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Officials urge residents to (re)subscribe to flood gauges and highlight mapping tool
Summary
Staff encouraged residents to subscribe or re-subscribe to local flood gauges and demonstrated a mapping product (referred to in the transcript as 'Soleslaw') that shows high-watermarks and inundation forecasts tied to gauge levels.
Officials urged residents to sign up or re-subscribe to local flood gauge alerts and walked through a mapping tool intended to show expected inundation at different gauge heights.
The Agency official said residents who previously subscribed may need to resubscribe because of sign-in changes, and that new options (Google, Facebook, Apple, and a government employee sign-in) are now available. "So if you have subscribed to any of your final words, I scribe, and I know that when I get a text from the gauge, it says it's 5 feet," the Agency official said, urging residents to re-enroll to ensure timely alerts.
Staff also demonstrated a flood-mapping tool cited in the transcript as 'Soleslaw' that layers historic storm impacts and gauge readings to forecast what will flood at specific water heights; officials said they will mark high-watermarks and submit updated data to North Carolina Emergency Management to improve local mapping accuracy.
