Extreme US weather 美國(guó)遭遇極端惡劣天氣

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美國(guó)連日來(lái)不斷遭遇惡劣天氣襲擊。東海岸遭遇極寒暴風(fēng)雪天氣，已有20多個(gè)州的1億美國(guó)人受到影響。與此同時(shí)，美國(guó)西海岸加州正在經(jīng)歷有記錄以來(lái)最嚴(yán)重的一次旱災(zāi)。請(qǐng)聽(tīng) Beth McLeod 為 BBC 發(fā)來(lái)的報(bào)道:

After burying the American East Coast in snow all the way from Georgia up to Maine, the storm has moved north to Canada. It has left an icy trail of destruction in its wake; hundreds of thousands of homes are still without power, mostly in southern states like the Carolinas, which are used to milder winter weather.

The extreme conditions are being blamed for at least 25 deaths, mostly in traffic accidents on roads that are slick with ice. Thirty people were injured in a multi-car pileup in Pennsylvania and more than 14,000 flights have been cancelled this week so far.

President Obama has left the snow in Washington for the West Coast, where he has been talking about a very different type of extreme weather; California is in the midst of its worst drought in a hundred years. He promised federal money to help deal with what he called a "very challenging situation"