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Hurricane Ida was no Hurricane Katrina, but it was close enough. This Hurricane struck Louisiana the hardest, making it the second most damaging hurricane in the state. It originated from a wave in the Caribbean Sea, which turned into a storm near Grand Cayman. It progressed into a hurricane while moving over Cuba, picking up intensification and making landfall on August 29th, 2021 in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Luckily, it gradually weakened over land, becoming a tropical depression on August 30th. But make no mistake, that was not the end. On September 1st, the depression formed into a post-tropical cyclone, accelerating through the northeastern part of the United States. It eventually moved out into the Atlantic the next day. Ida knocked down trees, destroyed homes, caused flooding, shut out the power, water, and lighting in homes, and even prompted the forming of a tornado outbreak. Cuba and too many states in the U.S. were hit, raising the question: Is this proof of climate change and could we have done more to prevent this, or was this simply a normal force of nature?

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虽然艾达飓风没有卡特里娜飓风那么大，但是艾达飓风还特别大。这场飓风对了路易斯安那有坏处，而且是了路易斯安那第二最大的飓风。艾达飓风源于加勒比海的巨浪，在大开曼群岛附近形成了风暴。艾达在经过古巴上空时发展成飓风，并于两千零二十一年八月二十九日在路易斯安那州的福钦港 Port Fourchon登陆。幸运的是，它在陆地上逐渐减弱，于八月三十日变成了热带低气压流。虽然不特别大，但是艾达飓风到此还没有结束。 九月一日，低气压 流形成了后期的热带气旋流，加速穿过美国东北部。可是，它最终在第二天转移到了大西洋上。艾达飓风非常不好，比方说：吹倒了树木、摧毁了房屋、造成了洪灾、损坏了房屋的供电、供水和照明、甚至引发了龙卷风的大范围爆发等等。因为古巴和美国的很多州都受到了艾达飓风的严重冲击，所以我们可以问：飓风频发现象是不是气候变化的佐证呢？还有我们是否可以采取更多的办法来防止这种灾难发生，还是这只是一种正常的自然现象呢？

Pīnyīn:

Suīrán ài dá jùfēng méiyǒu kǎtè lǐ nà jùfēng nàme dà, dànshì ài dá jùfēng hái tèbié dà. Zhè chǎng jùfēng duìle lùyìsī ān nà yǒu huàichu, érqiě shìle lùyìsī ān nà dì èr zuìdà de jùfēng. Ài dá jùfēng yuán yú jiālèbǐ hǎi de jù làng, zài dà kāi màn qúndǎo fùjìn xíngchéngle fēngbào. Ài dá zài jīngguò gǔbā shàng kòng shí fāzhǎn chéng jùfēng, bìng yú liǎng qiān líng èrshíyī nián bā yuè èrshíjiǔ rì zài lùyìsī ān nàzhōu de fú qīn gǎng Port Fourchon dēnglù. Xìngyùn de shì, tā zài lùdì shàng zhújiàn jiǎnruò, yú bā yuè sānshí rì biàn chéngle rèdài dī qìyā liú. Suīrán bù tèbié dà, dànshì ài dá jùfēng dào cǐ hái méiyǒu jiéshù. Jiǔ yuè yī rì, dī qìyā liú xíngchéngle hòuqí de rèdài qì xuàn liú, jiāsù chuānguò měiguó dōngběi bù. Kěshì, tā zuìzhōng zài dì èr tiān zhuǎnyí dàole dàxīyáng shàng. Ài dá jùfēng fēicháng bù hǎo, bǐfāng shuō: Chuī dàole shùmù, cuīhuǐle fángwū, zàochéngle hóngzāi, sǔnhuàile fángwū de gōngdiàn, gōngshuǐ hé zhàomíng, shènzhì yǐnfāle lóngjuǎnfēng de dà fànwéi bàofā děng děng. Yīnwèi gǔbā hé měiguó de hěnduō zhōudōu shòudàole ài dá jùfēng de yánzhòng chōngjí, suǒyǐ wǒmen kěyǐ wèn: Jùfēng pín fā xiànxiàng shì bùshì qìhòu biànhuà de zuǒzhèng ne? Hái yǒu wǒmen shìfǒu kěyǐ cǎiqǔ gèng duō de bànfǎ lái fángzhǐ zhè zhǒng zāinàn fāshēng, háishì zhè zhǐshì yī zhǒng zhèngcháng de zìrán xiànxiàng ne?

Edited by:  周老师 (Zhou lao shi)/ Mr. Zhou and Mia Lapiere