What does this flood mean for my own home, neighborhood, and community?
As part of our planning grant, we conducted five workshops with different community stakeholders, including citizens, flood officials, media representatives, and realtors and developers.
The goal of the workshops was to gather insight and feedback from the community on how technologies and informational tools can help the most in communicating flood risk and meaningfully engaging different stakeholders in flood mitigation efforts, both as individuals and as a community.
We developed as set of preliminary tools that communicate key impacts of floods and interactively demonstrated them during the workshops
Main Themes
- What feature do you find most useful in these preliminary tools
- What features or capabilities are missing
- Would you continue to use these tools and for what purposes
- How do you envision these, or similar tools could improve the communication of existing or new flood risk or mitigation information
- What are the barriers that you face in explaining flood risk to different stakeholders in your community
Transportation Impacts Tool
Impact on drivability and access to evacuation and emergency facilities
Structural Damage Tool
Structural damage for individual buildings and aggregated at census block scale
Discoveries
Expanded Reach
Expanding our project to explicitly include communication with a goal of reaching the general public that may not have been looking for or aware of flood risk information.
New Strategy
“War gaming” individual and community flood response to help people and communities build better intuition regarding flood risk based on the best localized models.
Proper Channels
Work with local media outlets to develop compelling ways of building community-level awareness of flood implications using novel hydroinformatic tools delivered via existing channels (print, TV, internet, and social media).
