>>509815963
>We have topopgraphy, we know how the water runs off, if we know how much water the soil contains, we should be able to know with the exact amount of rainfall known where it'll rise and by how much.

It's basically plugging in a modern computer game engine with real life sensor data, and then letting it do it's thing, and then triggering warnings and what-not.

How complex and, yet, ultimately banal and trivial when put that way, right?