It is currently Friday, kind of a later start to the day. I woke up like around 7.30, 7.45. And as you saw, I'm like the clips at the beginning of the vlog. I had my morning coffee. I love the days where I can just enjoy my mornings and take it slow. There is nothing that I hate more than having to set an alarm for super, super early and then get up and immediately just have to get ready and rush out the door. And I'm just really not a morning person. Like I honestly, if I can naturally wake up early, that's great, I love that. But I just don't feel like my brain operates at full capacity before like 10 a.m. I'm just a natural night owl. And it was just always really hard for me, like in school having to get up so early and be at school by 7 a.m. And I knew in my adult life, once I had my career, it was a big goal of mine to have flexibility in my schedule so that I didn't have to be forced to wake up super early. So I'm really proud of myself for achieving that and being able to make that happen, at least for the time being. So yeah, like I was saying, I got to enjoy my nice, peaceful, slow morning and then I watered my plants, took my dog out for a walk and then I went to the gym in my apartment and got a workout in and it felt really good to just get that out of the way. I kind of have a lot to do today and it's gonna be a really late work day. So I knew that if I just waited to go work out later in the day, I would end up probably never getting around to it. So I wanted to just do that first. Today is going to be mostly a YouTube work day and it's gonna be all computer work. So normally on the days when I'm just working on my computer, I will not bother doing my makeup. I will usually just work from my bed or on the couch and I am just in bummy clothes looking like a mess. But I'm actually going and teaching a blowout class with one of my coworkers later this evening. So I figured, you know, I wanna get myself together, look presentable for that. And if I'm gonna be doing my makeup at some point today, I may as well do it earlier. So that way I can take advantage of it and like have makeup on for longer. And I'm filming this video. So why not have some makeup on? But yeah, I just thought it would be fun to share what a work day in my life can look like because of what I do, not every day looks the same, not every week looks the same, which is what I love personally. I get really bored if my routine is exactly the same week after week. I like having variety in my week. I feel like to me it just keeps life interesting. Okay, I'm ready. Here is my little office. I don't have a designated office space. I just live in a one bedroom apartment and it just isn't worth it for me and doesn't really make sense to like rent out an office space somewhere. My apartment does have a clubhouse with some office space. So if I ever really feel like I'm just having a hard time focusing and I just wanna like get out of the apartment and just be somewhere else, I can go use that space or I could go to a coffee shop or something like that. But I feel like for the most part, I'm totally content and I'm the most comfortable just working from my couch, honestly. I got another client booked for next weekend. That is exciting. I am a very visual kind of person. So in order to keep my life organized because it can be kind of a lot. You know, I have personal life things, my own personal appointments. And then I also work at the salon doing like my hourly front desk work. I also take hair clients. And then I have all of my online stuff, all the social media stuff and that also branches out into multiple different things. So it can be kind of a lot. And I feel like if I don't have everything super organized and written down, I just get really overwhelmed and then I forget things and it can be very stressful. So I have just a regular blank notebook. This is just kind of my brain dump. So if I have certain like content ideas, video scripts, like for sit down videos, like, okay, what kind of points do I want to hit? What do I want to talk about? And then I have a physical planner and then I have my highlighters so that I can color coordinate everything. And then I also have a Google calendar where I get a little bit more specific. So on here, I have everything that's in the physical planner, but then I also have what I'm gonna be filming when, when I'm gonna be posting each video, like what is gonna be due when. Oh, and then I also have my calendar on Vagaro that has all of my hair appointments, like any clients that I have. And I know that that might sound kind of crazy and like way too much to some people, but I don't know, this is just how my brain works. This is what works best for me. I had a really productive week this week, so I don't have too many like pressing things, no super tight deadlines. I'm pretty good on everything and I'm pretty caught up, which is nice, but I'm gonna check my email. That's something that I will always do, like first thing so I can stay on top of it. I will have a pretty good amount of unwritten emails every single morning. They can get really overwhelming and then you don't wanna miss something that's important. I'll get emails from brands, from clients, requesting appointments. Okay, so got all the calendars updated, got hair clients scheduled that requested appointments, handled all of my unread emails and that I also was responding to YouTube comments on my most recent video. Now I am going to edit a video. I currently have three videos on my computer that are ready to be edited. Two of them are unsponsored videos. One of them does have a sponsorship in it, so I'm going to edit the sponsored one first because when you have a sponsorship in a video, you have to submit it to the brand first before you publish it live for everyone else to see. They have to review it and make sure that it is good with them and that you said everything right and you included what you needed to include. And then if there are some revisions that they want you to make, you have to go back, either reshoot or re-edit things, send it back to them again. So it can be kind of a drawn out process. So because it's gonna take extra time before I can actually post it, I wanna edit this first, that way I can submit it and I can just get that out of the way. Since we're talking about brands and sponsored content, I guess I'll just share a little bit more about that the way that works because there are multiple ways that you make money as a content creator or an influencer. I would say though, the biggest way where we all get our biggest paychecks are through sponsored content. So that's when a brand is paying you to showcase their product or their service or whatever. It really just varies depending on your audience as the influencer, like how many views you get, what your demographics are and how big the brand you're working with is. But generally for a channel my size, for just like a 60 second product mention in a video, I could make anywhere from like several hundred to several thousands of dollars. And the way that you get offered these brand deals is as a content creator, you have your separate email address for all of your business inquiries and whatnot and you just make sure that you have that email address public on all of your stuff. So brands will usually just email me there and some brands have their own in-house marketing. So someone from the actual brand's marketing department could reach out, send an email and say, like, hey, we wanna work with you. But a lot of brands will work with a separate marketing agency. So that marketing agency will kind of be the middleman and they will reach out to the influencers and be like, hey, one of our clients is looking for social media marketing. You know, this is what they want. Are you available? Are you interested?  So oftentimes it's that middleman marketing agency that I am in communication with and that's where I'll get a lot of my sponsorship offers. Which is nice because as a content creator these days, you kind of rely on the sponsorships but you wanna make sure that you're being really picky and meticulous about which ones you take because you don't wanna lose your audience's trust. You want to stay authentic. You wanna be promoting things that you really genuinely use and really genuinely like and believe in. Sometimes I also will like send a proposal to a brand. If there's like a particular product that I am interested in buying or trying and I see that they work with other influencers, sometimes I'll reach out and just see like, hey, maybe I can get a brand deal out of this but why not, right? It's something I'm interested in anyway. So yeah, that's how that works. You'll get in correspondence with the brand or whoever's handling the marketing, whether they reach out to you or you reach out to them and then they'll usually propose the terms. This is what we're looking for. This is how long we want the mention to be. This is when we want it by and this is how much we are willing to pay you or sometimes they'll ask you like, what are your rates? And then you can negotiate that. And then once you have agreed to all of the terms and all the deliverables and whatnot, then they'll send you the product. Usually they'll have not like an actual script but they'll have just like a general list of like, these are some things that you can mention, you know, in your own words. These are things that we absolutely do not want you to mention or these are certain terms that like you have to avoid for legal reasons or whatever.  And they'll be like, okay, this is what you need to like copy and paste in the description of the video. Once you have the content completed, you send it over. The brand will approve it or send it back for revisions.  It's usually not right away. It usually will be like a month or two later. I'm gonna start editing this video. It's a vlog. It's not a crazy long vlog. It's a shorter one. So I'm gonna guess probably like, maybe two to four hours altogether. The super long vlogs that are like 45 minutes to an hour long, those can easily take me like 10 hours to edit. But yeah, I'm gonna work on this for a bit. And I'm probably gonna heat up some lunch because I'm starting to get kind of hungry. I have leftovers. I got Thai food yesterday. Lunch break time. And I'm still wearing the same thing underneath but I started to get kind of cold. So I put on a robe. Drunken noodles with chicken. So while that's heating up, let's talk about the other ways that you can make money doing social media. So when you do YouTube specifically, you also make money through ad revenue. So whenever you're watching a video and an ad plays, those brands have to pay in order to have those ads featured. So the creator of the video will then get a very small percentage of the money from those ads. And even if you have like YouTube red and you don't get any ads on the videos you watch, we get a percentage like YouTube will still pay us a percentage from the YouTube red views as well. But that can be really unpredictable. Videos will randomly get demonetized all the time or you might get like a really low ad revenue payment. It goes based off of what they called CPM which is cost per mil, which basically means how much money you get paid per every thousand views you get on a particular video. This varies video to video. And there's a little bit of a pattern kind of, but not really like I can't ever know what the CPM on a video that I'm posting is going to be. I might have an idea of like the range, but you have no control over it. And you do continue getting paid for views even on old videos. So even if I don't post a single video for an entire month, I will still get paid from the views on videos that I already have up on my channel. Ad revenue usually is a lot better like around the holidays, but you know, it can kind of fluctuate. It's not like the most consistent or the most reliable thing, but that is another like big way we make money. Another way is through affiliate marketing, affiliate links.  So you click my link that I'm providing to you which makes it even easier because you don't even have to go and search for the product. Here's the link and it costs exactly the same thing. There's no increase in the price, but because you use my specific affiliate link, I now will get a commission from the cost of that product. So I really like affiliate marketing. I feel like it's a win-win for everybody really because a lot of the times with the affiliate links, the brands will also provide some type of incentive.  And then I also get some kickback and get some commission from that too. It is now a little bit after four o'clock. That's a dog bone, by the way, not poop. But I just finished editing my video and I just watched it all the way through. So now we're going to export it. By the way, I use Final Cut Pro to edit all my videos with. So yeah, I'm just gonna wait for this video to export. It doesn't usually take very long and then I'm gonna upload it. I also need a thumbnail for the video, but like I mentioned, I was very productive earlier in the week. So I already have the thumbnail made. So that is it there. This is the website that I use to make my thumbnails, Pick Monkey. And then after you have the thumbnail, you gotta figure out what the title is gonna be. You wanna make sure that it's like eye catching and draws people in and does a good job of summarizing what the video's about and you wanna kinda think about like, what are some good keywords that you can include in that? That might be like searchable. And then after that, you have to do the video description, which depending on the video can either be like really quick and easy or it can be a huge pain and take forever. So there's multiple steps that go into actually creating the content and getting it up online for everybody to watch. The whole process, it takes several hours just for one video that might only be like 15, 20 minutes long. I think I need to make myself another coffee. I have that blowout class later today.  So that should be fun. It's just gonna be me and one of my other coworkers. I don't need to be there till 7.30 and then we're gonna start the class at eight. So I still have a good amount of time before I need to leave, but I need to just gather up a few things and bringing a mannequin head and like extra curling irons, extra brushes, blow dryers, that kind of stuff. My hair, I don't know if you can tell but it's getting kind of frizzy. I left the balcony door open while I was working and it's super humid outside so we got some frizz going on. But I decided since I'm gonna do this anyway, let me record myself on my phone so that way I can get some content out of it and make an Instagram reel. Hey, Gail. I have two extension boards. Okay. Hopefully it will be covered with that. The lady that's coordinating everything, I originally had talked to her on the phone and she sounded super nice and like easy going. I guess I'll see you at 7.30. Okay, sounds good. See you then. Okay, it is the quarter to seven. I was editing that Instagram reel but I realized I needed to hurry up mannequin head.  That is in the car but I said I would bring a few extra things just in case. So I'm bringing my extra curling iron, foam rollers. Okay, think about all the extra stuff I needed to grab. Everything else is in my kit so that should be good.  We had like a whole list of stuff we were gonna bring with us. I am gonna try to get some vlog footage but you never know how people react to being filmed so no promises but I'll try my best and I'll let you know how it goes when I get back. Just got home a little while ago, took off my makeup, the class was a lot of fun. I tried to get some clips but it was a little tricky because I was trying to do stuff and teach and I kept forgetting to pick up my phone to record so I literally only got those two little clips.  I'm gonna wrap up this vlog here. I hope that you guys enjoyed seeing a little bit of what I do for work. If you're not already subscribed, don't forget to subscribe before you go. That way you don't miss out on any of my future videos and I will see you really soon in my next one. Bye.


Let me just introduce myself, and I think we have a small enough crowd that we can spend a few minutes just going around the room and introducing ourselves and then who you are with if you work for anybody in particular. So my name is Ranjan Muthaya, I'm a senior professional engineer with the stormwater management division in the Transportation Public Works, and you're going to hear from me quite a bit, so I'll just leave it at that. In case you're wondering where my accent is, Mr. Cube is wondering where I grew up, I grew up in Sri Lanka, and there's quite a bit of mineralogy there, so good to catch up with some mineral stuff. So let's start maybe over here, and then just go around the room. My name is Chris Johnson, I'm with Saving, also represent also Berry Street Initiative, we've been very involved over the last 20 years with the city on things, and so this is a natural topic of that, plus her family business. Berry Street, I have a block from the center of the major flooding area. I'm Cedar Lee, and I'm a social scientist with the Casa Rego project. I'm Jessica Reece, I'm a general assistant, I go to the UNC. I'm a waitin' house-er, I'm from the east side of Fort Worth, in the eastern county division. I don't have all these things, and the prices of it will set us if you do, but I'm in the community and have a good initial. I'm Bob Carl, I'm with the National Research and Forward and Hydrology Department. I'm Frank Bugano, I'm with Atkins-Rubble, supporting the city's project. I'm a director for a number of years retired, I'm a Cal support worker. I'm a ambassador to Cal, also with Atkins, supporting the city as a consultant on this project. I'm Richard, I'm with Fort Worth Inventor School District. I make a phone call from each of you. I'm studying water, and water research. William Westwood, chair of the University of Michigan. I'm doing this in the Carter's Bible by the resident of Fort Worth, kind of in the south, oriented by all the places that we live in. I'm Joshua, I'm here with the Texas Water Development Board. I'm taking a number of contract management duties. I'm Ivan Ortiz, I'm the state's flood grants coordinator, and I'll work with Ron John to get this all kicked off, and hand it off to Josh tonight. So that's a great segue to acknowledge the Water Development Board, and thank you so much. This was a initiative, my understanding anyway, through the Governor's Initiative of Dedicated Grants through a flood protection planning grant following tragic events in the central Texas from the 2015 floods that bare people lost their lives. So I appreciate the Water Development Board grant. So first of all, thank you for attending, and what I'd like to do is I'd like to go through some background information, kind of get up to, get you all up to speed in terms of what's transpired in the flood warning part of our stormwater management division, talk about what we are currently doing, and then what we plan on doing with the grant, and the midpoint of this grant presentation will kind of get you all up to speed in terms of where we are in the progress, and in the final meeting, we'll wrap it up in terms of what we have done and completed as part of this grant. And so I'll go through some of the background. So those residents that have been in Fort Worth are familiar with the history of the flooding. Prior to the levees, there were floods in the 20s, 1940s, and I think that's a classical picture of the Montgomery Plaza building. And so that all led to the creation of the levee system in the 50s. And then subsequent to that, lots of the flooding has been kind of very localized, urban creek level flooding, and then the city created the stormwater utility in 2006, following some events that took place in 2004. And you've got a picture here from Berry Street. Mr. Cube's here. I think that persons like wandering can water do that, levitate vehicles like that. Indeed, they can. Here's some more recent events. I think some of these events actually cost much severe flooding in the south-central Texas area, San Antonio, that area. And this is some pictures in 2015. So, you know, the point here being that Fort Worth is not a stranger to flooding. We've had fatalities in Fort Worth as well. And some of these fatalities are related to vehicular traffic primarily. And you see all the kinds of different things that have led to some of these fatalities. You can see all the driver-driver-driver kind of things. So I guess one of the take-home messages from this workshop would be that people get into their vehicles and lots of the fatalities take place while people are in their vehicles. I want to kind of just go through, and this is a busy slide, apologize, but just kind of give you an idea of what the city, primarily the stormwater division people do prior to some of these severe events. In case like a rough timeline, seven days prior to a severe event, and I've drawn the severe event as that box, and then following the severe event, you don't have to read through the slides, but, you know, we do get information from our Office of Emergency Management folk, and they get fed information from the National Weather Service, Co-of Engineers, the Water District, and Bob Carlson here. I appreciate you being here, Bob. So, you know, we get information fed in that kind of gives us forewarning of some of the severity of these events, the flood maintenance crews, run routes, they clean storm drains in some of the areas that are likely to experience flooding, and then you can see a couple of days, like a day before the kind of the intensity of the response intensifies for a severe flood. Barricades are pre-placed, you know, additional personnel are called in. People go into a 24-hour operational mode and get ready for the event. And then following the event also, there is quite a bit of activity in terms of follow-up, you know, stormwater crews remove the barricades that they have pre-placed at some of these low water crossings. We, on the planning side, evaluate how some of our storm drains infrastructure performed, and, you know, depending on the severity, you know, there may have been additional folk involved outside the city. And then if there is something like a presidential declaration declared for the event as took place, I believe in the Thanksgiving flood, you know, we try to recuperate some of the city's cost for the response. So here's an example of maintenance crews responding to a flood event with barricades. I'll point with the mouse over here. So you can see the flash system that we have at these low water crossings. And so the barricades are placed to prevent people from entering these low water crossing sites. I'm going to spend a little bit more time on these low water crossing sites because that's kind of our starting point for the flood warning system that we have and that we plan on expanding into. So one of the ways that even, you know, the TFMA has promoted the Texas Floodplain Management Association promoted is to create more flood awareness to turn around, don't drown, kind of educational signage. However, that doesn't work all the time, and this is actually one of my colleagues' presentation where he talks about the 13 luckiest people in Fort Worth. And here's an example of people driving through kind of the low water crossings. In this case, it wasn't barricaded, but one of the tendencies of people is to follow the vehicle in front. And this is an example of that. Another one is people just sometimes don't even observe the barricades. And so in this case, this was the fifth luckiest driver. The first luckiest driver, too, that we've got. So in terms of the analysis that was done on a citywide basis following some of these major events, the historical events where people also tragically lost their lives, is that we evaluated these low water crossings based on these nine criteria that you see listed over here, ranging from the depth of overflow, past incidences where there were fatalities, the number of high water rescues, all the way through to D to a length. And 285 of these low water crossings were evaluated. And as a result, these low water crossings were prioritized. And I'm going to go through a little bit of the history of those low water crossings. Initially, following three fatalities, three test locations were identified for these low water crossings, and then there was additional 15 flashes from the 285 were prioritized, and then the top three got the high water flashes first, and then went down the list, and then 2004-bond additional 15 flashes were placed. And then you can see immediately, after we did that, there were additional fatalities that drove the importance of this effort. And then in 2010 through 2014, we received funding from the Texas Department of Transportation through what's called the LAPAFA program to install 38 additional these low water flashes. So we have currently 52, sometimes one or two just kind of get out of operation and have to be repaired. So 52 of these low water crossings across the city. And you see the distribution of those low water crossings in this map roughly broken out by timeline in terms of the distribution of this flashing network. Now let me just back up just a little bit. These flashes also have rain gauges on them. And this one doesn't show that, but these 52 crossings have, 39 of those low water crossings also have rain gauges associated with them. And the rainfall from those rain gauges are broadcast almost live through what's called the alert system to a base station on top, Burnett Plaza. And so we get live rainfall feeds. That's what you see on the left side over here is the rainfall distribution of the gaging sites. And in terms of a regional picture, you can see what the rain gauge distribution looks like. That's kind of what Bob Carl at the National Weather Service sees in terms of the regional picture of what they get in terms of rain gauge measurements. Now why are these rain gauge measurements important? The weather service, for example, uses it for the river forecasting for the large river basins like Mary's Creek, Trinity River Basin, things like that. Again, the National Weather Service uses these rain gauges to calibrate the radar measurements to get predictions on how much rainfall it's going to fall. And then the CASA team that's also represented here uses it to provide more fine resolution rainfall estimates and rainfall radar signatures. So this rainfall network is very important for kind of the flood warning system that we are going to build off of the existing network. And I'll talk about what we plan on doing and a little bit of the technical details of what we plan on doing with this rain gauge network based off of the flash system that was initially installed from the 2000, actually from the mid-1990s period. So what does this high water warning system look like where we have rain gauges? And hopefully you can see that. Can you all see that slide or should I turn the lights off a little bit more? Maybe just a little bit more. Okay. Maybe on this side. There, there you go. All right, so these high water system locations consist of a pressure transducer, the current one consists of a pressure transducer that measures the water levels. Either roadside, we have very few of them that are actually measuring the water level within the street right away. And then we also have the majority of water level sensors that measure the water level at the creek that have the low water street crossings. And these pressure transducers trigger the flashes when the water rises above street level, typically about half foot, or is the rate of rise of the water. It measures how quickly the water is rising to kind of say, hey, the water is rising rapidly enough that it's going to flood, might as well turn the flashes off. So you use this boat. And the system that communicates all that information is called alert. Even though I don't mention it here, let me mention it now. The alert, the high water warning system also has rain gauges. You see one of the rain gauges sitting above that master control station right there. And the water level information is broadcast to our first responders so they know when these triggers are being triggered. Okay, here's kind of a schematic of that system again. So we talked about the pressure transducers. We saw a picture of this master controller over here which has an antenna that communicates the information received from the pressure transducers as well as the rain gauge. So there you see a picture of a typical rain gauge. It's a tipping bucket system that goes back and forth every 400th of an inch. And every time that trigger the tipping bucket tips, it sends off the information that's received ultimately at the base station. So all of this data that's collected locally over here is collected by the master controller and then this master controller uses radio frequencies. And that's what this alert system is. If you have a radio, actually, you can tune to it and all you'll hear is just... Not interesting stuff. That just transmits those tipping bucket and the pressure transducers triggers to a receiving station.  And then there is equipment inside burner plaza that downlinks the radio frequency and that's what you see this complicated equipment over here that takes that radio frequency, cleans it up with what's called cavity filters so that takes that noisy frequency, cleans it up. So your radio stations have the same thing. They have these cavity filters that are the ones that receive information anyway. And then all that information then is electronically processed into zeros and ones and then transmitted via your Internet cable. It's an Ethernet cable. Your Internet cable to a server which has software operating in it that understands that alert communication. So that's pretty much the communication system we have right now. And here's an example of the pressure transducer that sits at a Colbert wing wall and just measures the water level. So that's what measures the water level. There's a sensor here that translates the water level to a pressure of due to water into an electronic signal. You see any questions on this? So if there's any specific questions, just stop me. I'm hoping that we'll have about 15, 20 minutes just to have an open discussion on where you'll see whether you know, get feedback on your thoughts on where are we going to go. So the software, yes. Pardon? Okay, yeah. So those locations were based on the 285, you know, low water crossings across the city that were inventoried based on a ranking system. And we prioritized that. And what we have right now are 52 of those locations have these sensors on them. Okay, so the software that we currently use is called DataWise and you see version 7.5 on your left and the more recent, you know, more kind of web-enabled interface on the right. And this is stuff that we see internally. The software, one of the limitations of the software is that it'll have a difficult time kind of converting that information that you see over there and then kind of putting it out for the public to see. Yeah. So when the Rengage collects, Rengage collects rainfall data, right, it's not always at the regular time interval, right. If you want to do something using this data putting your hydrological model, it's better to just have the regular time interval, right. Does that software do that data processing for you? Or just basically there are post-processing needs to be done after you collect data from the DataWise software? Right. So let me just go through what you just mentioned. So the alert system we currently have, and this is a very important point, the alert system that we currently have, it's what's called an Aloha system. Whenever those triggers take place, that information gets broadcast. So if the antenna at Bernard Plaza is busy receiving information from another site, let's say there are 52 of those sites, right. So site 30, for example, is broadcasting that information and it's busy trying to get the information from site 50. It's not going to listen to site 30 because it's busy with site 50. It just drops that. And it'll go back and it'll pull back to that site, site 30, and then whenever it's ready to receive site 30, it'll pick up the cumulative signature. So whatever the history of the, you know, whatever was collected up to the five minutes, it'll pick it up then. So the time each was pretty regular? I would say if you have a polling, you have a polling time that, you know, there's a polling time and I think that's five minutes. It'll pull around and get that information. Bob, did you want to add anything? I was just going to say, it's only regular when it's raining. When it's not raining, a true alert system, when it's not raining unless you've got other equipment like other Texas motor speedway where they have one of their weather stations, that broadcasts all the time to the temperature wind, all that. So we're getting there every 15 minutes. A true alert system will not, if it's just like a rain gauge or something like the transducer, will maybe send the message twice a day saying, hey, I'm still out here working and that's it. It will not start sending regular messages until it starts raining, or the water starts going up to the pressure stream. Other than that, you're only getting a couple of messages a day from the equipment out there. Yeah, one thing to, and that's important. You know, when it rains, you've got to understand that the system is very busy. You know, there's all these stations just sending all the information. If the current system that we have is that if the base station over there at Burner Plaza can't listen to that particular broadcast from a particular site, it'll just wait for it to, you know, pick it up later when it goes and listens to it. So there's quite a bit of data collision problems that it has to deal with with this alert system. Okay? And we'll talk about how we're going to take care of that problem. Excuse me, what's I mean? Yes. But as far as the information on the platform, I would think that's the most immediate need obviously is to warn the people that are actually driving. Yes. That goes off immediately. Yes, that's right. Yeah. That doesn't have any, you know, issues with the communication. It goes off immediately. Now, you know, the, those, those flashes also need to be diagnosed, tested in the field and so on. So there's actually a two way communication from, you can, so you can tell this controller to communicate to the flasher. And the flasher can also communicate back to this controller. You see this little antenna? So there's communication back and forth between the flash and the controller. But good question. Yeah, using the pressure transducers at the crossings also has the rain gauges at the same location. Correct. Yeah. Not, not exactly the same, like exact physical GPS location, maybe within 30, 40 feet, you know, of the, yeah. It would be on the master controller. See, you see it? It would be typically on the master controller. Right, right on top. Right. And this master controller that you want to protect because you don't want it to flood then just watch downstream. So you want to keep this at a secure location. But I guess my question is going back to, I guess gentlemen here that asked about how you decide to, to locate the, the rain gauges. Because obviously it makes sense to have the pressure to measure the depth. Right. So the pressure can go off to low water crossings. But should the rain gauges necessarily have to be located at the same location as opposed to measuring rainfall somewhere else? Yeah. Let me go to... To sound, you know, to... Right. It's two different things. Yeah. And that is the convenience of having the communication equipment already by the low water crossing. We do have very few purely dedicated rain stations by themselves. There are five or six of those, just purely dedicated weather stations. The convenience factor here is that we already installed the communication equipment associated with the low water crossing. So we measure rain gauge and rain data at those footprints. So it was a convenient... Primer. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I would characterize it as such. It's very convenient that we can maintain at one location for both devices as well. And I think that also explains what was the rationale actually for the city to actually install water gauges right now. And if you see it on the map, what it was, I think convenience was the main reason. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And that's one of the limitations we... You know, you have it co-locating like this. And you guys are already solving my problem, by the way, because the plan is to expand our rain gauges and determine those rain gauges based on the rain needs than, you know, the convenience factor. Yes. Early on when the system was being planned, when Fort Worth was the first putting this in, they came out and made that with both guys. And what we wanted to do was show them where there are other real-time rain gauges on the city. So if they were going to put in just a rain gauge, it wasn't going to be 200 feet from another one that might already be there. So it was hopefully going to spread the wealth out and try to get more spacing or better spacing for the rain gauges network. Yeah. So that was taken into account in the initial run of the system back in the mid-2000s. Yeah. So it's good that we're spending some time. So I might skip through some of the... So this is not waste of time discussing this. So if you look at the regional level, obviously storms don't start in the boundary of Fort Worth and then just leave the boundary of Fort Worth. They have a regional perspective. So you can see some of the holes in our rain gauging network out south-southwest, quite a bit west, just where all the storms come from. Right? From this side. In fact, the storm that's brewing is out west and it's coming this way, right? We've got quite a bit of coverage out east because we have a good network with the neighboring cities, maybe some more, you know, holes to fill up in the north and the northwest. I have a couple questions about the stages of the rain gauges.  For example, I don't think there's a bridge. So under these public structures, you probably have a couple covering your landfall accurately. First one around, do you actually have a consideration of ensuring that these stages are functioning correctly? Because the primary problem in the U.S. is that there are gauges, not one in 10. So there are a lot of information coming from gauges just not very useful. Right. The second question I have is that Iran is planned to hook up these gauges on the GCP network so that it's transmitted to a lot of people so that a service would be a bit captured in gauges. Yeah, and that's the plan. Any data we collect will be made available in real time. Right now, we make it available to Bob Carlsharp and he, what's the chef encodes it, right, and sends it to his folk. But the plans are to make all the data available in real time. I see. So what is the latency of the network itself? So say I will cover this in a year or now. Yeah. So how much time it takes before the gauges are done? Yeah, I would say 5 to 10 minutes. 5 to 10 minutes. Yeah. I don't know the, I think it's 5 minutes. I could be wrong, but not more than 10 minutes. So does it actually have dependence on the gauges locations? Yeah, you know, those, the alert system itself pulls around and gets its stuff within 5 minutes. So if it drops the station, it will go back and pick it up within 5 minutes. Oh yeah, your previous question, right, in terms of the, let's look at that picture. It's not the most ideal locations in some cases because, you know, the, you want to have a 45 degree cone clearance around your gauge. And, you know, the, my understanding is that the new requirements for the weather service have 30 foot, you know, height at which you measure the rainfall. And some of these sites, I wouldn't say all of them, some of these sites don't meet that criteria. Okay, so I think we've covered quite a bit. So I think you're all getting a picture of what we have. And so this kind of back and forth question is awesome because we can kind of resolve a lot of, you know, the issues that we have had to deal with. I think the point that I was trying to make here is that these flashes that you see not only have to, you know, come on in terms of being triggered properly, but also have to be placed properly until the approaching traffic doesn't get stuck, you know, after they drive in. So some of these, in this particular case, you can see that the street has got two flashes, but we also have cases where there are multiple flashes spread around dealing with the approach into those low water sites. And let me add this, too, is that in places where we think these low water crossings are pretty well positioned in terms of capturing rainfall, our plans are to add additional rain gauges at these sites. So we have two gauges that are capturing rainfall.  You know, it's got a vector component where it takes a direction. And then if you measure, you know, two buckets next to each other, you might not get the same rain. So that's the idea here, is to kind of have some redundancy to be able to check it. Okay, so I went through the alert protocol and let me also mention since SIDA is here that, you know, and kind of, it leads to this second phase of I think this flood warning system, is that, you know, people do observe barricading their studies on all the limited of, you know, observing drivers is that most of the time when they see these flashes, you know, they tend to drive through them anyway. You know, they don't turn around and don't drive. So the effectiveness is to be fully proven yet, even though that when you drive, you see it. And here are all the kind of reasons why they found these drivers going through these flasher sites. Don't tell me if you thought of one of those. Talk to me after. So I guess the prelude to the flood warning system is that let's make the information available to our drivers and our homeowners and our residents so that they can make informed decisions before they get into the car and get into trouble. So that kind of leads to this flood warning system, flood warning system would have all these components that we talked about, you know, the high water warning system, but it's also going to have a kind of an informational component whereby we'd make the information available, not only the high water crossings, but also the rainfall, rainfall intensities, the radar signatures, and make it available so that the residents can make an informed decision. We're not going to tell them what to do, but we'll make that information available and that's the overall thrust of this grant. And the grant will run through December of 2017. So what's the overall purpose? So we're going to develop a flood warning system and we're going to make sure that our measurements, that we're actually measuring in the field are reliable, that the fall signatures are minimized as much as possible and then we're going to disseminate the data. So we have a total grant of 630 plus thousand, the city is cost sharing 60% of that and the water development board is through the flood protection grant monies going to match it at 250,000, roughly, roughly orders of magnitude. And we have selected a consulting company to help us along with this and some of them are here. The folks from distinct designs are the experts in the communication systems. They have experience in emergency management and Telos is part of that expertise and then Atkins which involves Ramesh and Frank are here will provide support not only in terms of the communication placement of gauges and things like that but also provide leadership on the flood response planning side of this grant. So just kind of briefly outline what the components are. So we have seen elements of this. So we will capture the rainfall, make sure that our water level sensors are working, when they're supposed to be working, check the accuracy of that. We will improve the telemetry. We are using alert right now that we talked about. We're going to move to something called alert 2. That's a lot more cleaner in terms of the way things communicate. We are going to keep inventory of our data, make the data more available to the public, make more data and more intelligent data available to our emergency managers and we'll also broadcast that information to our partner agencies like the weather service. So here's all the different folks over here. Let me also actually, since Dericka is here and the county emergency guys, I'm going to pick on you guys, just acknowledge their participation in this effort too. So in terms of the grant dollars, we think we have to finalize that the consultants came on board relatively recently because of the approval process. But we think we can, with our budget, install up to 20 new rain gauges at the existing sites. We will look at installing up to 10 additional water level sensors to check for the pressure-canned user system. We think we can install up to 20 new rain gauge sites. We will keep the existing alert system operational. It's very tricky to just turn off the switch into a new communication. So we'll keep our existing system working on alert. The new system, we'll move it to a more better alert to communication system. And then when things have been sorted out, we'll switch onto full-time alert too. We'll upgrade our flood warning system, flood warning software, and then we'll also develop a flood response plan. So let me go through alert two. Essentially, there's lots of technical stuff in here, but the overall benefit of this alert two is that it uses GPS clocks to time stamp the signatures. The alert signature does not have any time stamp. So because you have a GPS clock telling the base station when it collected the data, you can hold on to the data longer and actually get more accurate information. So here we talked about the rain gauges. So we'll be looking at getting good coverage, particularly in areas where we have those missing holes in our rain gauge network. And we have preliminarily identified this from a previous consultant, but the new consultant will reevaluate this. So these triangular sites were identified as areas where we could install new rain gauges, but certainly this will be reexamined by a new consulting team in light of the alert two network. Okay, and then we'll also be looking at, instead of just relying on one type of water level sensor, we'll also be looking at a different type of sensor to measure the water level. This is what's called a bubbler system, and it has a, this is actually a CO2 cylinder. So it uses the pressure experienced by a CO2 bubble pushed through a tube to measure the water level. Okay, so this is kind of the box where the equipment is, but the equipment measures stuff sent down from a tube that could be 30, 40 feet away. So you don't want this located next to places where floods take place. It's just a different way of measuring the water level, and that kind of will provide validity against something a lot less complicated and maybe even less accurate than this bubbler system. But it doesn't mean that we are abandoning the pressure transfer, it's just a way of checking how our water level measurements are working. So the flood warning software itself, we're going to replace our data-wise system. We've issued a bid for that already. We've received three bids, and those are being evaluated right now, and the software will be evaluated to ensure that it works with not only alert, but also the alert to the system that time stamps the signatures collected in the field, and we'll make that, we want to make sure that it's got a strong public-facing component that could be delivered through that software. The flood response plan, obviously all these are detailed, and at our midpoint of meeting we'll provide more information, but the flood response plan will have three main components. It's going to have a planning phase. What is your inventory of how you respond to flood emergencies? What do you do during floods? Kind of that seven-day timeline that I showed you. You'll document and identify missing gaps in terms of how the city responds to these flood emergencies and identify best practices. And then you'll also have a post-flood component to this flood response plan. Here's the project timeline. It's pretty tight, but we think we can get it done. So we've already secured the software, and we're going through bid. From starting around May-June period, we think we can get the software implemented through December. The equipment installation, we are getting started on it, and that will run through December. And then the flood response plan, which Frank and Ramesh will be leading, will get started once they have all the information in hand and met with staff and so on starting around May. And I've just marked out where we think we can have our public meetings. We don't want to just come out here and have nothing to report. So we want to have something to report and come around June, July. Perhaps into July we'd have a second public meeting. All of you all will be here then, right? Okay, thanks. Wait a minute. Let's spend more time on this then. So that's kind of the project. I want to kind of move on to how the flood warning system fits within everything else we are doing. And some of our folks here from the stakeholder group meeting would kind of be able to relate to this. But ongoing with all the other activities that we do is there's this long-term strategic planning that the stormwater division is undertaking, looking at a 10-year horizon and evaluating how best to position ourselves and certainly the flood warning world is an integral part to that. And if you want information on that, that's available at this website. And the timeline for that is through January, 2018. And if you'd like to participate in that, there is a public meeting scheduled May 16th, 6 to 8 p.m. And I assume that will be here, right? Okay. Kind of related to this flood warning, not funded through this grant, but I wanted to talk about this anyway because this is an ongoing activity that kind of connects up with the flood warning. We are working with the CASA team to evaluate a handheld cell phone application for eventual distribution to the residents so that you can not only get the more refined CASA radar, so this is not your next rad radar. This is a network of very localized radar footprints. Some of the UTA folks are here too. They're working on this. There's a CASA radar located on top of the UTA library. But you can see that it's kind of those black circles there that measure all the radar within that small footprint. And they all network together through the Internet. And two or three radars can track a storm through the neighborhood. It gives you very localized information. And so you can see all that information on a cell phone app and you can specify where you are and it will give you a warning of, hey, a tornado is expected your way. It's three miles away. Take power. Or it's three minutes away. So you can specify time or distance. And our field crews will be evaluating this. Police and fire will be using this and evaluating it, testing it out and helping the CASA people before they release it to the public. And the other thing is the CASA team is also looking for voluntary participants that want to participate in terms of the flood response. And if you would like to participate, please talk to CEDA or spread the word out. Essentially this kind of asks the people that went through the flood water and ask them, hey, why did you cross the water? That kind of thing. Okay, so I was going to spend a few minutes going through what a potential publicly facing website could look like. And if my clicks work properly, I can show you what some of the other neighboring cities, not neighbor, some of the other cities in Texas have done, Harris and the flood control district in Harris County has done. And then the water development board also has plans, if I understand it right, Josh and Yvonne, to collect all the data that's collected across the state and kind of create a statewide flood awareness website. So let's see whether this thing works. Yeah, so let that work. So here's what they have developed in Harris County. And you can see it's not raining there, so everything's zero. But they make all that rainfall data that's collected in real time available to the public. And you can query individual gauges. Let's see, click on one of those for more information. That's nothing to report, but you can see, gives you a timestamp and they have actually moved to the alert two system. And they have only, you know, signature drops out of one every 10,000. So out of 10,000 signatures that get through from all these sites, they drop maybe one, maybe one. So that's how much of an improvement they've had with the alert two system. Harris County has a flood warning system here. The data actually can be exported. And if that's the system from the divorce, the data actually also can be exported, downloaded for public use or researched for process. Right. Yeah, we do have that now in kind of, but not in a, you know, not in an easily accessible form. So part of the mandate here is to make all the data available for folks like you to download in real time. Yeah. And run your model and do all your fancy stuff. So let me go through the next one. And this is a city of Austin and neighboring cities. So that's what they have. And they actually cover a significant area, not just Harris County, you know, which has just County. The city of Austin takes care of the neighboring cities. And you can see it's essentially maps on the dark, you know, green, good, you know, no, no major problems, red. You might want to think about going around there or you might want to click on it, you know, and find out what's going on. It's closed. I don't know whether it's flood related right now, but anyway, it makes you aware of what's going on. And somewhere along the way, you can actually right click and say, hey, I want to just subscribe myself through texting to only, you know, some fixed number of sites. And then whenever those get triggered, either rainfall or low water crossing, you get a text.  I messed that up. So let me go to the Board Development Board website. It's texasflood.org. So you can kind of see what the Water Development Board itself sponsors working on. Did I get that right? It's without the S, Texas Flood. Oh, okay. You got two down below that. Yeah, texasflood.net. That's a perfect segue. Yeah, I know. Okay, so let's see the Texas Flood Viewer. There we go. They actually have, you know, network of, let's see if I can move it out of the way. They can click on the bottom right there. I have read the blue bar. But you see the, okay, I'm sorry. All right, there we go. So, you know, we can, right now I would say the, most of the data, correctly if I'm wrong, comes from like the main stems of reverbs and things like that, right? So all our data essentially is going here too. All right. So I think I have done all the talking that I wanted to.  We have provided you forms to answer if you don't want to speak up. We just fine. And just kind of, let's discuss these things. And the first question is, what do you commonly use to receive severe storm and flooding information? And I kind of put out there in kind of brackets what, how we plan on using this data. Can I get, you know, your information from severe flood? Maybe I should speak up. Honestly, for me, I use a weather bug. How many of you use weather bug? There you go. We've got some weather bugs out there. So it's a cell phone app. You know, I don't, I mean, although I have a NOAA radio at home, I don't rely on that honestly. TV, when severe storm hits, I actually watch TV and I'm on my computer looking at the casa radar at the same time. If you don't want to speak up, that's okay. Just, if you write and provide comments, we'd certainly be interested. You know, I think the purpose here is to kind of make sure that when we make our data available that we reach out to the right people. You know, I know that some of the social media companies like Twitter, I know is very involved. I'm talking about the CEO of the company going to these flood warning meetings. Twitter guy, the CEO going to flood warning, he's like, what? But they are involved in this stuff. Okay, I'll just keep going through and then maybe, you know, some of these questions will come up. So, which cell phone app, and we talked about weather bug, or website do you use to receive, this is a little bit more kind of internet centric, website do you use to receive weather information? All right. The radar. One you got to pay for, but it's like $3.99. That's the only app I have ever paid for. And it saved, well, it didn't save bank but it was pretty close to it. We were going back to Michigan at Christmas because I saw the tornado warning and we pulled over and let the storm cross the road about five miles ahead of us. But I was using that app and you could see the book and everything in it. That's awesome. So, yeah. But it does, the nice thing about it is you can look at the small total preset, you can look at the one-hour estimates, so that data from the dual-pole radar network is available there too. Are you glad with that? Yeah, I was curious about the weather. Let's go to number three. What, you first, you pay attention to the, like the National Weather Service storm warnings watches and then if you do or don't either way, what specific actions do you take? That's a good one. How many of you, okay, let me go to question number four. What city resources, city or Fort Worth resources do you use to get and or prepare either storm and output storms to prepare and cope with severe storms or flooding? How many of you are signed up to Nikso? Nikso? Okay, that's interesting. Yeah, let me put that as a public broadcast it out as a public announcement. Just go to Nikso and you will get the emergency, our Office of Emergency Management broadcast warnings alerts, things like that related to severe storms and flooding. You want to spell that for us? Yeah, NIX LE, it's just a cell phone app. Our city forces already have but it's not very like, in one case actually I was sleeping, I got it at two in the morning, I worked not on that street but they actually named the street in which there was severe storms like, get out of your bed and get to your closet at two in the morning. Luckily it was this is the area, so I hope this is safe. I noticed on the number four you gave off the storm warning so you're making it just flooding Yeah, I wanted to just expand that anyway in terms of storm.  I have a sense of that so I usually hear about it from them and we turn on the TV. Now the problem that we realized during a lot of these dish TV snow that during the storm you cut out your TV. So I really think having a cell phone app and all that so that you can take into the during the storm, especially take into the place for wreckage I kind of to be honest with you, I just sort of count on my wife she loves it. I think women are much more into the furniture and who is it, Delkis? Yeah, Pete. Yeah. So, but I do think it's good to stay in the age of like, you're saying especially if you're traveling, you know, to have have access to storm the public does need to know more about it. Right. The EAS over your phones did work at that storm that I was in in Missouri the phone went off, both of our phones went off even though I was not here we were, you know, 700 miles away and when the Duke office put the warning out, my phone went off so it worked as it's supposed to. Mm-hmm. It does seem like I could sell phone notices, you know. Yeah. Yeah.  Some of the intense wind events. It measures wind to the the Casa radar. Just a question now, Casa system is a completely different system, isn't it? Then from what the city is now trying to implement? This would be a part of their effort but, you know, we would feed our information through our grant so that's where the connection is you know, actually right now, Eric who is the software guy he's working on subsuming the rainfall and also highlighting the catchments, the watersheds across the city and, hey, it's raining real intense in this watershed and it's kind of highlighting those watershed areas. So there'd be a mutual exchange of information between what Casa is doing and what we're doing. Yeah, and we have continued you know, we've had collaboration with them and we'll continue on but, you know, the you know, we'll see and what I'm saying is that you know, the software side of it is mainly to make sure that we collect the information good information you know, have some system it could be dots on the map to get that information out to the public and then you know, we would try to leverage ongoing activities like this to kind of get the information out through apps like this. I guess another related question to that is you know, for the for the lay person there's cost and then there's the stuff that the city is doing and for the lay person you know, there's like five different apps it's like going to the supermarket which one what's right for me how are we going to help people make that decision? Yeah. It's going to be very important. Yeah, Chris, go ahead. Let me try to sort of fill in a couple of apps here Ron's on the point and Ramessha's point we're very good. We've got source data from agents we've got source data from X-ray and web service we've got source data from the CASA radar which is a separate source data okay, so what we're trying to do at the city is we want to be part of the information data collection team and we want to be able to make that information available to anybody who can use it as best we can and then one of the reasons why Ron's asking these questions is because we want to get an idea of what resonates with people when we start putting information out where should we be talking about putting it what do people want to use do you want to use a cell phone do you want to look at your TV do you want to go to the weather service do you want to go somewhere else to a weather bug app what are you really going to use so that's really where some of these questions are going we've got a multiple sources of information we want to get it to people and part of what we need to understand part of our grant process and our cloud warning process overall is how would you like to see it would you like to see it on a web phone both that's kind of what we're wanting to have a little dialogue about I think most people will probably be able to see it on the phone on holidays I mean how would you explain what's going to be the first time that you make the data available wouldn't the pre-market package it up and supply it however suits their needs in terms of like the weather bug app is that a DB channel app that they put it out the weather bug is a dedicated app it seems like the dissemination would be and we want to do some of the pushing of it out on our end but we also know people are going to reach down and grab it get it back and grab it why you're wanting to be a data collection why are you trying to push that out there well our number one goal is to be able to we've got a stormwater management division and part of what we do is we try to make flooding damages for people and property be reduced over time and we can do that in a number of ways we can regulate we can go out and do flood control projects the amount of flooding in a certain location that's really expensive or we can basically tell people where the floods are and when so they can avoid being there so we try to do all of those things so the warning part is what we're here to talk about tonight so part of the reason why we want to collect the data and make it available is the warning component as opposed to making the flood go away more regularly right I'm just thinking someone else is already when you're talking about just the warning the general population out there someone else is already collecting that data and warning the population we won't be the mouthpiece that's why we're kind of saying where do you want to get your information because if that's your mouthpiece that's good we want to collaborate with but you're talking about collecting that data and supplying that someone else is already collecting that data and supplying it but we're adding to that that data collection network we're going to have new gages in places where there are not gages so that the people like Bob can have better information to do is forecasting better because you'll have additional information to do work with maybe this might clarify things lots of the and Bob you can correct me if I'm wrong the lots of the information that the weather service gets is city sources so Grand Prairie has its own network Fort Worth has its own network Dallas has its own operated and managed by the cities and then Weather Service has its very limited dedicated weather stations USGS has its dedicated limited weather stations the Terrain Regional Water District so they collect all of the data and make it available to their forecasters and their folk that look at radar signatures and things like that but they rely on the city supplying them good data if we didn't exist they'll see a big black hole in the city in terms of rainfall how good does the data have to be and how precise does the data sit out in the morning pretty accurate you know if some of those intense storms take place within 15 minutes we got very flashy water sheds if you miss the stuff within 15 minutes you already flooded we have some of the folks can relate to the Central Arlington Heights people go to work in the morning come back in the evening there was a huge flood in there they didn't even know about it it was gone in 15 minutes the bridge is done in 15 minutes so if you don't catch those intense storms in 15 minutes that's why it's important to get all that communication proper because if you're going around pooling every 5 minutes the old system the alert system you'll miss some of those intense events the the flash flood operations in our office we have a program that surprisingly we first out into the software and I don't know why they did that but we've pulled it out and the forecasters use it it looks at all the real-time rainfall data coming in so when we get forward we get Dallas and we get Grand Prairie and all that data comes into the system and it's just in the database the screen will update for the forecasters so they can go and look to say okay the Grand Prairie alert gauge locations had 3 inches of rain in 45 minutes so we have an idea what's going on in the morning so we can make the flash flood warnings maybe a bit more specific like instead of saying there's somewhere between 2 and 5 inches of rainfall we know we have measured 3 inches of rainfall which goes back to the accuracy of the data and then we can say that we're expecting another 1 to 2 based on what the storm trends are doing with the radar estimates as it's falling now the data is invaluable especially in real-time flash flood operations for us and frankly that's where our struggle is is to try to keep the real-time data coming in flowing as it should and from my standpoint it's turned into a nightmare but hopefully we can fix it so it's kind of a fractured system and that's one of the things that I'm hoping we can rectify another quick example is we have rain gauges on the flasher locations if we could have a rain gauge somewhere else up in the watershed and we have measures of intense rainfall then we could actually have people heading out there to the barricades before the high water warning flashers go off we could actually get there first and give people a better level of protection I was going to ask about if the city is going to use like the social media apps and stuff like facebook and twitter party all going to like utilize those to bid information out there like I don't know how it would happen but like alerts like through twitter I know that and hey Linda we might have to tap into your expertise on this I know that the city has facebook and the city communications office posts stuff there the question is whether they post any of the kind of emergency information on there let's say rain flood tornado that kind of stuff they do if the department asks them to if it's something that's within hours and it's all weekend unfortunately not when it's needed if it's something that is a big you know build up to and then you have enough low lead time then they're going to be posted so that's why the nixle is important because that's where our office of emergency management uses nixle to get out information very short time frame yeah because a lot of people they don't necessarily have an app and they're more likely to be on facebook or twitter or something yeah we're fine a lot of people a lot of people use twitter for news so I would figure like a lot of people would use twitter for like whether yeah I feel like that could be I mean it probably be a lot of work you know like to have an additional person tweeting out and you know hosting updates about every like thing like that but that's exactly what we want to hear if that's where you get your news then we need to be aware of that I think one of the successes of that ATX plus is that the city is acquiring house citizens warning other citizens so they're just warning on the warning from other citizens they're not generating it themselves you know and that helps in real time be able to kind of get the message out that people help each other that's been a very helpful one social media data right behind it is big data so this age people are doing a lot of harnessing big data I mean for example when VOLA was kind of the brick out of time so Google did some analysis they find that if you were searching to put a VOLA keyword in there they literally can just kind of identify where people in panic where population is going to find out and that's something very interesting but related to floods I mean that is another obvious thing I see floods somewhere that's the factory information and also that thing can be passed on to the next one where you see the tweeters or maybe on the Facebook they can really see something happening and then you tag the georachmas data to give you that information they don't know what was going on and naturally it's that information that I've been doing that for a while 12 schools they were all down or 7 and they have a new forward running just to clarify that there have been a lot of problems because I mean the tweeters come in people take them and have a two-phase need to get in the same location you have to make sure that you differentiate so I mean it's useful but it's not like a panacea of a thing I would take a I just have a last question right here on the basis so this is a system to me instead of called flood warning system it's more like a flood monitoring system because you collect data and there and in my mind flood warning has a warning feature basically it's a hey the system makes a decision for you so where is the information you need to be kind of being alert so basically the way people do it is put a hydrology simulation and you have a now testing feature take the rainfall data put in hydrology like the IRC they do there they take the rainfall data running there hydrology model and output what does the hydrograph look like and so give people more lead time and so that's the step in the city that you go towards or just this is the flood warning system that's the that is the final term of the warning we have no firm plans to get into the forecasting business okay we might we will evaluate that right now the objective is to collect and share information which includes just to find my dad Chris the warnings that the weather service releases that our office of emergency management releases that kind of the warning aspect of it that the kind of the central authority for the city is the office of emergency management so all of that will get fed into the public facing component of our communication tool but we ourselves in storm water are not going to be in the business of issuing warnings to collect that information and just make it available sorry Chris that's basically it we won't likely get into the forecasting business anytime soon no firm plans, no funding for that we're going to do the best job we can to monitor share the information let others do the warning make sure it goes to the right places work with people like Bob to basically when we give information and with Cedar as well and basically say here's the neighborhood change that followed in this watershed that's associated with this case we've got that information we can share it and then other people that are in the warning business that really are good at that they can do that job one of the things is that we can like of the docs on the map system will kind of highlight hey the sensor is saying that the water levels exceeded the crest of the road boom it'll highlight in red as to how you use that information and tell people hey avoid this that's not going to be explicitly like it should be pretty obvious to the residents seeing that information that this is an area that you want to avoid but that information will be made available in a pictorial form we've kind of had some discussions on that how much interest in that would there be I think it's very interesting because I personally developed a flow one that was the first device to actually be put in because really avoiding people going there to see how high the water is by you that's what also we are building an audience for the city and we had a public first responder and a lot of our response said hey why can't we just have an infrared camera and these days a lot cheaper than the tax and the tax dot has a lot of traffic cameras installed on highways and I don't think that's only one I know in Houston looking down at the 288 highway the Great Spidey watershed that's the one I know so a lot of resource can be reduced you don't have to just turn an angle towards the low cost there's maintenance concerns over that and how cameras fail and hail storms other things while going to the city to maintain whatever system there is so the grant is funding the initial installation but then somebody has to go out there and monitor to check to make sure the bird doesn't hold its nest in the right position and make sure there's ongoing maintenance costs to any system so I think we need to try to keep it simple to keep it simple but part of the reason that we wanted to talk to the public is to say you know if we got 90% of the people said then the ideal thing for me would be to log on to a website be able to click on that see the camera and know what that low water crossing looks like so I can make a decision if that's where everybody is we need to know that but you're exactly right all the infrastructure is exactly right and also the bandwidth think about one picture frame how much of information is communicated it will overwhelm the real time feed so that's the other big consideration you can leave it there on the table take it home you can send it to one of us including Linda we'll give you the address that'll be great I assume you want to talk to your wife and daughter the thing is that we got different ages obviously with the computer thing use of the phones ages really it's going to be a combination I don't think you can in a perfect world you have an app if everybody knew how to use an app but there's so many apps I'm always being told on Google different types of maps show the road construction it gets so confusing especially for older people they stick with one thing TV sometimes if you're at home that's a great view but then again sometimes you can't get it cell phones are good I think you just have to be open to all of them so I wouldn't think we'd want to have one thing to go to you'd have at least three and that's by making part of the objective here is to kind of to tell you all that we are making this information available to the public and you know whoever wants to access a TV cell phone app developers can access it and come up with their own thing and so yeah I think we will hopefully reach reach out those folks you know and they'll use this information in terms of how they have specific applications yeah Chris like for instance when you ask the feedback question we have such a small sample of meetings that we've had so it seems like you're just going to have to look at it it's like okay Lois coming in now what are the different things people use just going it that way and I guess I mean we started all talking about the dangers the drivers have coming up to a low water crossing hopefully they're not using an app while they're driving that's a whole different thing but I mean so there's a limited amount of information you know you're going to have state laws yeah I think part of the CASA team there I think trying to make it voice activated so it'll give you a kind of a verbal let me ask you a funny question what color is the warning light flashlight it's yellow okay there's something about that I've never thought about before because I don't really come up to too many but yellow imparts caution if you want to stop people you should be having a red yeah by the way these conversations have a long history too it's like a railroad crossing I guarantee you'd have a lot more fatal that's true and I think Chris you've been involved in these discussions with our legal team in terms of red versus yellow flashing but that's like a custom I pass and I feel a little guilty getting halfway out when it's yellow changing and I'll have idiots that are too car links behind me coming behind me so it seems like you really need to start looking at red that's what you're trying to tell people they're not going to pay attention to yellow just being through point wheel taken and I'm trying to recall the legal history behind that but it's been rehashed through the legal department and that was my thinking too it's like why aren't these red stop the people and send them back but it turns out that legally we can't use red red means stop like a stop sign put that on there there you go another link to add to what Rick is mentioning is on the warning system that where our people should stop but yet they go around it barricading, yes well the barricading that you've shown in your illustrations shows that you bring in yes so my suggestion would somehow have something connected to the warning system that lowers a barrier creates a tall skinny tower that goes across and when it gets to the red warning sign it automatically lowers it and then automatically erases it when it's safe and then maybe even have one of those something like pulse saving red laser laser thing and it also makes it's kind of erasing making an erasing laser thing that is emitted so you don't have something that's automated to come down in case this fails you have a laser light coming across that and that will get people's attention so and it probably would be just a matter of ease for some of these great staffs who are engineers too could probably do that in less than the next year there are some cities that have a three row crossing gate come down with that I think they work to a point but then they've been known to have been driven through too and people just ignore them well at least it's better than nothing there are some cities that will walk close to gates they have metal gates man's field test he knows when he sees certain stuff he's got metal gates that they will go out and shut the road with but it's a manual process I was trying to get assist with the manual because you have more than one area where there's warning signs you need something rather than having to get people to be shuttled where they are with and physically toting those warning signs barriers I think there's also laws that allow a city to recover the cost of high water could be enforced or could not be enforced that also tends to make people think twice that's publicized just as an aside I think the efforts of this project might help the city with some CRS credit good question I think it does have a component of flood warning CRS is comprehensive look at everything and I think this is one of the components frank and verifier I think we are eight CRS of eight this will help us move a little bit higher to those that are not aware the CRS kind of sets the national insurance rates and having systems like this help get that number down a little bit and then that will help the insurance rates that our insurance payers pay a good point alright sorry I think I went 40 minutes over but I assume you all had a good time that's why thanks for attending watch for the mid the kind of a public meeting in September we'll get that out a little bit more aggressively with inserts in the water bills thank you so much


This was great. I also have a good authority that the pricing scheme for the pre-events will change, which will hopefully lead to higher turnout and not what I consider prohibitive pricing. But still, I had fun. I hope you had fun as well. Thank all of you for attending and for sticking around here and for participating. It's really good. If you want more, in two weeks' time, of course, I'm a masochist. We have PromCon in Munich. There are still a few slots available. So if you are a spontaneous type or you live in Europe, that is an option. And also, obviously, we are going to have a Prometheus Day again next year at QCon Europe. If you don't know the split which we are having is for Prometheus Day, they're always attached to a QCon and they are more like one-on-one type content to allow people to actually onboard onto Prometheus. Whereas PromCon is more in-depth. We just heard about this, but I don't think we saw a good and quick link to go there. If you go to this URL, if you're interested, you can find both trainings on Prometheus and you can also find a direct link back to the certification. If you want this for your professional development or what have you, that's the place to go. If you want some personal development on the networking of the networking type, that is the place to go. That's the happy hour. It's going to happen on level two. As far as I'm informed, it's going to be outside, but I don't know exactly where it is. Just follow all the other people. But it's on level two. We are currently on level three, so one level down. You should be good. Thank you. Hopefully see you again and be excellent to each other.


I'm David Lyle on openspec-wordptl. I just want to start off with even the next slide. So I just want to start out like a lot of these reminding what our mission statement is in Horizon basically to provide an extensible unified web-based user interface for all integrated open stack services. So we want to be a unified user interface for all the open stack services that are integrated into the release. Obviously with the big tent discussions that scope may creep out a little bit, but for now that's still the range of what we're trying to accomplish. And then the other big item is we want to be extensible, so we realize that we can't deliver all functionality that you would need to operate a cloud or provide your end users via Horizon. Every cloud I know of runs other extensions, other things that they want to manage, so we want to be able to have that extension mechanism so that when you go and set up a cloud then you can plug in other functionality into Horizon. So just a little recap on Juno. Some of the big additions were support for Sahara. Sahara came out of or was added to the integrated release in Juno. We have rich support for creating clusters, creating jobs to run those clusters, to do MapReduce and other data processing operations. So that was a big addition for us in Sahara. There's a lot of functionality there, and I encourage people to check it out. Better plug-in support. We had a primitive plug-in support mechanism that we added in Leap Ice House. In Juno we flushed that out a little bit better, allowing you to pull in more of your static files, things like JavaScript images, other things that allow you to do a more full-featured extension. This also helps operators move away from the model where basically you have to pull down the Horizon repo and then hack the code inside of Horizon to extend it. That's really not a great model for anybody who's trying to deploy code and then keep it up to date with Trunks, so we've been working hard to provide a better mechanism. The next item that we did was UX updates. So we kind of walked into some older technology, some older versions of Bootstrap for our styling and JavaScript and other things. We finally got past that so we can pull in a lot of the bug fixes from upstream, a lot of the styling improvements, a lot of the UX improvements. So now we're currently up to date with Bootstrap and a lot of the other underlying libraries that we were dependent upon and so that's been a great step forward. The last big thing I'd like to point out is Glance added the metadata catalog concept and the general release and Horizon provides support for both viewing and updating metadata properties on things like images and volumes and post aggregates. And so we provided a nice widget for that and that functionality was added in Juneau. There'll be further enhancements of that in Kilo. So what's next on the deck for Kilo? So the first item is going to be support for Ironic. So Ironic graduated in the old mechanism, again with the big tent model, things may change, but we plan on supporting Ironic in the Kilo timeframe both for end users and also for operators. So end users will have the option when interacting with nobody to set up a bare metal instance rather than to have that option and then operators as well to both specify new nodes and then bring them in allocation. So at the summit we spent a lot of time talking about how we were going to provide a better user experience going forward. It's been a big focus of mine since I became PPL and trying to take Horizon and make it a lot more user-friendly. And so about a release ago we decided to start moving towards AngularJS as a more of a client-side architecture. The reasoning behind that is just to provide better feedback to users quicker. We tried not to do so much data loading on each request, so push a lot more of the UI onto the client-side, cache data there, and be able to operate on a lot more data and provide that information back to user a lot quicker. So in Kilo one of the first things we're going to do is work on a reference implementation for how Horizon is going to move forward in this transition. The focus of this will be on the identity dashboards or identity dashboards, so panels like projects and users. And when you bring in Keystone V3 you'll get groups and roles and domains. And so this basically will use that as a way to set up the reference implementation for going forward on how we're going to use Angular and how others can use it in extensions going forward as well. Part of the improved user experience effort that we're working on is improving the table experience. So right now the state of the... Each server has different APIs and Horizon kind of thinly represents that API to the user via a list or a table. So the filtering's inconsistent currently. Pagination is inconsistent. The different APIs do different things with pagination. They provide different filters, different ways to search, essentially. So what we're going to do is we're going to move a lot of that onto the client-side as well. We're going to try and cache a bit more data on the client and provide the pagination and the filtering in the Horizon code rather than relying on the APIs to do it. In that way, we can provide a consistent user experience. So the user doesn't have to guess if they're moving through the Horizon UI and landing on a new page and trying to figure out what the paradigm is for this page. So again, this is just trying to improve the user experience but more information at the user's fingertips and allow them to find data a lot more quickly and accomplish the tasks that they're trying to do. Additionally, as far as the user experience, so we implemented a wizard. I believe that was back in late Havana. I thought that kind of that stagnated as we were trying to move forward but it's a primitive wizard. So a step workflow, essentially. We're going to refocus on that in this release. Part of that is with the Angular implementation. So in this release, we'd like to get the launch instance workflow or wizard greatly improved. That's one of the biggest usability issues with Horizon right now is that the launch instance workflow is just very confusing, requires a lot of knowledge up front. So we've been working with the OpenStack UX scheme for the past release essentially on design to get a better workflow on that and move forward. Part of that, that'll be implemented on the client side as well. And so we want to make sure that we're not kind of pinging ourselves into a corner on the implementation. So we're going to do the network wizard as well just to make sure that we have an extensible format, extensible widget on the client side that we can reuse. We're going to continue to refine the plugin support. As I said before, it's really important that we have a clean plugin mechanism that doesn't involve editing the source code in the Horizon repo in any way or the Horizon package when it gets shipped. Right now, the plugin mechanism does require you to add files into the directory where Horizon gets deployed. Obviously, that's not optimal, and it causes a lot of problems when you want to go and update a package if you're doing it with a packaging system. So we're going to continue to refine that so that you can point to where that plugin mechanism is. Again, and then we're going to have to refine a little bit to provide better Angular support as well as we're moving more in that direction. Better theming. So another big concern for operators is that they don't want to ship Verizon looking the same as everybody else's UI, especially if you're putting it in front of customers or you're wanting to do refiller models. We need to be able to theme it better. We need to be able to do that without hacking into the Horizon code so the rule for this is we started down this road. We started pulling out the appropriate variables for coloring and size that operators want to change to change the look and feel. We're going to continue going down that road and provide hopefully a much better theming mechanism that's a lot easier to leverage. Federation and single sign-on. So we're working with the Keystone team to provide federated authentication. Obviously, a lot of corporations that use OpenStack have an authentication back in already where all the users are set up. They don't want to have to pull that into Keystone or all that user information into Keystone. They don't want to have to duplicate all that. So we're going to provide the federation a mechanism to do that federated log-on. Come along with that single sign-on where hopefully if you're authenticated into your corporate authorization system already, then when you come to Horizon, you wouldn't have to re-authenticate. Multi-domain identity operations. Keystone v3 has been out in Savannah. Actually, yeah, I think it's Savannah. There's support for multiple domains in there. We support that to a degree in Horizon. We need to do a much better job. Part of that is you want to have a much richer set of roles than admin and member to do these operations. You want to have, say, a domain admin. We can't really support that right now because we don't interact with Keystone the right way. So we're going to tackle adding that support in this release. So that should provide. This will be a step forward also on the hierarchical multi-tenancy path at the Keystone implementing in Keylo. So this work will be leveraged in that as well as what's already there in Keystone v3. Another big thing that we've been pushing on for a couple of cycles is getting integration tests going. So for the long time, Horizon had just unit tests. We had one integration test that ran in Tempest. It still does, actually. But we've been working heavily on trying to get an integration test suite set up and going. So we actually have quite a few integration tests that run against the Horizon gate jobs now. They're not as big as part of Tempest because we're still trying to work through the kinks and get it more full-featured. But I think we'll be ready with that at the end of Keylo to be able to run all the gate and jobs, at least for Horizon. And that is all I had for Keylo. We'll continue to finish fleshing out API support. So Horizon has pretty good API support across the open stack, but there are certainly parts of the API that we don't represent. And as services move forward with the versions of the APIs and adding features, obviously we like to pick those up as well as we move along. So that will also be, I mean, that's a consistent focus of ours is to try and remain in sync with the other services. And you can feel free to contact me on free.irc. That's David's type in Lyle, or you can email me at david.lyleandintel.com. We have weekly team meetings. The time is off late, so it's best to check out the open stack meetings page if you'd like to join in and provide some feedback or ask questions.