He paused and watched his wife and daughter snapping photographs at the railing, an orange sun sinking into the city beyond them. "we spent thirty years on what we now know was a disaster," he said.

他顿了顿，看了看他在船边栏杆旁拍照的妻子和女儿，一轮红日慢慢落入了他们身前的城市地平线，“花了三十年，我们才明白，我们被这些玩意儿害惨了，”他说。

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He paused and watched his wife and daughter snapping photographs at the railing, an orange sun sinking into the city beyond them.

他停了一下，看着在船栏杆边上照相的妻子和女儿，在她们身后，一轮橙色的夕阳正落入到城市的天际线中。

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“I thought the whole city was sinking into the earth, ” wrote a terrified English traveller.

“我以为整个城市都在陷落，”一个受到惊吓的英国游客写道。

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When they couldn't put out a print edition for two days, they used their site Nola.com to get stories and images out of the sinking city.

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He walked there in the afternoons, reciting to himself and memorising, until he could watch the sinking sun igniting the windows of the city.

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The program kicks off with environmental consultant Gerardo Pandal from Mexico City talking about the sinking pueblo and the 24-hour broadcast will end with Gore in the Big Apple urging viewers to take action.

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