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I ALWAYS carry my Bat Fludd Repellant EVERYWHERE I go (even to the toilet). Frankly anyone who doesn't deserves everything they get get.
First you have to prove things are worse. That hasn't been shown. We have had a lot of people die in weather related events throughout the years and we've been spending rhe money. So spending doesn't seem to have solved the problem if you are shooting for 100%.
Im responding to what people write on this thread.
600 highly trained and experienced meteorologists and climatologists. See articles linked earlier.
No, it sends exactly the right message. The drastic cuts made in so many agencies make our country vulnerable not only to climactic disasters but also to disease. The NIH and CDC have been completely gutted. No more research is being done on Alzheimer's and many other deadly diseases. There is a 10% chance that another pandemic similar to covid will arise in the next few years. During covid, Trump only virtually handcuffed, bound and gagged the scientists who knew what they were doing to pursue his own intuitive mistakes. Now we don't even have anyone at all working on eradicating deadly diseases. Do you know what it costs for Medicaid to provide care to an Alzheimer's patient in a nursing home? The best way to save billions on Medicaid would be to continue working on the successful cures for Alzheimer's so that elderly people could live their lives out independently far more often. There is a promising drug that is very expensive right now but also very effective. President Trump prides himself on being able to make deals. He could save billions on Medicaid by making a deal with big Pharma to sell it to Medicaid at a good price. Since the patient in a nursing home costs Medicaid at least $100,000 a year, making making a deal on that drug would save $100,000 per person per year.
If you would have read beyond the first paragraph of the article I quoted earlier in the tread, you would have read that staff shortages at the NWS and the inability to coordinate with local officials in a timely manner were an issue.
I miss popcorn, microwave went nuclear, had to throw it out.
I wouldn’t count on that. Having a weather radio and a contingency plan to respond to serious incoming weather has less, IMO, to do with being luddites and more to do with being responsible administrative and, in this case, wilderness-oriented professionals. I could see a modest Christian camp going either way on this.
That acritical is about speculation and it's vague ie "Texas officials".
Based on satellite view, the summer camp is a group of bungalows and other buildings alongside a highway. There are even tennis courts. It's the kind of place where 99.9% of the time nothing ever happens and usually the biggest threat from nature is mosquitos.
That’s true of nearly every place. That doesn’t absolve the folks in charge of their responsibilities to foresee concerns and make preparations for them.
