1、Excerpt from Supply Chain Resilience and the 2017 Hurricane Season|1 Fuel and Food Resupplying Metro Miami On Thursday,August 31,2017 after a full week of rain,Houstons skies finally cleared.Over 39 inches of rainmore than a typical yearhad fallen.Floodwaters began to drain.Remnants of Harvey churne
2、d slowly northeast.Meanwhile west of Cape Verde,Hurricane Irma was finishing her first full day at hurricane strength,achieving Category 3(sustained winds over 111 mph)just before midnight.Conditions favored further strengthening.Spaghetti models were widely splattered,but Miami was certainly in pla
3、y.The Miami metropolitan area is the effective terminus of a dense economic corridor that begins at Boston,1,500 miles north.Interstate 95 is the spine of this system,with average daily traffic exceeding 72,000 vehicles and sometimes surging to more than 300,000.Average daily truck traffic is over 1
4、0,000 and daily truck-counts that are triple the average are not uncommon.1 The five million residents of metropolitan Miami(“Metro Miami”)live near the end of a 400-plus-mile-long peninsula,clustered inside a 30-mile-wide strip between the ocean and the Florida Everglades.The city of Miami has a po
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