When Katrina struck, its powerful winds rapidly shoved water from the Gulf of Mexico into Lake Pontchartrain and overflowed it.

当卡特里娜飓风来袭时，其强大的风力迅速将墨西哥湾的水推入庞恰特雷恩湖，并溢出湖面。

Like lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi also likes to flood a lot and is higher up than a significant amount of New Orleans.

和庞恰特雷恩湖一样，密西西比河也经常洪水泛滥，水位比新奥尔良的大部分地区都高。

" TH. GENOIS, Recorder." On the 8th we came to Lake Pontchartrain, by railroad, and, in due time, following the usual route, reached Charleston.

GENOIS， 记录员。 ” 8 日，我们乘铁路来到庞恰特雷恩湖， “TH.并在适当的时候， 沿着通常的路线到达查尔斯顿。

To the north is lake Pontchartrain, in the center is the Mississippi river, and to the south and east is the ever-encroaching sea water from the Gulf of Mexico.

北面是庞恰特雷恩湖，中心是密西西比河，南面和东面是墨西哥湾不断涌入的海水。

The storm surge that poured into Lake Pontchartrain breached the levee system flooding most of New Orleans catastrophic flooding spread from miles inland destroying residential neighborhoods.

涌入庞恰特雷恩湖的风暴潮冲破了堤坝系统，淹没了新奥尔良大部分地区，灾难性的洪水从数英里内陆蔓延，摧毁了居民区。