つかえる英会話Daily / Travel

P: Residents of New Orleans are struggling to deal with the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina today, with an estimated 80
percent of the region flooded and authorities struggling to
evacuate those still remaining in the worst struck areas. Our
correspondent Rachel Stone is on the scene. Rachel, could you
describe the situation there for us?

R: Well Phil, residents have described the situation here as being
like that of a Third World country. Water continues to rise in
the streets and the governor has announced that everyone remaining
in town is to be evacuated as soon as possible.

P: How are the evacuation efforts coming along, Rachel?

R: Well, rescue teams have been working around the clock to get to
those people still stranded, but as you can appreciate Phil, the
sheer scale of this disaster is really stretching their resources
and there are still countless numbers of people stranded on
rooftops and bridges throughout the city. The region’s hospitals
are low on power and struggling to find room for the growing number
of patients and up to 20,000 citizens have taken refuge in the
city’s Superdome, with more to be transferred from other rescue
centres over the next few hours.

P: Thank you Rachel. We’ll check in with you again later on in the
bulletin. Take care out there.

R: Thank you Phil.