Catastrophic Flooding Hits the Midwest

Catastrophic Flooding Hits the Midwest (Part 1)

And we have a lot of breaking news to get to this morning and I know you’ll be talking about the massive flooding from the Midwest, all the way down to Texas.// It's a big story of the day. You know it is and I wanted to start because it is a serious one. Stationary front, and come with me because I'll show you what's happening here, has set up over the Northern Plains, parts of the Great Lakes.// And that's where we see training thunderstorms, we call it, they just ride along there. Rain after rain after rain. Minneapolis itself has had in 24 hours what you would get in six weeks of rain.// But this is also happening in Texas and that's where the stunning pictures begin this morning.//

the Midwest 미국 중서부

flooding 홍수

stationary front 정체 전선

 ex> A front extending east and west is stationary over the country.

 cf> seasonal rain front: 장마전선

set up 세우다, 자리 잡다 

the Great Lakes 오대호[the ~] 미국과 캐나다 국경의 5대호

ride (물, 공중에) 뜨다, (파도를) 타다

stunning 놀라운

 ex> He suffered a stunning defeat in the election.

// stun 기절, 실신시키다

Catastrophic Flooding Hits the Midwest (Part 2)

Rain, falling at three inches per hour in Texas, whipped by nearly seventy mile-per-hour winds. Floods, inducing mudslides in Minnesota.// A-hundred-yard chunk of hill, giving way at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, before crashing into the Mississippi River, forcing evacuations and prompting roads to close.// “Just a big mudslide coming down.” Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. This morning it's got a few more.// A state of emergency in 35 counties after four inches of rain fell just in Minneapolis on Thursday, the most ever recorded on a single day in June.//

whip 채찍질하다 

 ex> The waves were being whipped by 50 mile an hour winds.

 ex> Her hair whipped around her face in the wind.

induce 초래하다, 유도하다, 설득하다, 유도하다

mudslide 토사 유출, 산사태 때 걷잡을 수 없이 흘러내리는 진흙더미

chunk of hill 산등성이 일부 

give way 부러지다, 무너지다, 항복하다

 ex> The pillars gave way and a section of the roof collapsed.

prompt 촉발하다, 유도하다

state of emergency 비상 사태, 긴급 사태