NWS cuts challenged due to flooding preparation in Texas

[Dr. Phosphorous]

The flood warning was issued THREE ******* HOURS before the flood, asshole.....No amount of staffing could have done any better.

No go take your meds and fortified wine.

I wasn't talking about this specific disaster, dumb ****.

 

[Nostra]

I wasn't talking about this specific disaster, dumb ****.

Go elsewhere then, troll.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The point is this -- dimocrap FILTH standing on the Still Warm Bodies of DEAD CHILDREN to try and make some political.

dimocraps are scum. ALL of them. Every single one of them is a scumbag.

And it's not like this the first time dimocrap scum have done this. Many times. In fact, every time there is a tragedy, here or eslewhere, if dimocrap scum think they can get some political points, they'll stand squarely on top of corpses to do so.

dimocraps are the scum of the Earth. Every One Of Them. Every last one.

Like I said - it is in Chapter 1 of their playbook. Never let a good disaster go to waste.

 

[pknopp]

Watch - Conditions are right for an event.
Warning - Shit’s happening

Blue light. K-mart special.

 

[pknopp]

The OP is bullshit, and doesn't have a clue. And your post supports it, not saying you wholeheartedly agree - but doesn't stray from the theme.

I don't think you know what you are rambling about.

The truth is this is being called a "1000 year event" - no recorded flooding that has ever happened to this extent. Ever. So there is no basis to draw from that it was going to happen like this. And warnings were given.

I believe they have called it a "100 year event".

 

[Nostra]

NWS was in top of this a week in advance.




Meteorologists first had an idea that a storm may be coming for this part of Texas last weekend, after Tropical Storm Barry made landfall in Mexico. “When you have a tropical system, it’s just pumping moisture northward,” says Chris Vagasky, an American Meteorological Society-certified digital meteorologist based in Wisconsin. “It starts setting the stage for heavy rainfall events.”

The NWS office in San Antonio on Monday predicted a potential for “downpours”—as well as heavy rain specifically at nighttime—later on in the week as the result of these conditions. By Thursday, it forecast up to 7 inches of rainfall in isolated areas.

 

[Rawley]

Says 600 were cut. I have to assume those cuts were already in affect.


E&E News: NWS hires won’t make up for Trump cuts, meteorologists say

And?

 

[pknopp]

And?

Read the thread.

 

[Nostra]

Read the thread.

Still waiting on your data showing how the warnings issued per NWS guidelines were out if the norm for this 1000 year event..

Got anything?

 

[pknopp]

Still waiting on your data showing how the warnings issued per NWS guidelines were out if the norm for this 1000 year event..

Got anything?

Never claimed to but ramble on.

 

[Nostra]

I don't think you know what you are rambling about.




I believe they have called it a "100 year event".

Nope. They called it a 1000 year event.

Hey, maybe one day you will get something right…….if you live 1000 more years.

 

[Marener]

In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending.

“Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”

The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge, according to Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union that represents Weather Service workers.

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

[Rawley]

Here’s the latest on personnel cuts at the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) under NOAA:


Scope and Timing of the Cuts

• In February 2025, roughly 880 NOAA employees (~7 % of its ~12,000-strong workforce) were terminated—including over 600 from NOAA and approximately 100+ at the NWS .
• Over 2024–early 2025, hundreds more left through attrition, buyouts, or probationary terminations, adding another 300+ lost positions

And?

 

[Nostra]

In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending.

“Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”

The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, which is responsible for some of the areas hit hardest by Friday’s flooding, was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge, according to Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the union that represents Weather Service workers.

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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

They issued warnings starting 12 hours in advance, per NWS guidelines, Stupid.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

So I call out the lies of your cult attempting to score political points in dead children and your response is to tell me to off myself?

The Cult is strong in this one.

We're not elected officials....Trump is.

And you excuse Trump's lies every ******* day....such as the stupid "DEI" bullshit that he said about the helicopter/plane collision back in January.

MAGA piece of shit hypocrite.

 

[rightwinger]

And?

And it shows that Nostra is a ******* liar

 

[Nostra]

And it shows that Nostra is a ******* liar

Nope. Warnings issued 12 hours out, per NWS guidelines.

Sorry moron, you can’t blame Trump for this 1000 year flood.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That’s right, libs are blaming Trump for cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in the NWS for the deaths in the Texas floods.

The problem is these cuts don’t even happen for months.

Liberals are 100% evil.



To be clear, the "cuts" being cited are not only minimal and target bloat, not effective services, but they do not go into effect until October. As for any prior staff cuts (NOAA was in the process of cutting 10 percent of its staff), there is likewise no evidence that those hampered the forecasting of this event. Yet, even a California state senator is repeating the lie because he believes it helps him politically. The NWS could have a trillion-dollar budget, and it would have put out the same forecast.

As the Death Toll Rises in Texas, Democrats Choose to Be Black-Souled, Evil Ghouls

Heartbreaking updates on the Texas flood tragedy and political responses. Empathy is needed.

redstate.com

Instead of enriching their donors with the rural broadband boondoggle, they could have paid for Star Link for every rural customer in Texas

 

[my2¢]

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Sadly, that's the absolute truth in how politics is played these days. Avoiding responsibility and pointing fingers are specialties of the partisans in protecting their turf.

 

[hjmick]

There truly are no depths of ghoulish depravity that those scumbags won't plumb.

******* assholes...

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Truly...


MAGA Congressional Candidate Calls Texas Floods ‘Fake’: It’s ‘Murder’

...Kandiss Taylor, who is running to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives, posted on X Saturday: “Fake weather. Fake hurricanes. Fake flooding. Fake. Fake. Fake...”