HouReady
A Houston-only flood and commute companion that tells you, by neighborhood, which streets are passable right now, which bayou crossings are about to close, and whether your kid's school is delayed.
Houston-area commuters and school parents planning around a severe-weather morning
- Live passable-vs-impassable street layer sourced from city sensors, TxDOT feeds, and 311 reports
- Bayou-crossing check that scores your commute route for low-water crossing closures before you leave
- Zip-code scoped push alerts so you're warned only when your neighborhood is affected, not the whole metro
- Morning briefing that ties the day's rain forecast to school delays, so you know what to pack and when to leave
Houston searches spiked to 500+ alongside an active 'heavy downpours could lead to street flooding' alert — drivers and parents are actively trying to decide right now whether to leave early.
HoustonAlert already covers 160 ZIPs with multi-source real-time data and media outlets like KPRC maintain active flood trackers, proving sustained and spiky interest in exactly this problem.Houston Alert | Real-Time Road, Flood & Emergency Alerts ↗Flood Tracker | Houston, Texas Rainfall Totals | Click2Houston | KPRC ↗
Market is crowded: HoustonAlert, BayouWatch, Bayou City Watch, the official Harris County FWS map, TranStar, and free AlertHouston all serve the same road-flooding-school-emergency niche.BayouWatch — Houston Flood Alert System ↗Bayou City Watch - Apps on Google Play ↗Houston Alert | Real-Time Road, Flood & Emergency Alerts ↗
Direct competitors (AlertHouston, Harris County FWS, TranStar, BayouWatch) are free and civic-funded; users are conditioned to get this information at zero cost, with school delays freely published by HISD.AlertHouston - Wikipedia ↗Harris County Flood Warning System ↗
Houston's flat topography, expanding impervious cover, and intensifying rain events make street flooding a recurring, climate-worsening problem with durable utility.Houston Flood Map Live Today: Real-Time Flooding Updates, Road Closures and Weather Alerts ↗
Data sources (TranStar, Harris County FWS, NWS, TxDOT) are public APIs with documented feeds, but aggregating them, geofencing by neighborhood, and reliably scraping HISD school delay decisions is non-trivial engineering.Houston TranStar - Traffic Map ↗Houston Alert | Real-Time Road, Flood & Emergency Alerts ↗