Twitter might have a better read on floods than NOAA

Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images Frustrated tweets led scientists to believe that tidal floods along the East Coast and Gulf Coast of the US are more annoying than official tide gauges suggest. Half a million geotagged tweets showed researchers that people were talking about disruptively high waters even when government gauges hadn’t recorded tide levels high enough to be considered a flood.Capturing these reactions on social media can help authorities better understand and address the