暴雪警报

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Don listens to the weather report every morning. 唐每天早上听天气预报。

Today, the forecaster warns of six inches of snow by evening, 今天，预报员警告说，到晚上会有六英寸的雪，

which in the city could mean a snow emergency. 这在城市里可能意味着雪情紧急状态。

Don learned what that meant the hard way. 唐以惨痛的方式明白了那意味着什么。

Last December, after a snowy night, he parked on the street in front of his house. 去年十二月，在一个下雪的夜晚之后，他把车停在他家门前的街上。

The next morning, he bundled up to scrape the ice off his car, 第二天早上，他穿得严严实实地去刮车上的冰，

but the car was gone. 但车不见了。

Someone stole my car, he cried. “有人偷了我的车，” 他喊道。

A neighbor walked over and pointed to a red sign on the street. Snow emergency route. 一个邻居走过来，指着街上一个红色的牌子。“雪情紧急路线。”

It wasn't stolen, Don. It was towed. “它没被偷，唐。” “它被拖走了。”

When a snow emergency is declared, “当宣布雪情紧急状态时，

you have to move your car off these routes, or it gets towed. 你必须把你的车从” “这些路线上移开，否则它就会被拖走。”

Don paid a fine of $118 to get his car back. 唐支付了118美元的罚款才把车取回来。

An expensive lesson, but he never ignored a snow report again. 一个昂贵的教训，但他再也没有忽视过雪情预报。

Sometimes the city isn't out to get you. 有时候，市政府并不是要针对你。

It's just trying to plow the road. 它只是想清理道路。