From: Mayor Philip Levine <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 1:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Severe Rainfall from Tropical Storm Emily <=able width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style=3D"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;"> <https://imgssl.c=nstantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif> Having trouble viewing this email? Click here <http://campaign.r20.constantcontact=com/render?m=1113178529415&ca=8b917380-0b48-4e3a-b0d5-c6a417ef356a> <https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif> <http://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?a=1=13178529415&r=3&c=6a506840-7d35-11e3-bd97- d4ae5275bla5&d=11285188728=7&ch=6b0dc4d0-7d35-11e3-bde5-d4ae5275bla5&ca=8b917380-0b48-4e3a-b0d5- c=a417ef356a&o=https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/ui/images1/s.gif> <http://img.con=tantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif> chttp://img.constantcontact.com/letter=fimages/sys/S.gif> <http://img.con=tantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif> <http://img.con=tantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif> Dear Friends and Neighbors, This afternoon, remnants of Tropical Storm Emily caused heavy rai=s throughout South Florida, leading to the national weather service to iss=e flood advisories for our city. This led to Miami Beach experiencing reco=d rainfall that caused many of our streets and neighborhoods to flood. &nb=p;This was further exacerbated by power outages citywide, that caused drai=age infrastructure to be temporarily offline. The city continues to work to mitigate flooding by upgr=ding the stormwater system that drains the city's streets during rain and =idal events. However, severe events can cause temporary flooding that impa=ts us all. The new system is designed to handle 7.5 inches of rainfa=l with a peak intensity of just under 3 inches per hour. Today, our city s=w peak rainfall intensities of greater than 7 inches per hour. This =s more than double the new design capacity. The new stor=water systems have only been i