虽然休斯敦并未像加尔维斯顿那样受到风暴的正面袭击，但“埃克”仍旧摧毁了该市的抽水系统，其破坏程度足以对整个卫生保健系统造成威胁。

While Houston did not take the brunt of the storm the way Galveston did, Ike did knock out the city's water pumping systems, and that was sufficient to threaten the whole health-care system.

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居民返回德州海岸的加尔维斯顿，亲眼目睹到飓风艾克所造成的毁坏惨状。

Residents returned to Galveston , on the Texas coast, and saw for themselves the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Ike.

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而在地处“艾克”飓风中心的加尔维斯顿，至今没有恢复供电，污水排水系统瘫痪，医院也没有接收病患。

And in Galveston - which was in the eye of the storm - there is still no power, no operating sewage system and no functioning hospital.

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