Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that

On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard.

"I look over to where the barn is over there, and I see pieces of my wood floating, and I was like, 'What? ' And I immediately was like, 'I have to go. ' Close my laptop, and I get my kids up, and I'm like, 'Something's wrong,'" Lin recalls.