NORFOLK, Va. — Tucked between the Bay Point Marina and an East Ocean View apartment complex sits an unsuspecting weather gage, one of more than 150 in Virginia helping track flooding across the state.

"We are almost completely focused on flooding concerns in the state," Sarah Chappel says.

Chappel, a hydrologist based out of Charlottesville, is a part of the Flood Intel Unit (FIU) for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. It's a team consisting of just three people, each member dispersed strategically throughout the state.

The gages, designed to measure weather impacts strategically located across Hampton Roads and Virginia, assist in VDEM's data collection of storm events like the nor'easter that brought tidal flooding throughout the East Coast. Just in Hampton Roads al

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