As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

[ozso]

Yes, leaving children vulnerable without armed protection against threats make no sense.

Sorry, I'm having trouble making the connection between children being armed and a flash flood.

 

[Desk trauma]

Sorry, I'm having trouble making the connection between children being armed and a flash flood.

Clearly had the counselors been armed they could have protected the camp from threats.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Maybe this thread shouldn't be in American Politics to begin with... Sends the wrong message.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Clearly had the counselors been armed they could have protected the camp from threats.

So the phones are the threat... So, shoot the phones? Or the water?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Maybe this thread shouldn't be in American Politics to begin with... Sends the wrong message.

Local officials blame federal officials is the headline.

 

[Desk trauma]

Maybe this thread shouldn't be in American Politics to begin with... Sends the wrong message.

...Because this is crazy.

Horrifying really. First the flood came now people are out there being terrorized by government rescue crews because what’s more terrifying than the government sending people there to help?

 

[Desk trauma]

So the phones are the threat... So, shoot the phones? Or the water?

The water would have cleared thought twice were it facing armed people.

 

[ozso]

The water would have cleared thought twice were it facing armed people.

You're still making absolutely no sense whatsoever. Is this based on tweet someone made?

 

[Landon Caeli]

I understand these things can become stressful. It's okay. I can get that way sometimes too.

 

[Desk trauma]

Now the real question, what has Texas as a whole and this camp in particular done to have protection withdrawn and such a disaster take place? Is abortion Insufficiently illegal?

 

[Landon Caeli]

Now the real question, what has Texas as a whole and this camp in particular done to have protection withdrawn and such a disaster take place? Is abortion Insufficiently illegal?

Taxes were too high.

...I'll go with you down this road, Desk. I won't let you go it alone!

 

[Say it aint so]

The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge, according to Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union that represents Weather Service workers.​

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The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.​

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That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure. --NYT​

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If you fire or promote staff reduction, then expect decline in capability. If you cut funding, expect a reduction of equipment affecting capability. It's not rocket science and the warnings declared long before this flood. But don't worry, Marge Greene has introduced legislation to get at the real root of the problem which are “lasers or blue beams of light” from “space solar generators” manipulating weather. Kind of like covid, climate change don't care. Weather is getting more chaotic and we have the same party as Greene cutting funding that even hurts farmers farm, while wanting to kill FEMA and let states fend for themselves. It's a constant cycle of "What's the Matter with Kansas".

 

[Desk trauma]

Taxes were too high.

If only they could get the income tax rate down from its current 0%

 

[caffeinated.hermit]

The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge, according to Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union that represents Weather Service workers.​

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The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.​

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That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure. --NYT​

Something I have noticed... weather.gov is one of my favorite websites. It's simple, the map is colorful, and I love weather. The forecasts for my region have gotten a lot worse over the last few months. Detailed predictions are just one day out as opposed to three. Things are not updated very well, not like they used to be. I have to look at weather from regions to the west and south of me to get anything like an accurate sense of what's coming. It wasn't like this last year.

 

[Lukaris]

A tragedy is a tragedy but there must be blame bot boxes to politicize things.

In Texas region prone to catastrophic floods, questions grow about lack of warning

Water rose fast along the Guadalupe River, causing more than two dozen deaths. Local officials said they couldn’t have seen it coming.

www.texastribune.org

Making sense of the weather that led to a horrible Texas flooding tragedy, plus Tropical Storm Chantal

In brief: Invest 92L became Tropical Depression 3 yesterday and is now Tropical Storm Chantal.

theeyewall.substack.com

 

[Gregory Thompson]

This policy is in line with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-led blueprint for a far-right overhaul of the federal government that calls for "dismantling" NOAA. Trump has also called for the elimination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arguing that states should shoulder most of the burden of extreme weather preparation and response. Shutting down FEMA would require an act of Congress.

Who needs accurate weather forecasts when climate change is a hoax? Certainly not Texas.

Behold, it is the chainsaw of bureaucracy.

 

[ozso]

Now the real question, what has Texas as a whole and this camp in particular done to have protection withdrawn and such a disaster take place? Is abortion Insufficiently illegal?

You tell us. What specific protection was withdrawn that let the disaster take place?

 

[Desk trauma]

You tell us. What specific protection was withdrawn that let the disaster take place?

Wait is that only a thing when disasters take place in areas that don’t vote republican? Just indifferent nature in conservative areas?

 

[rjs330]

Clearly a waste to send out any notice if anyone who could be affected may not receive the notice. Unlike announcements about wounded cops which the entire state must be sent posthaste.

Except warnings were sent.

 

[Landon Caeli]

Behold, it is the chainsaw of bureaucracy.

Musk is right about one thing in that video... It *is* our gold in Fort Knox. Gold was made illegal to possess in the United States between 1933 and 1974, and all gold had to be turned in, melted down, and surrendered to the government... And that's where all the gold in Fort Knox came from.

Not sure if it's the Mandella Effect that prevents people from knowing this..? But it's true.

That was just a fun fact that I had to let loose. Sorry. Now returning to the conversation at hand.