And when that debris was cleared there was a big concern that the wall would breech, would flood lower Manhattan.

当这些碎片被清理干净后，人们非常担心这堵墙会倒向曼哈顿下城区。

This will include flood walls, highway and railroad gates and a new  drainage system with pump stations.

这将包括防洪墙、高速公路和铁路闸门以及带泵站的新排水系统。

The city is also installing bigger pumps, upgrading the storm water system and also using concrete and metal to extend a downtown flood wall.

该市还在安装更大的水泵，升级雨水系统，并使用混凝土和金属来延长市中心的防洪墙。

In 2011, a tsunami surpassed the flood wall protecting Japan's Fukushima Power Plant, causing a nuclear disaster in addition to claiming over 18,000 lives.

2011 年的海啸超越了保护日本福岛电厂的防洪墙，引起核灾难，造成超过 18000人丧生。

But to many - it's still not enough, and they've proposed alternatives like a larger flood wall  and flood-proofing existing structures.

但对许多人来说，这仍然不够，他们已经提出了替代方案，如更大的防洪墙和防洪现有结构。

I mean, what happens when two cities next to each other have to figure out where to put flood walls, and one of them can afford a company with proprietary data and one can't?

西蒙：我的意思是，当两个相邻的城市必须弄清楚在哪里放置防洪墙，而其中一个城市能够负担得起一家拥有专有数据的公司而另一个城市却不能时，会发生什么？

Within hours after Hurricane Katrina came ashore, a wall of water primarily from the lake filled city canals and then broke through flood walls, rushing into the Lower Ninth Ward and nearby communities, wiping houses right off their foundations.

卡特里娜飓风登陆后数小时内，主要来自湖泊的水墙填满了城市运河，然后冲破防洪墙，冲入下九区和附近社区，将房屋从地基上抹去。