Consider these different scenes: a tranquil tropic isle with turquoise water lapping at a white, sandy beach; storm waves pounding a rocky New England shore; a densely packed vacation beach.

试着想象这些场景：水清沙白、椰林树影的一个热带小岛；波涛汹涌的新英格兰岩石海岸；人满为患的度假海滩。

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A man walks through blowing snow with his dogs along a beach following a snow storm on December 27, 2010 in Westport, Connecticut.

一名男子牵着他的狗在下雪的海滩上行走，接下来2010年12月27号在康涅狄格州的西港市遭遇了雪灾。

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The people are not the only ones who flock to the beach in the lull before the storm.

暴风雨前的寂静中，人们并不是唯一成群结队到海滩上来的群体。

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The storm devastated Mississippi beach towns and left most of New Orleans flooded when the city's protective levees failed at several points.

CNN: Brown serving as consultant to FEMA

"We are urging the government and beach managers to adopt a mandatory national scheme to provide permanent public information about storm pollution on every bathing beach, " said Mr Bell.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Heavy rains 'pose bathing risk'

Two years after Katrina's storm surge swallowed 6, 000 of the 25, 000 homes and businesses along Biloxi Beach Boulevard, storm debris has been cleared to make way for high-rise hotels, condominiums, casinos and other businesses.

CNN: Tale of two cities: Biloxi and New Orleans