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Yeah, I needed help. If anybody out there could help me, please do.
是的，我需要帮助。如果有谁能帮我，请帮忙。
70 year old Theophilus Charles lost everything when hurricane Ida ripped through Louisiana on Sunday.
周日，飓风艾达席卷路易斯安那州，70岁的西奥菲勒斯·查尔斯失去了一切。
Everything is gone.
什么都没了。
My walls, my roof, my ceiling, all my clothes, furniture appliances, everything.
我的墙壁、屋顶、天花板，我所有的衣服、家具、电器，一切。
Charles who lives in Houma Louisiana says he went through all previous major hurricanes and thought he would stay and ride this one out.
查尔斯住在路易斯安那州的霍马市，他说他经历过以前所有的大飓风，他认为他会留下来度过这个难关。
They just started falling apart blowing away on me.
他们就在我头顶上倒塌、被吹跑。
I ain't got a dry spot in the house.
我屋里没有一块干的地方。
All I got is a backpack with a few clothes in it.
我只有一个背包，里面有几件衣服。
At Crown Point, a small city in Louisiana, rescuers used boats and helicopters Monday to reach people trapped by flood waters.
周一，在路易斯安那州的小城Crown Point，救援人员使用船只和直升机营救被洪水困住的人们。
We were in Crown Point, it's pretty bad.
我们当时就在Crown Point，情况很糟糕。
A lot of water.
很多水。
For 13 years, I haven't seen this high.
13年来，我没见过这么高的水位。
New Orleans residents on Monday were grateful that Ida was not like hurricane Katrina which devastated the city in 2005.
周一，新奥尔良的居民很庆幸“艾达”不像2005年摧毁这座城市的卡特里娜飓风那么强烈。
It was pretty intense. A lot of wicked winds.
飓风非常强烈。刮着猛烈的大风。
Luckily no flooding. That's the main difference between this storm and Katrina.
幸运的是没有造成洪水。这是这次风暴和卡特里娜飓风的主要区别。
Like Katrina we got about like two feet of water in here that just stayed for about a week or two.
卡特里娜飓风刮过的时候，我们在这里大约有两英尺深的水，持续大约一到两周。
But this was just a lot of wind damage and no power.
但这次只是有很多大风造成的破坏，还有停电。
More than one million customers were left without power.
100多万用户断电。
Louisiana's governor John Bel Edwards said the state's levees heavily revamped since Katrina worked better this time around.
路易斯安那州州长约翰·贝尔·爱德华兹表示，自从卡特里娜飓风袭击以来，本州的防洪堤已经进行了重大改造，这次的效果更好了。
But he said the storm still inflicted tremendous damage and warned people against returning in the short term.
但是他说，风暴仍然造成了巨大的损失，并警告人们短期内不要返回。
If you have evacuated, now is not the time to return unless and until your parish informs you that it's okay to do so.
如果你已经撤离，现在还不是返回的时候，除非你的教区通知你可以返回了。
Businesses aren't open. Stores aren't open. Schools aren't open.
商家停业。商店关门了。学校也停课了。
Edwards said for now residents need to put as little demand as possible on the water systems and the electric grid.
爱德华兹说，目前居民们需要尽量减少对供水系统和电网的需求。
