street so they can do their business and then come back, dry them off and then do the other one. It's a workout," Palmer said.
新泽西社区在桑迪飓风后准备更充分 伯纳德·道德周日涉过潮水回到他在锡布赖特的家中，前一天他下班回家发现地下室“灌满了水，像个游泳池”。但他表示，如果不是桑迪飓风重创社区后出台的新规定要求房主加高房屋高度，他周围社区的情况可能会糟糕得多。
N.J. community better prepared after Sandy Bernard Dowd waded through tidal water Sunday to get to his Sea Bright home, a day after he got back from work to find his basement "filled up like a swimming pool." But he said the situation around his neighbourhood likely would have been much worse if it weren't for new rules requiring homeowners to raise the height of their homes in the wake of Sandy, which devastated the community.
音频 说真话的气象员——并为此付出代价 他还注意到，社区周围许多人用沙袋堵住了自家房屋和商铺——这正是他希望自己早做的事。“我总觉得他们在夸大风暴，”他说。
Audio The weatherman who spoke the truth – and paid the price He also noticed that many around the community had lined their home and businesses with sandbags — something he wishes he would have done. "I'm always thinking they are hyping the storm," he said.