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Happening at The University of Alabama, researchers are conducting a flooding study that can help communities better researchers are working to develop a framework that creates an opportunity to forecast hurricane-driven flooding on a close to real-time basis. Researchers will pinpoint flooding hotspots and provide a responsive way for emergency responders and city leaders to better prepare for flooding from tropical cyclones. The current hurricane category scale is only wind- based and does not take flooding into account.