President Obama plans to inspect the flooding on Monday. He will visit Memphis, Tennessee, where the Mississippi River (1)________________________
奥巴马计划周一察看洪水灾情。他将访问田纳西州的孟菲斯市。本周早些时候
The river has been setting records in places like Vicksburg in the state of Mississippi. But experts say the situation would have been far worse if not for the levees, spillways and other flood controls built along the river. These have been built since nineteen twenty-seven, when flooding killed more than one thousand people.
密西西比河已经在密西西比州维克斯堡等地区创造了历史最高水位。但专家称，如果不是沿河修建的堤坝，溢洪道和其它防洪设施，情况会更糟糕。这些防洪设施自1927年开始修建，当时洪灾造成了超过1000人丧生。
In North Vicksburg, (2)____________________.
在维克斯堡北部，
JOANN PARKS: "It is just a lot of things that have got to go. Some of the things have got to go, some of the thing I don't know where we are going to store it. It's just hard, I know there is a lot of things we are not going to be able to save."
帕克斯：“有一堆东西需要带走。有些东西需要带走，还有些东西我不知道该存放到哪。这非常困难，我知道有很多东西我们将无法保全它们了。”
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