And in Galveston - which was in the eye of the storm - there is still no power, no operating sewage system and no functioning hospital.
而在地处“艾克”飓风中心的加尔维斯顿,至今没有恢复供电,污水排水系统瘫痪,医院也没有接收病患。
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And New York is not alone. Nearly 800 American cities rely on decrepit systems that collect storm-water run-off, industrial waste and human sewage in the same pipes.
Heavy rains from tropical storm Agatha may also have overloaded underground sewage or drainage pipes, leading to a growing cavity that eventually collapsed, Bonis speculated.