From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: All That Whaling, Screeching And Whining As To The Reason People Died In Texas Flooding: The NWS Staff Was Cut! - Sorry
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:14:20 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
The weather service issued a series of timely alerts: a flood watch early in the afternoon on July 3, a flash flood warning at 1:14
a.m. July 4, and a flash flood emergency at 4:03 a.m. July 4, before any in-person reports of flooding had been received.
Although Trump's cuts did affect staffing at the two weather service offices in charge of the affected area, an agency spokesperson
told us via email that BOTH OFFICES WERE FULLY STAFFED AT THE TIME OF THE FLOODS.
At 4:03 a.m, the warning was upgraded to the most serious alert, an emergency - a life-threatening situation issued when, as
Austin/San Antonio weather service meteorologist Bob Fogarty told The Texas Tribune, "someone has told us we need to get people out
of here immediately or people are going to die."
Cei told us that for flash floods, the National Weather Service is generally able to give residents "3 hours or more of what we
call 'lead time', which is the time in between the warning being issued and the event occurring." In this case, that lead time on
the initial warning was about accurate. The warning was issued at 1:14, and Cei said the first reports of flooding happened at 4:35
a.m., after the upgrade to an emergency.
In other words, THE FORECASTING WASN'T THE PROBLEM.
Guess who said that?
Snopes.
LOL
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