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 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille 迎战飓风卡米尔 Joseph P. Blank 约瑟夫·P·布兰克 John Koshak, Jr., knew that Hurricane Camille would be bad. Radio and television warnings had sounded throughout that Sunday, last August 17, as Camille lashed northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico. It was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshers lived. Along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, nearly 150,000 people fled inland to safer ground. But, like thousands of others in the coastal communities, john was reluctant to abandon his home unless the family -- his wife, Janis, and their seven children, aged 3 to 11 -- was clearly endangered. 小约翰·柯夏克知道飓风卡米尔将会来势凶猛。早在去年8月17号那个周日当卡米尔席卷墨西哥海湾西北方向时收音机和电视便不断地发出飓风警报。柯夏克—家所居住的地方——密西西比州的海港湾必将遭到重袭。路易斯安娜、密西西比和亚拉巴马州沿海—带的将近15万居民逃往内陆更为安全的地方。但是与沿海地区其他成千上万的居民—样约翰不愿意放弃自己的家园除非他的家人——妻子詹尼斯和七个从三岁到十一岁的孩子——生命明显受到了威胁。 Trying to reason out the best course of action, he talked with his father and mother, who had moved into the ten-room house with the Koshaks a month earlier from California. He also consulted Charles Hill, a longtime friend, who had driven from Las Vegas for a visit. 为了找到应付这场灾难的最佳方案，约翰与他的父母商量过。他们一个月前刚从加利福尼亚搬到这幢有十个房间的房子里。约翰也征求过从拉斯维加斯驱车前来拜访的老朋友查尔斯·希尔的意见。 John, 37——whose business was right there in his home ( he designed and developed educational toys and supplies, and all of Magna Products correspondence, engineering drawings and art work were there on the first floor) -- was familiar with the power of a hurricane. Four years earlier, Hurricane Betsy had demolished his former home a few miles west of Gulfport (Koshak had moved his family to a motel for the night). But that house had stood only a few feet above sea level. We’re elevated 2a feet, he told his father, and we’re a good 250 yards from the sea. The place has been here since 1915, and no hurricane has ever bothered it. Well probably be as safe here as any place else. 37岁的约翰——他的全部家业就安置在自己的家里(他设计开发教学用具和设备所有他的玛格纳公司信函、设计图纸和工艺模型都存放在一楼)。他非常了解飓风的威力。四年前，飓风贝齐就摧毁