Doge reduced warning and response time for the Texas flood.

[BULLDOG]

Reduced how dumbass. The watch was broadcast Thursday night and the warning issued shortly after at 1:00 a.m. Friday morning. What else could they have done - hand out flyers?

They could have given a more accurate estimation of how much rainfall to expect. All bad weather isn't the same.

 

[22lcidw]

Doge gutted the National Weather Service for the entire country.

DOGE noticed the scams of climate change caused by humans' agendas. The infection in sciences over the last half century and more is forced from the elites of global domination for pure power. It needs to be cleaned up. I do not want to get a TV reports of a disaster with extra statements of global climate change every time something happens. That is insulting. The infection even controls the Weather Channel and others.

 

[BULLDOG]

How do we compete with a rising nation like China, while we pay everyone off for compassion? Tell us how to produce manufacturing with all of the taxations in all ways needed to do this while China does not have the same issues. How do we compete? You see, someone has to do the slug work for others to live well. We are so spoiled we have a fair portion of an uneducated population who supposedly will not do the work newer immigrants and illegals do here. And this is from you who make those statements. So, workers in foreign lands are okay to be treated as semi slaves yet those here who are semi slaves in menial work according to you are to be used as propaganda because no citizens will work it according to you while you live the life of riley and have nothing in the game to suffer from.

Not sure what any f that might do with needing an accurate weather forecasting agency.

 

[OODA_Loop]

They could have given a more accurate estimation of how much rainfall to expect. All bad weather isn't the same.

They issued severe flood - get to higher ground warnings in advance. No other meteorological agency contradicted the predictions based on their own models and data.

 

[BULLDOG]

From the posted X

The "Texas Weather People" said they fine tuned the NWS predictions and none of the predictions by local or NWS reflect the reality that happened.

You cant always predict the weather.

Even after a tragedy of this magnitude, you don't care that poor choices made things worse.

 

[OODA_Loop]

Even after a tragedy of this magnitude, you don't care that poor choices made things worse.

What poor choices were made?

 

[Seth]

Gutting means all of the above. Local infrastructure was depending on the national forecast. Seems the locals went by the book, but were dependent on incomplete/faulty information.

I’ll admit, my first reaction to this story was suspicion. “Gutted” sounded like political spin—one of those narratives crafted to frame budget trims as existential threats to public health. I figured maybe DOGE just made general cuts, and some agency managers tailored them to create maximum public frustration… you know, the ol’ ‘make-the-boss-look-bad’ maneuver.

So I did what I always hope others will do: I tried to falsify my own assumption.

What I found surprised me:

• The hiring freeze and the 27% NOAA budget cut weren’t vague belt-tightening—they were explicit top-down directives from the White House and DOGE.
• Local NWS field offices didn’t sabotage operations. Quite the opposite: they fought to stay open, requested exemptions, and made tough choices like cutting research instead of public warnings.
• FEMA didn’t want to lose staff either. They started reassigning surge-response teams to cover routine vacancies—creating risks elsewhere, not headlines.
• GAO even flagged disaster readiness as a growing “high-risk” category, citing actual staffing and funding gaps—not just partisan grumbling.

So in the end, no, this wasn’t just political theater. The cuts were real, the damage was predictable, and the managers on the ground seem to have done their best to minimize harm, not maximize drama.

Lesson learned: skepticism is good—but so is checking your own math.

(And if 27% of your storm-warning budget vanishes during hurricane season, you’re not “trimming fat.” You’re showing up to a house fire with a Capri Sun.)

 

[defcon4]

Doge taking a chain saw to our weather monitoring and warning systems and to FEMA has made the tragedy of the Texas flood even worse than it had to be. Those agencies were in place for a reason, and should have never been degraded by someone who didn't even understand why we need those agencies.


Yes, it's quite possible that victims of the recent Texas flood could have received earlier or more effective warnings if not for cuts and policy shifts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and former President Donald Trump's administration.


What Happened in Texas?


On July 4, 2025, catastrophic flash flooding struck areas along the Guadalupe River, leading to fatalities and widespread emergency rescues. Local authorities issued urgent warnings, but the scale and speed of the flooding overwhelmed many systems.


How DOGE and Trump’s Policies May Have Affected This


According to investigative reporting from the Texas Observer and San Antonio Current, the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative significantly impacted federal disaster preparedness and response:

• FEMA Cuts: DOGE slashed FEMA’s workforce by about 20% and froze parts of its funding.
• Disaster Aid Shift: Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA and shift disaster response responsibilities to individual states, arguing governors should handle emergencies independently.
• Climate Risk Data Degradation: DOGE reportedly dismantled or degraded federal resources that track and model climate-augmented weather risks, such as flood forecasting and early warning systems.
• Infrastructure Investment Delays: Federal support for flood prevention projects—like levees and drainage upgrades—was reduced or delayed, leaving vulnerable areas more exposed.

Could Earlier Warnings Have Been Possible?


While local agencies like the Harris County Flood Control District did issue warnings, the broader federal infrastructure that supports early detection, modeling, and communication of extreme weather risks may have been weakened. This could have:

• Reduced the lead time for warnings
• Limited the accuracy of flood forecasts
• Slowed coordination between federal and local responders

So while it's speculative to say definitively that lives would have been saved, the evidence strongly suggests that federal cuts and policy shifts under DOGE and Trump made Texas—and its residents—more vulnerable to disasters like this one.

Never let a tragedy go to waste.....

 

[SmokeALib]

The Texas Weather people are blaming the NWS for not predicting it to be as bad as it was. That happens with an understaffed agency. See #26

They could have given a more accurate estimation of how much rainfall to expect. All bad weather isn't the same.

So is it the fault of the NWS if 4 inches of snow is forecast and 8 inches fell?
This is a new level of stupid.

 

[dudmuck]

So is it the fault of the NWS if 4 inches if snow is forecast and 8 inches fell?
This is a new level of stupid.

 

[1srelluc]

They could have given a more accurate estimation of how much rainfall to expect. All bad weather isn't the same.

And just how might they have done that?

Predictions for total rainfall out of a particular thunderstorm event are almost non-existent due to the variables involved that caused them to form in the first place.

In this case basically a river in the sky dumped it's contents upon the land.

 

[Delldude]

No one had the power to prevent it, but we could have predicted it sooner and better before the doge cuts.

They do all the 'predictions' based on computer modeling out of the Storm Prediction Center out of Oklahoma.

How many computers were layed off?

 

[SmokeALib]

What poor choices were made?

What poor choices were made?

His parents had a child.

 

[Zincwarrior]

**** your politics. We have had the water equivalent of a major hurricane here. Dozens of water rescues here. Dozens are missing here.

 

[Delldude]

**** your politics. We have had the water equivalent of a major hurricane here. Dozens of water rescues here. Dozens are missing here.

And it's Trump's fault?

 

[Zincwarrior]

And it's Trump's fault?

**** you no. People are dead here and you ***** are playing team politics.

 

[Delldude]

**** you no. People are dead here and you ***** are playing team politics.

Seems to be the way it goes anymore wouldn't you say?

 

[citygator]

Yes! Because the NWS was never wrong before Trump!

Nobody ever died before Trump because staffing was cut. Less than 30 days ago the NWS started scrambling to hire people realizing it made a huge mistake in staffing. Now people are dead. I linked the NWS statement above from June.

Those 528 people cut would have made a difference staffing a holiday weekend which the NWS said they were having trouble doing round the clock.

 

[airplanemechanic]

20 children at a camp were swept away by flood waters during the night while they slept and are now presumed dead and your response is LOL? That's heart-breaking

Desperate search for missing girls from summer camp after Texas floods kill at least 24

No, the LOL is democrats blaming DOGE cuts for floods.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Seems to be the way it goes anymore wouldn't you say?

Its weird and crazy. Its like a hurricane sparked up in central texas. It was supposed to be dry yesterday. WTH.

Eight inches here. But Texas is weird. We had nine inches in three hours once. I literally kicked open the fence to allow water in the back to drain out because it was flooding into the kitchen.