Photos and Video: Last Night's Supermoon Caused Flooding in Miami Beach

Did you all enjoy last night's super moon eclipse? It was pretty wasn't it? A real once in generation astrological event? Yeah, well, residents on Miami Beach woke up this morning to find their streets flooded thank to the extreme high tides brought on by a super moon. The tides...

By Kyle Munzenrieder

September 28, 2015

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Did you all enjoy last night's supermoon eclipse? It was pretty, wasn't it? A real once-in-a-generation astrological event? Yeah, well residents of Miami Beach woke up this morning to find their streets flooded thanks to the extremely high tide brought on by that supermoon.

The tide began rising before the sun even came up, and Miami Beach officials closed the southbound lanes of Indian Creek Drive between 40th and 29th streets. The roads will also be closed at peak high-tide times later tonight at 10, tomorrow (at 10:12 a.m. and 10:28 p.m.), and Wednesday (11:03 a.m. and 11:18 p.m.).

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine said the city's plan to fight sea-level rise with new pumps will someday help alleviate these kinds of tidal floods.

"As part of our five-year, $400 million storm-water pump program, over the last two years, we have been implementing an aggressive plan to mitigate flooding in our city," Levine said in a statement about the flooding. "In the past year, we have added six additional permanent storm-water pump stations, 25 back-flow preventers, and elevated streets in the West Avenue and Sunset Harbour neighborhoods. We have worked closely with FDOT to install pumps on Alton Road. We are happy to report that these once-flooded areas have remained dry during these historic high tides.

"Unfortunately, there are areas of our city which have not been fortified yet or are state-owned roads (Collins Avenue, Indian Creek Drive, etc.). Please rest assured that these areas are a part of our overall plan, and we will not stop until our entire city is dry during these peak tidal periods."

Pictures of the flooding have, uh, flooded social media.

Residents in @MiamiBeach411 are forced to improvise. @WPLGLocal10 pic.twitter.com/gFhlla2MWz
— Michael Seiden (@SeidenLocal10) September 28, 2015

#Supermoon not just pretty. Moon/tides + tstorms + #sealevelrise = flooding in Miami… #climatechange = real pic.twitter.com/8hG77KGVGI
— Jud Partin (@junglecave) September 28, 2015

Indian Creek Drive and 28th street. Miami Beach. @wsvn #flooding #LunarEclipse pic.twitter.com/MSRHf2rgpr
— Ann Keil (@ann_keil) September 28, 2015

@NWSMiami @MiamiBeachOUTLK @joeflech pic.twitter.com/91i8AoNKg3
— Carla Probus (@cprobus) September 24, 2015

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