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There were three problems that could have caused Noah to doubt. First, Noah had never seen rain, because prior to the Flood, God irrigated the earth from the ground up.

这会给挪亚带来三个难题：第一，挪亚从来没有看过下雨，因为在洪水之先，神藉地上的雾气滋润大地。

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It is because of this that the highest ground in New Orleans, counter-intuitively, is along the riverfront, one of the only areas of town not to flood after Hurricane Katrina.

在新奥尔良这是沿岸最高的地带，也是唯一一个在卡特里娜过后地方没有被洪水侵蚀的地方。

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"Houses in our region used to have stilts a few meters above the ground in order to allow flood to stay there,"

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Historically, such settlements have clung to the higher ground on the flood plain.

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Flood ground, wind blows -- I mean we have water, we have people, and we have plenty of land down here.

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Dealerships tend to be located on high ground, away from flood zones, but their inventories of cars can be exposed to downed power lines, or wind or hail damage.

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