Two dead and more than a dozen missing after 'terrifying' flash flood hits Grand Canyon
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Hikers airlifted to safety after flash floods hit Grand Canyon trail Two people have died and 14 remain missing or unaccounted for after flash flooding swept through parts of the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service (NPS) has said.
山洪袭击大峡谷步道后，徒步旅行者被空运至安全地带 美国国家公园管理局 (NPS) 表示，山洪席卷大峡谷部分地区后，已造成 2 人死亡、14 人失踪或下落不明。
The flood hit Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday afternoon, wiping out footbridges and propelling boulders downstream.
周六下午，洪水袭击了光明天使峡谷和幻影牧场地区，冲毁了人行桥，并将巨石推向下游。
The body of a 46-year-old man was found on Sunday evening near Crystal Rapids along the Colorado River, the park service told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
公园管理局告诉 BBC 美国合作伙伴哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，周日晚上，在科罗拉多河沿岸水晶急流城附近发现了一名 46 岁男子的尸体。
Sixty-two people have so far been airlifted out of the area. "The whole thing was terrifying," said Nikki Baggs, 41, who was among those to be airlifted out of the bottom of the Grand Canyon with her two friends.
迄今为止，已有 62 人被空运出该地区。 “整件事太可怕了，”41 岁的尼基·巴格斯 (Nikki Baggs) 说，她是与两个朋友一起从大峡谷底部被空运出来的人之一。
"It was a beautiful day and then people were screaming, running," she told the BBC.
“那是美好的一天，然后人们尖叫着、奔跑着，”她告诉英国广播公司。
Baggs said she and her friends had just dropped off their belongings at a cabin in Phantom Ranch - a remote lodge at the bottom of the Grand Canyon - when they decided to venture out to enjoy the nice day.
巴格斯说，她和她的朋友们刚刚把行李放在幻影牧场（大峡谷底部的一个偏远小屋）的一间小屋里，然后决定出去享受美好的一天。
Before they knew it, a flood of water was sweeping through the area. As soon as the rain hit, Baggs and her friends headed toward higher ground, where they sat at a picnic table, before rangers yelled to them to run again to a different ledge, where they waited with others for hours before they were evacuated at around 21:30 local time (04:30 GMT).
在他们意识到之前，洪水席卷了整个地区。 雨一落下，巴格斯和她的朋友们就朝地势较高的地方走去，她们坐在野餐桌旁，然后护林员向她们喊叫，让她们再次跑到另一个窗台上，她们在那里和其他人一起等了几个小时，然后在当地时间 21:30 左右（格林威治标准时间 04:30）被疏散。
Baggs said she and her two friends had been looking forward to a steak dinner at Phantom Ranch - but were now just grateful to be alive thanks to a swift response from park rangers.
巴格斯说，她和她的两个朋友一直期待着在幻影牧场吃牛排晚餐，但现在很庆幸自己还活着，多亏了公园管理员的迅速反应。
"It was a really uniquely co-ordinated effort," she said.
“这确实是一次非常独特的协调努力，”她说。
"That's what made us feel safe about all of it in an unsafe situation." Baggs said she and her friends watched from higher ground as bridges were swept away.
“这就是让我们在不安全的情况下感到安全的原因。” 巴格斯说，她和她的朋友们在地势较高的地方看着桥梁被冲走。
Nikki Baggs posed for this photo just before the rain hit In a statement on Monday, the NPS said search and rescue efforts continue.
妮基·巴格斯 (Nikki Baggs) 在下雨前摆好姿势拍这张照片 NPS 在周一的一份声明中表示，搜救工作仍在继续。
The recent rains in the Grand Canyon area, and more widely in south-western parts of the US, are due to monsoonal showers.
最近大峡谷地区以及美国西南部地区的降雨是由季风阵雨造成的。
A change in wind direction at this time of year pulls warm, moist air northward from the Gulf of California and the tropical Pacific, triggering storms over mountainous terrain.
每年这个时候风向的变化会将温暖潮湿的空气从加利福尼亚湾和热带太平洋吹向北方，在山区引发风暴。
The storms are difficult to pinpoint in forecasts and so can strike without warning.
风暴很难在预报中精确定位，因此可能会在毫无预警的情况下突然袭来。
But because the ground is usually very dry, any heavy downpours lead to dangerous flash flooding and frequent lightning which increases the threat of wildfires.
但由于地面通常非常干燥，任何大雨都会导致危险的山洪和频繁的闪电，从而增加野火的威胁。
Flood watches from the National Weather Service cover large parts of Arizona, as well as New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. There are lots of showers currently showing on the weather radar and these downpours will continue during Monday.
国家气象局的洪水监测覆盖了亚利桑那州的大部分地区，以及新墨西哥州、犹他州和科罗拉多州。 目前天气雷达显示有大量阵雨，这些倾盆大雨将在周一持续。
The threat of flooding is something that will remain for many more weeks. The North American monsoon season usually runs to the end of September.
洪水的威胁将持续数周。 北美季风季节通常持续到九月底。
Joey Martin told the BBC that he was at the Grand Canyon working on a transcanyon pipeline project when dense, grey clouds rolled in. He described rain "coming down so hard and so thick that you couldn't see the Grand Canyon walls".
乔伊·马丁告诉英国广播公司，他当时正在大峡谷从事跨峡谷管道项目，这时浓密的灰色云层滚滚而来。 他形容雨“下得那么大，那么厚，你看不到大峡谷的墙壁”。
"You couldn't see anything," Martin said.
“你什么也看不见，”马丁说。
Visibility returned roughly 30 minutes later, he said.
他说，大约 30 分钟后，能见度恢复。
That's when he saw the creek begin to rise.
就在那时，他看到小溪开始上涨。
It eventually turned into a torrent of mud and debris that slammed into a nearby bridge connecting Martin's work site to his living quarters. "From where we were standing, it looked to be about 15ft tall," he said. "That wall of debris ended up taking out the bridge right there."
最终，它变成了一股泥浆和碎片，撞上了附近一座连接马丁工作地点和居住区的桥梁。 “从我们站的地方看，它大约有 15 英尺高，”他说。 “那堵残骸墙最终摧毁了那里的桥梁。”
Martin said he and roughly 16 other workers were there and coordinated with NPS once it became clear conditions were unsafe. They gathered hikers in the area and headed for higher ground.
马丁说，一旦发现情况明显不安全，他和大约 16 名其他工人就在那里并与 NPS 进行协调。 他们聚集了该地区的徒步旅行者并前往地势较高的地方。
"Never been in any kind of vicinity of something like that to that caliber," he said. "Staying calm was hard, but everybody kind of played a part in keeping people calm and keeping people, you know, focused on just getting away from the danger."
他说：“从来没有接近过那种级别的东西。” “保持冷静很难，但每个人都在让人们保持冷静并让人们专注于远离危险方面发挥了作用。”
The NPS initially said it was looking for information about 15 people who were thought to be missing or unaccounted for. It reported that flooding had caused significant damage in some areas and that trails in the area have been closed.
NPS 最初表示正在寻找 15 名被认为失踪或下落不明的人的信息。 报道称，洪水对一些地区造成了严重破坏，该地区的步道已关闭。
Overnight guest lodgings in the South Rim will be stopped from Monday until further notice as the floods have caused "extensive damage" to the national park's water infrastructure.
由于洪水对国家公园的供水基础设施造成“广泛破坏”，南缘的过夜住宿将从周一开始停止，直至另行通知。
On Monday, the NPS said that preliminary assessments indicate about 40% of the Transcanyon Waterline, which delivers water for visitors and approximately 2,500 residents, was damaged or destroyed in the flood.
周一，NPS 表示，初步评估显示，为游客和约 2,500 名居民供水的跨峡谷水线约有 40% 在洪水中受损或毁坏。
The NPS asked anyone who knew of hikers or backpackers who were in the inner canyon along the Bright Angel Creek corridor on Saturday to get in touch.
NPS 要求任何认识周六在 Bright Angel Creek 走廊沿线的内峡谷徒步旅行者或背包客的人与我们联系。
The Grand Canyon National Park posted this image on Facebook while warning footbridges had been destroyed by the flooding The NPS also warned that more thunderstorms and heavy rainfall were forecast for Monday, which could lead to "additional flash flooding, debris flows, rockfall and changing trail and river conditions".
大峡谷国家公园在 Facebook 上发布了这张图片，同时警告人行天桥已被洪水摧毁 NPS还警告称，预计周一将出现更多雷暴和强降雨，这可能导致“额外的山洪、泥石流、落石以及步道和河流状况的变化”。
The Grand Canyon is one of the most popular national parks in the US, with about five million people visiting each year.
大峡谷是美国最受欢迎的国家公园之一，每年约有 500 万人参观。
The Bright Angel trail is its most popular hike.
光明天使步道是最受欢迎的徒步路线。
US hikes national park fees for foreigners to put 'American families first' 'Heart-breaking': Locals and visitors devastated by loss of Grand Canyon Lodge
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