https://www.kxan.com/investigations/federal-forecast-concerns-surface- in-texas-deadly-flooding-debate/
State and local officials are calling out federal
forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas
Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July
weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts
and staff shortages plague the National Weather
Service and other emergency management agencies
nationwide.
https://www.chron.com/weather/article/2025-atlantic-hurricane-gulf- forecasting-20400520.php
Just ahead of the most dangerous stretch of
hurricane season, the federal government has
quietly shut off a key stream of satellite data
that experts say is vital to forecasting deadly
storms.
One might ask why the "Texas officials" hadn't told the all girls
Christian Camp that the river could rise 20 feet in a freak weather
event so that it was
On 7/5/2025 11:39 PM, Gronk wrote:
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/federal-forecast-concerns-surface-
in-texas-deadly-flooding-debate/
State and local officials are calling out federal
forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas
Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July
weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts
and staff shortages plague the National Weather
Service and other emergency management agencies
nationwide.
https://www.chron.com/weather/article/2025-atlantic-hurricane-gulf-
forecasting-20400520.php
Just ahead of the most dangerous stretch of
hurricane season, the federal government has
quietly shut off a key stream of satellite data
that experts say is vital to forecasting deadly
storms.
One might ask why the "Texas officials" hadn't told the all girls
Christian Camp that the river could rise 20 feet in a freak weather
event so that it was putting children's lives at risk by placing their
cabins / tents in the flood plain area of a river. Even in the old days when people relied on the Farmer's Almanac to predict weather, they knew
that flash floods happen and in "hill country" you put children's
camping spots up on top of the hills, not in the flood plain.
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