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2025-07-08 Caribbean-Latin America

Meteorologists: National Weather Service Had ‘Extra' Staff During Texas Floods, Not Impacted by Trump's Cuts

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-08 01:53|| || Front Page|| [142 views ] Top

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The difference between a LSD President and a MAGA President in office.

When it's an LSD, the media blames weather disasters and response failures on Climate Change and $$$ Issues.

When it's a MAGA President, it is all his fault, not the lame left over LSD DEI staff failures or Climate Change.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-08 07:21|| 2025-07-08 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Yesterday, the local ABC weatherman said he 'didn't have a political bone in his body, but here are the facts' and spelled out the timeline of 8-10 levels of warning. At least one should have set off cell phones.

The weather service did it's job. The problem was all the visitors were unaware of the river's potential and it happened overnight. Some camps got the word and evacuated. Maybe some had their phones turned off for the night.

Posted by Bobby 2025-07-08 08:34|| 2025-07-08 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 A man I knew is missing, along with his wife and 15 year old son. Their house was washed away. A 16 year old daughter was in another location away from the flooding. Now she’s an orphan. Despite owning the house, he wasn’t local to the area. I can only guess that he couldn’t conceive of how much the river could rise.

Posted by Remoteman 2025-07-08 12:02|| 2025-07-08 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Last night CNN, yes CNN, actually carried this story and the guy explained that some folks had turned off their phones or were out of service. I do believe after the emotions the deep dive will show the sheriffs and local police will end up changing protocols and alerting residents and campers.

Posted by 49 Pan 2025-07-08 12:42|| 2025-07-08 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 a local story is the alleged refusal of the Austin fire chief to let his emergency people deploy to the area

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2025/07/07/austin-fire-union-president-initiates-vote-no-confidence-in-chief-over-delayed-kerr-county-response/84496728007/

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-08 12:57|| 2025-07-08 12:57|| Front Page Top

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