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chine.bleu wrote:
Dawn Flood wrote:
On 7/9/2025 1:52 PM, chine.bleu wrote:
Dawn Flood wrote:
On 7/6/2025 12:20 PM, AlleyCat wrote:
Experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’
ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management
officials.
By Christopher Flavelle
Published July 5, 2025 | Updated July 6, 2025, 12:40 p.m. ET
Crucial positions at the local offices of the National
Weather Service
were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of Central
Texas on
Friday morning, prompting some experts to question whether
staffing
shortages made it harder for the forecasting agency to
coordinate with
local emergency managers as floodwaters rose.
Texas officials appeared to blame the Weather Service for
issuing
forecasts on Wednesday that underestimated how much rain was
coming.
But former Weather Service officials said the forecasts were
as good
as could be expected, given the enormous levels of rainfall
and the
storm’s unusually abrupt escalation.
The staffing shortages suggested a separate problem, those
former
officials said — the loss of experienced people who would
typically
have helped communicate with local authorities in the hours
after
flash flood warnings were issued overnight.
The shortages are among the factors likely to be scrutinized
as the
death toll climbs from the floods. Separate questions have
emerged
about the preparedness of local communities, including Kerr
County’s
apparent lack of a local flood warning system. The county,
roughly 50
miles northwest of San Antonio, is where many of the deaths
occurred.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings- >>>>>
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Trump is to blame for gutting the NWS, of course. Trump is
not to
blame for shithole red Kerr County in shithole red Texas not
having a
flood warning system. The stupid Trump-supporting locals are
to blame.
Yep, it's impossible to fine-tune any organization so that it
is 100%
efficient, which means, that to be fully staffed, any
organization needs
to be over-staffed, if only by a little bit.
Of course, we'll never know with absolute certainty if any
additional
NWS forecasters would have saved these hundreds of living
human beings
from the horrific & terrifying deaths that they all
experienced; their
pitiless screams, tears & cries have, along with them, been
forever
lost.
Dawn
They are the adults in the room.
Hi Siri,
It's been awhile. Having said that, I don't understand your
comment;
likely, the adults were screaming, too, at least some of them.
Dawn
I do not claim them to be intelligent or mature adults, but they
are the ones who want to be in charge, so they represent the
county, and it is their decisions children have to live with.
A long time policy of Congress is to take a little from other
states to protect people in the target state.
States can get stuck with unfortunate geology, weather, insects.
Good neighbours help, but it is still up to the state to identify
needs, propose solutions, and pay at least a part of it.
you are siri?! you should have made an announcement of your name
change!! i thought you were a chinese guy.
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