FloodWatch is a real-time flood monitoring and safe-route navigation platform.We leverage live community reporting and hazard mapping to help people stay inform
So FloodWatch was built to translate raw flood data — rainfall models, gauge readings, road-level risk — into one plain answer: is your street or your route at risk, right now. No jargon, no guessing.
The gap we kept running into: flooding doesn't happen city-wide. It happens street by street, crossing by crossing. floodwatch App notifications gives you every bit of information before you commute.
Most weather apps are built for conventional weather forecast. Ours is built for that moment when you're deciding whether to move your car or go back . That's a different problem — and it needed a different app.
A team of us at Genesys Tech Hub sat down during Build Season with one question: why do people still find out their street is flooding after the water's already in their driveway?