Case study
Florida flood events move fast. Official alerts cover counties — not specific roads. Here's what the Floodi monitoring layer shows from the first raindrop to resolution, and what that means for residents, property operators, and county operations teams.
Storm scenario
A fast-moving tropical squall drops 3–4 inches of rain in under an hour over Miramar and Pembroke Pines. The National Weather Service upgrades a Flood Watch to a Flash Flood Warning within 30 minutes. Here's what Floodi shows — and what it would mean for each type of user watching in real time.
NWS issues Flash Flood Watch for Broward County. Floodi picks up the alert within 15 minutes of publication and overlays the warning polygon on the live map.
Residents in Miramar and Pembroke Pines begin submitting street-level flood reports. Each report is geolocated, photo-verified by AI, and visible on the map within seconds.
Report clustering shows University Drive corridor flooding from Pines Blvd south to Stirling Road. Road-impact flags identify three segments as impassable. A property management team with portfolio access sees the pattern across six of their communities simultaneously.
Reports falling inside the active Flash Flood Warning polygon receive the NWS-confirmed badge, giving both residents and operations teams a second signal that conditions match federal-level alerts.
Community members begin marking roads as reopened. Cleared reports transition to 'likely cleared' status. The timestamped report log is ready to export for after-action review.
The same storm event surfaces differently depending on who's watching — and what they need to do with the information.
During a king tide event in Miami Beach
Residents see which streets are already flooded before they start their commute — without waiting for a news broadcast.
During a South Florida afternoon thunderstorm
A portfolio manager with 40 communities sees a live map showing which entrances are flooded and which communities have active resident reports — without fielding 40 phone calls.
During a multi-county NWS flood warning
County operations staff can view street-level community reports alongside NWS alert polygons and USGS gauge readings in one map — before satellite data or WebEOC entries confirm conditions.
Floodi is a supplemental situational awareness tool. It does not replace 911, official emergency alerts, evacuation orders, NWS warnings, or law enforcement instructions. Community reports may be delayed, inaccurate, or missing. Never drive through flooded roads. Never enter dangerous water to submit a report.
Every submitted photo is analyzed by Gemini Vision before it appears publicly — confirming it shows actual flood conditions and classifying severity (minor/moderate/severe).
Other signed-in users can confirm or dispute any community report. Three dispute votes downgrade a report automatically; 3+ confirmations elevate confidence.
If a report coordinates fall inside an active NWS flood warning area, it receives the NWS-confirmed badge — a second federal data signal on that street-level observation.
Accounts are capped at 5 reports/hour (database-enforced). Any user can flag a report; 3 unique flags hide it pending admin review.
GPS metadata and EXIF data are stripped from all uploaded photos on ingest — protecting reporter privacy while preserving the image itself.
The public API and map expose only public-safe fields: location, severity, age, verification context. Reporter contact details and user IDs are never in the public feed.
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