Doge reduced warning and response time for the Texas flood.

[Nostra]

It had no role in the Texas disaster, it depends on who are cut and what funds are cut.

In 2010 we had a snowstorm come through, it was supposed to be 4”-6” of snow, we got 36”, it had nothing to do with funding or personnel, the storm front stalled out and caught the area off guard, shit happens.

The Texas storm was similar and dumps many times its predicted amount, a once in over hundred year event.

Hurricane Milton was supposed to be a category 4 hurricane when it hit land in Florida and inexplicably it intensified to a category 5 when it hit. Fully staffed NWS and NOAA and funded got it wrong.

You can play stupid games but blaming anyone for a freak storm’s unpredictability, is pure stupidity and ignorance, but into today’s politics, it seems to be the normal for stupid to rule.

Trollwinger is a typical brain dead Dimwinger.

They think Daddy Government is able to solve any problem..............including the weather.............if we just tax the rich more.

 

[citygator]

They were down 500 staffers in that Texas office?

Prove it.

Straw man. Non sequitur,.

 

[BackAgain]

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.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

go.skimresources.com

Nothing posted in the bullshit first post has **** all to do with the claim made by Bullshit in his thread headline.

 

[Nostra]

All proven here and elsewhere. Stop with the continual lies.

Previous post:

The meteorologists said they did not think understaffed offices were a primary factor in the tragic outcome, even though the NWS has leadership gaps after a rash of staffing cuts.

Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union that represents government employees, said the San Antonio weather forecasting office did not have two of its top positions filled — a permanent science officer (a role that conducts training and is in charge of implementing new technology) or a warning coordination meteorologist (who coordinates with the media and is the public face of the office), though there are employees acting in those leadership roles. Overall, Fahy said, the offices had enough meteorologists to respond to the event.

FYI- your March 5th girlfriend has all the markings of a gay liberal.

Citygator doesn't do facts and reality. You are wasting your time on that idiot.

 

[Nostra]

Straw man. Non sequitur,.

Glad you admit your post is bullshit.

 

[BackAgain]

Straw man.

Being asked to prove a bullshit claim is a strawman? Shittycroc, you dipshit, you clearly do not understand the basics of argumentation nor the meaning of “strawman.”

 

[citygator]

Citygator doesn't do facts and reality. You are wasting your time on that idiot.

I just kicked his ass with links. You can’t read so it’s pointless. At least Delldude reads stuff and revises his points. You just post random thoughts. You must cowered away from a link request.

 

[BackAgain]

I just kicked his ass with links. You can’t read so it’s pointless. At least Delldude reads stuff and revises his points. You just post random thoughts. You must cowered away from a link request.

 

[Delldude]

I just kicked his ass with links.

LOL.......my butt hurts......LOL

Your links didn't work, btw.

 

[citygator]

Being asked to prove a bullshit claim is a strawman? Shittycroc, you dipshit, you clearly do not understand the basics of argumentation nor the meaning of “strawman.”

Straw man. I say 500 people were cut from the NOAA, he’s asked to prove all 500 came out that office. He is setting up a straw man argument that 500 people work in that office for me to prove when that wasn’t my claim. It is the classic definition of a straw man: “misrepsenting facts to make your argument easier”

That lesson was free. Next one I expect you to pay a 25% tariff.

 

[citygator]

LOL.......my butt hurts......LOL

Your links didn't work, btw.

It was to tik tok and if you don’t have the app sometime you have to log on at the website via browser. Pain.

 

[Frankenstein]

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.

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

go.skimresources.com

Not according to meteorologists in the area who had extra people staffed!

 

[BackAgain]

Straw man. I say 580 people were cut from the NOAA, he’s asked to prove all 500 came out that office. He is setting up a straw man argument that 500 people work in that office for me to prove when that wasn’t my claim. It is the classic definition of a straw man: “misrepsenting facts to make your argument easier”

That lesson was free. Next one I expect you to pay a 25% tariff.

Wrong again. If the Texas facility was full staffed, and it was, then cutting positions nationwide is irrelevant to the moronic claim that President Trump had any responsibility (via DOGE) for the flooding or the warnings which were sent out but not heard by some victims.

You have always been a troll. But logic has always eluded you.

Your lesson is bullshit and not even worth the electrons it took to post it.

 

[Frankenstein]

Those agencies capabilities were reduced. Can't just wish that part away.

Nope that is a lie they had extra staff to help

 

[hadit]

Extra staff from reduced skeleton levels. They did not have a Warning Coordinator on staff as he was exited and the staff was far reduced from a normal emergency.

Did any of that reduce the alerts that were supposed to go out?

 

[Frankenstein]

doge cut the department of education, so it is likely a child won't be taught math on the same level as before.

They cut the bureaucracy, we have been throwing money at education for years and nothing got better

 

[hadit]

Those agencies capabilities were reduced. Can't just wish that part away.

What services were they hindered from giving?

 

[Nostra]

It has been provided in this thread numerous times.

Once again reality kicks your lying ass.

Lies.

 

[citygator]

Wrong again. If the Texas facility was full staffed, and it was, then cutting positions nationwide is irrelevant to the moronic claim that President Trump had any responsibility (via DOGE) for the flooding or the warnings which were sent out but not heard by some victims.

You have always been a troll. But logic has always eluded you.

It was not fully staffed. No one ever said that. They said they had extra people there compared to the new reduced normal which was operating on less hours than same time last year. In fact the NOAA is hiring back over 125 people as soon as they can recognizing that they are unable to perform their tasks at the current levels. Why rehire 125 people in an environment of downsizing if you are adequately staffed? You don’t.

 

[Nostra]

I just kicked his ass with links.

More lies.

Reality just keeps kicking your lying sack of vermin shit ass, Simp.