新墨西哥州希普罗克一处被淹区域的航拍图。纳瓦霍族警察局 与非常活跃的厄尔尼诺驱动的太平洋飓风季相关的强降雨，已导致“四角地区”各州成千上万的人流离失所，或面临洪水过后的大规模清理工作。
An aerial view of a flooded area in Shiprock, New Mexico. Navajo Nation Police Department Intense rainstorms linked to a very active El Niño-driven Pacific hurricane season have left thousands of people in the Four Corners states displaced or facing massive cleanups from flooding.
相邻的科罗拉多州、新墨西哥州、犹他州和亚利桑那州上周均遭遇严重洪水，来自城市、城镇以及美国本土一些最偏远地区的损失评估才刚刚开始陆续传出。
The adjoining states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona all saw substantial flooding last week, and damage assessments are just starting to trickle in from cities, towns and some of the most remote territory in the continental U.S.
新墨西哥州北部城市法明顿受灾尤为重，暴雨倾泻在科罗拉多州的圣胡安山脉，洪水顺着圣胡安河奔涌而下，该河流经法明顿，最终汇入犹他州与亚利桑那州交界处的鲍威尔湖。
The northern New Mexico city of Farmington was hit particularly hard after torrential rains fell on the San Juan mountains in Colorado, sending floodwaters down the San Juan River that passes through Farmington on its way to Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border.
圣胡安河出现历史性涨幅 从科罗拉多州的帕戈萨斯普林斯，到新墨西哥州的布鲁姆菲尔德和犹他州的布拉夫，沿河的小城镇全都经历了历史性洪水，目前正在评估恢复重建面临的挑战。
San Juan River saw some of biggest surges Small towns all along the river, from Pagosa Springs, Colorado, to Bloomfield, New Mexico and Bluff, Utah all saw historic flooding and are now assessing recovery challenges.
法明顿约有4.6万居民，长期以来一直是煤炭、石油和天然气生产中心。它也是纳瓦霍族保留地东北部的重要枢纽，该保留地横跨三个州。法明顿居民最早于周三晚间开始在手机上收到疏散通知。
About 46,000 people live in Farmington, long a center for coal, oil and natural gas production. It's also an important hub for the northeast side of the Navajo reservation, which sprawls across three states. Farmington residents started getting evacuation notices on their phones as early as Wednesday night.
“我妹妹周四接到通知必须撤离，”在法明顿生活了65年多的康妮·古奇说。古奇的妹妹在圣胡安河附近的一个郊区社区有一栋房子。
"My sister was notified on Thursday that she had to get out," said Connie Gooch, who has lived in Farmington for more than 65 years. Gooch's sister owns a house in a suburban neighborhood near the San Juan River.
“每年她都要经历这事，”古奇说。“河水一涨，她就开始制作沙袋围堵。但今年涨势太快，她根本来不及做。” 新墨西哥州法明顿一处被淹区域的航拍图。
"Every year she goes through this," Gooch said. "The river starts rising, and she starts making sandbags to put around. But this year it was so fast she didn't have time to do that." An aerial view of a flooded area in Farmington, NM.
圣胡安县应急管理办公室 根据国家气象局法明顿河段水位站的数据，上周末仅36小时内，圣胡安河水体规模暴涨了13倍。
San Juan County Office of Emergency Management According to National Weather Service data from a river gauge in Farmington the San Juan grew 13 times larger in just 36 hours, late last week.
周四凌晨，河水水位约为3.5英尺。到周五，水位已升至14英尺，淹没了全城多个社区，并可能创下该市有记录以来的最高水位。
In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the river was about 3.5 feet high. By Friday, it was 14 feet high, flooding neighborhoods across the city, and possibly setting a record for the highest water ever recorded in the city.
这还是在法明顿上游的纳瓦霍水库基本能够拦蓄从山区奔涌而下的洪水之后发生的。但在水库下游，涌入该市的洪水来自两条通常干涸的支流——戈贝尔纳多峡谷和卡尼翁拉尔戈。
This even after the Navajo Reservoir upstream from Farmington was able to mostly contain water rushing down from the mountains. But downstream of the reservoir, flood surges into the city came from two normally dry tributaries, Gobernador Canyon and Cañon Largo.
“这是一场历史性的灾难性洪水，”圣胡安县公共信息官德文·尼利说。
"This is a catastrophic flood of historic proportions," said Devon Neeley, San Juan County's public information officer.
“这条河变得比我们一生中见过的任何时候都要宽。”一张航拍照片显示，希普罗克大桥横跨在泛滥的圣胡安河上。
"This river got wider than we have ever seen it in our lifetimes." An aerial image of the Shiprock Bridge spanning over a flooding San Juan River.
从科罗拉多山峰到亚利桑那沙漠类似的报道也从科罗拉多州圣胡安山脉的另一侧传来。
From Colorado peaks to Arizona deserts Similar reports are coming in from the other side of the San Juan mountains in Colorado.
“这和我们大多数人以前见过的完全不一样，”科罗拉多州小镇南福克消防与救援队队长泰勒·施密特说。该镇位于格兰德河畔。“我们有好几个社区被两到三英尺深的水淹没。”科罗拉多公共广播电台的丹·博伊斯报道称，救援人员的当务之急是随着水位回落解除最后的疏散令。受损桥梁需要评估。圣路易斯谷格兰德河沿线所有井水都需要检测。
"It's nothing like most of us have seen before," said Tyler Schmidt, captain of the fire and rescue team in the small town of South Fork, Colo. on the banks of the Rio Grande. "We had several neighborhoods that were under two to three feet of water." Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce reports that responders' immediate priorities are lifting final evacuation orders as waters recede. Damaged bridges need to be assessed. Well water all down the Rio Grande's path in the San Luis valley needs to be tested.
风暴对饮用水造成的其他影响还包括亚利桑那州塞多纳等地被淹的处理厂发生污水外溢。KNAU报道称，霍皮族保留地遭受了大范围破坏。
Other drinking water impacts from the storm include sewage spills from flooded treatment plants in Sedona, Arizona and other locations. KNAU reports extensive damage on the Hopi reservation.
霍皮族保留地被纳瓦霍族保留地环绕，后者也传出了救援、道路被冲毁以及历史性洪水的报道。
The Hopi reservation is surrounded by the Navajo reservation, where there have also been reports of rescues, washed out roads and flooding of historic proportions.
新墨西哥州圣胡安县的尼利说，消防人员、警察、国民警卫队士兵，甚至外州的急流救援队共救出了200至300名县居民。
San Juan County, New Mexico's Neeley said fire crews, police officers, National Guard troops, and even out-of-state swift water teams rescued between 200 and 300 county residents.
尼利说：“我们从被困在湍急水流中的车辆里把人拉了出来。我们还用直升机把人们从屋顶上救了下来。我们不仅动用了国民警卫队的高底盘车辆，还动用了两栖车辆，因为水位太高了。情况非常严重。”在新墨西哥州希普罗克，一个人沿着被洪水淹没的道路边缘行走。
"We have pulled people out of vehicles stuck in running washes. We have pulled people by helicopter off of rooftops," Neeley said. "We have used not only high-clearance vehicles from the National Guard, but amphibious vehicles because the water is so high. It's been a lot." A person walks along the edge of a flooded road in Shiprock, New Mexico.
救援工作正在进行中。到周日，雨势已经减弱，河流水位正在下降，一些居民开始返回家中评估洪水造成的损失。康妮·古奇把防水布和其他物资送到了她姐姐家。她说：“她家里的水涨到了四英尺高。”
Some relief in the works By Sunday, the rain had eased, river levels were falling, and some residents started returning home to assess flood damage. Connie Gooch delivered tarps and other materials to her sister's house. "The river was up four feet in her house," she said.
她发现整个街区的人都在把家具从家里搬出来，把拆除的废墟堆在前院。
She found a neighborhood full of people moving furniture out of their homes and piling demolition debris in their front yards.
古奇说：“到处都是卡车和汽车。我前面有个人拖着一辆装满石膏板的拖车，那些石膏板是从别人家里拆下来的。”但官员们希望数千名已疏散的居民暂时不要返回。
"There were trucks and cars all over the place," Gooch said. "There was a guy in front of me carrying a loaded trailer full of sheet rock that they'd chipped out of somebody's house." But officials want the thousands of evacuated residents to stay out for now.
圣胡安县消防局长戴维·维加在周日的公开简报会上说：“公众急于返回，我们理解这一点，我们对此表示同情。”维加补充说：“现在急流救援的部分已经过去了，但这给我们带来了一系列全新的危险。”
"The public is anxious to get back in; we recognize that, we're sympathetic to that," said San Juan County Fire Chief David Vega at a public briefing Sunday. "Now that the swift water component is out of the way, that exposes a whole new set of hazards for us," Vega added.
公共官员担心未经处理的污水、受损的燃气管道、带电的电线和洪水本身等危险。
Public officials are concerned about hazards like raw sewage and damaged gas lines, live power lines, and the floodwater itself.
维加说：“水是不卫生的。远离水。汽油、柴油、农药、化肥，这些都不是你希望沾在衣服上的东西。”在新墨西哥州希普罗克，北缘纳瓦霍赌场以东的36号公路上，一条被洪水淹没的道路。新墨西哥州州长米歇尔·卢汉·格里沙姆周一视察了圣胡安县。格里沙姆表示，仅基础设施的损失就可能高达数亿美元。
"The water is not healthy," Vega said. "Stay out of the water. Gas, diesel, pesticides, fertilizer, these are not things that you want on your clothes." A flooded road east of Northern Edge Navajo Casino on N36 in Shiprock, New Mexico. New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham visited San Juan County on Monday. Grisham said that the damage to infrastructure alone could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
针对圣胡安县经理迈克·斯塔克提出的灾后恢复费用估算，卢汉·格里沙姆说：“我希望我们只需要花3000万到4000万（美元）。”
"I hope we're only spending 30 to 40 million (dollars)," Lujan Grisham said, responding to recovery cost estimates from San Juan County manager Mike Stark.
“我们认为这可能更接近2亿到3亿美元之间，”卢汉·格里沙姆说。“单是环境问题、道路问题和基础设施问题，就非常昂贵。”
"We think this could be closer to between 200 and 300 million (dollars)," Lujan Grisham said. "The environmental issues and the road issues and infrastructure issues alone, really are expensive."
周一晚间，卢汉·格里沙姆州长发布声明称，联邦政府已“部分批准”新墨西哥州针对区域性洪灾提出的紧急状态声明请求。周二，卢汉·格里沙姆签署行政命令，拨出825万美元的额外州政府资金用于洪灾应对。
Monday night, Governor Lujan Grisham released an announcement stating that the federal government has "partially granted" New Mexico's request for an emergency declaration in response to the regional flooding. Yesterday, Lujan-Grisham signed executive orders making $8.25 million more in state funding available for flood response.