Rain pelted down nonstop until past midnight, dumping 553 mm of water on the city in nine hours-400 mm in the first three hours alone. And this in a city whose flood defenses are designed to handle just 70 mm of rainfall.
七月十一日下午五時左右，高雄地區下起傾盆大雨，迄至午夜雨勢才轉弱。短短九小時內，總降雨量高達五百五十三公釐，其中四百公釐更集中在前三小時內，而高雄市的防洪設計容量不過區區七十多公釐！