This hurricane preparation and relief tool serves as a centralized platform for citizens and local/state governments to document and visualize hurricane impacts in real time. Users can upload images of hurricane-related issues—such as downed power lines, water outages, blocked roads, structural damage, sinkholes, gas leaks, hazardous debris, or stranded individuals—which are then categorized and mapped. A map interface displays these reports as markers, allowing users to click for images and additional details at specific locations. For governments, this provides a high-resolution view of critical areas, facilitating swift, targeted relief efforts and resource allocation based on reported damage and hazard density.

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• Map interface
• Map markers representing reports
• Report statistics
• Report submissions
• Clustering reports based on zoom level
• Descriptive popups of reports
• AI-based report filtering

To deploy this projects backend, follow these steps from the root directory.

# ~/holler
  cd backend 
  npm i

After installing the necessary dependencies, you MUST add your WATSONX AI API KEY and WATSONX AI auth type. The following dictates this setup, starting from the root project directory.

# ~/holler
  cd backend
  touch .env

Inside of .env paste the following lines:

MONGO_URI = SECRET_KEY
WATSONX_AI_AUTH_TYPE = iam
WATSONX_AI_APIKEY = SECRET_KEY

After the following steps are completed, start the backend

# ~/holler/backend
  npm start

To deploy this projects frontend

# ~/holler
  cd holler
  npm i
  npm run start

Open http://localhost:3000/ and access the application.

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