The man who came to fix my roof certainly did a number on me. He said he'd do the work for 1, 500 dollars but when he finished, he charged me more than 3, 000!

来给我修屋顶那个人骗了我，他起先开价1,500美元，但是完工后却要3,000多美元。

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“The waves came over the dunes and pushed the dunes into the houses and filled them to the roof with sand, ” he recalled.

“海浪扫过沙丘，把沙子卷入房子，屋顶上也都是沙子。” 他回想道。

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The roof, which came next, has a layer of straw bales for insulation and is covered with sheets of plastic to make it waterproof.

其次是屋顶，用秸秆捆覆盖，外加塑料板以防水。

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But the City of Indianapolis came to the rescue. It bought the theater building in the 1980s and leased the Roof Ballroom to a developer, who not only fixed it up but installed what it called a scene machine to add more moody sky effects like synthetic snowfall.

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And when Katrina came, it went all the way up to the roof of the house.

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But she died as the family rode out Katrina for eight hours on a roof, and the family had to leave her body behind when rescuers came.

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