Most of the storm's casualties occurred in southeast Louisiana, where flooding washed away many of the levees protecting the area.

风暴中大多数人员伤亡发生在路易斯安那东南部，因为洪水冲走了许多保护这个地区的堤坝。

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Social mobilization activities, including targeting health workers, are under way but access to affected areas in Garissa is difficult due to flooding in the area.

正在开展社会动员活动，包括以卫生工作者为目标的社会动员活动，但是由于该地区的洪水，难以进入加里萨受影响的地区。

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Take two cases: since the tsunami, Sri Lanka's largest telephone company has started an early-warning system which would send SMS messages to every mobile phone in an area at risk of flooding.

举两个事例：海啸发生以来，斯里兰卡最大的电话公司已经启动了一个预警系统，后者将向处于洪水泛滥危险区域内的每一部移动电话发送短消息。

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She says the work still is not easy, though,considering this is the country's worst flooding in more than 80 years and the area's mountainous terrain can make transportation difficult, even in the best of weather.

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First Great Western said train services from Cheltenham to London were delayed in the Swindon area due to flooding.

BBC: Power restored after heavy snow

The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of North Dakota and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local response efforts in the area threatened by flooding beginning on February 26, 2010, and continuing.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Signs North Dakota Emergency Declaration

They chalked up their problems in the New York area to devastating flooding that, in addition to knocking out power, disabled backup generators and disrupted the underground cables that carry calls, texts and Web searches from cell towers back to the main networks.

WSJ: Outages Expose Wireless Carriers' Backup Plans