Doge reduced warning and response time for the Texas flood.

[Delldude]

As Flood Deaths Rise, Texas Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by DOGE-Gutted National Weather Service | Common Dreams

"Experts warned for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season," said one critic.

www.commondreams.org

Voluntary cuts?

 

[IM2]

Welp, nobody's gonna miss that you're using dead people as a tool to push your point.

Slick move.

You are really stupid.

 

[blackhawk]

We do get weather reports here we get the alerts when the national weather service issues flash flood warnings, severe thunderstorms warnings, tornado warnings etc, etc, ect. We also get alerts on our phones as well.

 

[citygator]

Massive firings never happened if you looked into the facts. Something like 560 people left NWS, something like 300 took buyouts, another 200 decided to retire.....or vice versa.

500 people cut. 40 dead. And rising. Making America Great. Nothing greater than meeting Jesus at 13 when you suffocate under water because we don’t care about anything but politics.

 

[Delldude]

500 people cut. 40 dead. And rising. Making America Great. Nothing greater than meeting Jesus at 13 when you suffocate under water because we don’t care about anything but politics.

500 voluntarily left.....get a life you asshole.

Quit spreading lies

 

[Dirk the Daring]

No body is saying better predictions would have prevented the rise.

It's that better weather forecasting would have predicted the rise earlier and allowed more time for evacuations.

Please be honest.

WW

12 hours before isn't a enough time? 12 hours?

 

[Dirk the Daring]

What is 'sick' about it.
Is it the 'warning time'?
Is it the 'Emergency Alerts' that were sent out?
Was it the advanced warning about heavy rain in the forecast?

No Really, what is it that is making you despise the 'Libs' or 'Dems' about this terrible flood?

How about the way they exploit it for political fodder? Case in point, please read thru the thread you are posting in. Alerts went out as early as 12 hours before the flooding and again 3 hours before, yet not one Lib/Dem/Moron has mentioned that. Only 'Trump cuts' blah blah blah. I don't like the idiot in chief, but this is sickening. Way to go to defend it though...

 

[Dirk the Daring]

 

[Delldude]

As Flood Deaths Rise, Texas Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by DOGE-Gutted National Weather Service | Common Dreams

"Experts warned for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season," said one critic.

www.commondreams.org

No chance you can backup the 'Facts' from your article?

 

[candycorn]

Massive firings never happened if you looked into the facts. Something like 560 people left NWS, something like 300 took buyouts, another 200 decided to retire.....or vice versa.

So according to you, 300--more than half--left due to being offered a buy out.

Who offered the buy-out with no plan to re-distribute their duties?

Your blob.

Thanks for playing.

Check please.

 

[candycorn]

No if there were only some people at NOAA to distribute that bulletin.

 

[Delldude]

So according to you, 300--more than half--left due to being offered a buy out.

Actually, it's been reported via media...................try to keep up.

 

[candycorn]

No chance you can backup the 'Facts' from your article?

Here are quotes from the Republican Sherriff, County Judge and City Manager.

"Listen, everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service," Kidd reiterated. "You all got it; you're all in media. You got that forecast. It did not predict the amount of rain that we saw."

Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice also said during the press conference that the storm "dumped more rain than what was forecasted" into two forks of the Guadalupe River.

Kerr County judge Rob Kelly told CBS News: "We had no reason to believe that this was gonna be anything like what's happened here. None whatsoever."

Since January, the NWS—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—has reduced its workforce by nearly 600 people as a direct result of staffing cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as part of Trump's mission to eviscerate numerous federal agencies.

 

[Delldude]

Since January, the NWS—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—has reduced its workforce by nearly 600 people as a direct result of staffing cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as part of Trump's mission to eviscerate numerous federal agencies.

Voluntary retirements and accepting buyouts.

Prove me wrong.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
[…]
Under the Trump administration, the Weather Service, like other federal agencies, has been pushed to reduce its number of employees. By this spring, through layoffs and retirements, the Weather Service had lost nearly 600 people from a work force that until recently was as large as 4,000.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

Less government, more death and destruction.

But at least their taxes are lower than they would otherwise be.

 

[shockedcanadian]

So based on this logic, would communism prevent injuries from all natural disasters?

 

[JGalt]

“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
[…]
Under the Trump administration, the Weather Service, like other federal agencies, has been pushed to reduce its number of employees. By this spring, through layoffs and retirements, the Weather Service had lost nearly 600 people from a work force that until recently was as large as 4,000.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

Less government, more death and destruction.

But at least their taxes are lower than they would otherwise be.

I doubt those 600 out of a work force of 4,000 were really "key roles." More likely they were low-production employees who sat at their desks and posted hateful anti-Trump screed on social media all day.

Good riddance.

 

[SweetSue92]

“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
[…]
Under the Trump administration, the Weather Service, like other federal agencies, has been pushed to reduce its number of employees. By this spring, through layoffs and retirements, the Weather Service had lost nearly 600 people from a work force that until recently was as large as 4,000.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

Less government, more death and destruction.

But at least their taxes are lower than they would otherwise be.

"Some experts say".....sure, sure.

People HATE the "experts" now and with good reason.

Also, you all jumping to politicize the tragic death of little girls is so horrid, yet so desperate. Of course you can't see that.....

 

[luiza]

“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
[…]
Under the Trump administration, the Weather Service, like other federal agencies, has been pushed to reduce its number of employees. By this spring, through layoffs and retirements, the Weather Service had lost nearly 600 people from a work force that until recently was as large as 4,000.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

Less government, more death and destruction.

But at least their taxes are lower than they would otherwise be.

FAKE NEWS AGAIN CELIA
Unless those few extra people had buckets so large that they could have personally dealt with it--- a thousand bucket scoops per second by ten thousand people might have helped a teeny weeny bit .

See what a figure of fun and ridicule you are , Celia ?

 

[Dekster]

“The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, also had significant vacancies, including a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer, Mr. Fahy said. Staff members in those positions are meant to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.
[…]
Under the Trump administration, the Weather Service, like other federal agencies, has been pushed to reduce its number of employees. By this spring, through layoffs and retirements, the Weather Service had lost nearly 600 people from a work force that until recently was as large as 4,000.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

Less government, more death and destruction.

But at least their taxes are lower than they would otherwise be.

I've read that the NWS and Accuweather both issued flash flood watches/warnings for the area ahead of time. Apparently the storm dropped a lot more water than even they expected. I assume the area experienced the same type set up other parts of the country have seen in recent weeks---the lack of strong high level winds have left a lot of storms just camping out on top of places when they let go.

Anyway, as tragic as it is, when you build a summer camp in flash flood alley or thereby send your kids there, you are rolling the dice.