Flood alert for flooded roads
I just want to share an experience i had a couple of days ago. It's rainy season here again in the Philippines and roads here can get flooded easily. So I was on my way home two nights ago and I consulted Waze on the best route since I know traffic would be bad. Waze gave 3 routes. Two would take me almost 2hrs and then one route with just a little over 1hr. So I took the fastest route. Abt 30mins into my drive, i was facing a flooded road with abt knee deep of water. On the map there was no traffic, but I sure wish somebody was able to report that it was already flooded. I just hope you can add a feature for that kind of situation. Thanks.
Great news! The option to report flooded roads is now available in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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Eduardo Teixeira commented
You should add a road flooded option
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Anonymous commented
I hope someone can look into a remedy 🙏.
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Anonymous commented
adding a way to detect if a road in or on your route would certainly help a lot of people since most of them don't understand [turn around don't drown]. You might be surprised but it might save a few lives!
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Lucas Oliveira commented
Já existe
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Anonymous commented
I live in Florida close to the water. When it rains heavily and we haven’t had rain in awhile it sits in the road causing flooding very quickly. When it rains for many days water sits in areas uneven on the road if there is poor draining. Please add “ Flooding’
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Silvana commented
Sugiro colocar um botão específico de alagamento para evitar que carros entrem em ruas alagadas ou com perigo de alagamento. O btoão perigo é muito genérico. Em época de chuvas ajudaria muito.
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Aaron Potier commented
I am in Houston. We are experiencing the floods currently. Can you add option to the app where people in flooded areas can alert to flooded streets? This can help in our commute. People are on Facebook asking for help from others to try and plan drives to other parts of town but we have no way of knowing what is blocked due to water
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Michel Pabst commented
Great idea.
Here to the city where I live, it would be incredible because we have a river that suffers from the tides and always when it coincides with rain and high tide, floods several downtown streets and neighborhoods. -
Arwin commented
I was wondering if the Waze app indicate flood areas? For example, if you drive the 110 freeway daily for work and would like to know if theres a flood area in certain areas.
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mg commented
In Texas we needed a new caution hazard type this weak with all the rains and flooding. I marked road closures to submit for the low water crossings, but you don't have weather related road closure option.
My default navigation preference is fastest, and I don't mind driving more miles to get to my destination sooner, so I enjoy the back roads you guide me on when the interstate highway is jammed. But, you did not have as Hugh water crossing option and I had to turn around several times off your route, cause of the rains.
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Zee commented
It'd be great to know where there is a flooding problem to avoid.
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Nathaniel commented
If users on the road can provide info on deep floods on the road it would be great as Philippines has frequent disaster
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Anonymous commented
Im from Manila and we often have impassable roads due to floods.include floods in your road hazard list.
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papi commented
Many road by me are flooded due to heavy rain causing traffic and hazardous driving conditions. Even though there is a weather report option, it doesn't specify flooding which would be very helpful
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Jope and Cathy commented
This will alert Wazers of impassable roads due to floods. An alert notice will help them find alternate routes for their safety and benefit. This qualifier can be added to either On Road hazard or Weather hazard. Can be both too.