Posted on 07/05/2025 5:11:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A slow-moving storm that dumped more than a foot of rain in the Texas Hill Country has killed 27 people, with dozens more missing, and officials are saying they weren’t prepared because the National Weather Service got the forecast wrong.
Wonder if Donald Trump and Elon Musk laying off 600 National Weather Service staffers earlier this year could have had anything to do with that?
…Deadly flash floods are, unfortunately, not uncommon – 10 teens at a summer camp died during a flash-flood event from a storm that dumped 11 inches of rain in Kerrville in 1987, and 13 people died in flooding from a six-inch rainstorm in San Antonio just three weeks ago.
Which is to say, there’s a reason Texas Hill Country is also known as Flash Flood Alley.
…On the meteorologists, the National Weather Service isn’t talking, but you do have to wonder how much the mass layoffs ordered by DOGE, in line with the Project 2025 plan to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has eroded the ability of the NWS to keep on top of things.
The bulk of the staffers let go were specialized climate scientists and weather forecasters, and an internal document obtained by The New York Times warned that the agency was on the verge of offering “degraded” forecasting services because it was facing “severe shortages” of meteorologists.
In May, five past directors of the National Weather Service issued a letter warning that Trump’s cuts “leave the nation’s official weather forecasting entity at a significant deficit, just as we head into the busiest time for severe storm predictions like tornadoes and hurricanes.”
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life,” the directors wrote in that letter.
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Climate Scientists can’t fix the problem, but they are experts in fixing the blame.
Everybody knows it can happen in the hill country. Keep in mind, that every year, thousands of new people move to Texas, and the institutional knowledge and experience dilutes away.
Desantis is good at hurricanes. He’s got two per year
That does not give anyone the right to say Texas government is bad at disaster preparedness
It’s saying nothing
And nothing regarding g what exactly Texas government was supposed to manage this
If Texas could have done something I am not hearing what it is
How about if your going to camp out on the banks of those hill country rivers and streams, you keep an eye on the weather and water level yourself? Those of us who have lived in Texas all our lives use this method. And, hey, it works!
Kerr County doesn’t have a flood warning system. That needs to be fixed. It’s got nothing to do with forecasts. Meteorologists aren’t gods.
It’s over. You’re not explaining your comment regarding how the Texas govt failed in this situation.
Forget it
I heard there were around 700 souls at the camp. They should have had an evacuation plan with the history of flooding there (with fatalities, no less). Would it have made a difference? Don’t know.
I have one app, DFW Fox 4, on my cell phone and The Weather Channel on my computer. Funny how they don’t agree with each other. The other thing is if it starts off in the morning with a forecast of 100% rain why do they keep adjusting it until it’s down to 10% and then not a single drop of rain falls. I do a better job of forecasting just looking out of my window. Unfortunately, then when they are actually correct no one pays any attention. It’s not just me saying it. One of the people holding a briefing today said the exact same thing. He said it’s like the boy that cried wolf.
See @DesertRhino’s replies.
Unfortunately by 4am it was too late to evacuate over 700 young girls. The did a yeoman’s job but they couldn’t get to everyone. Over 700 girls were saved. Thank God for that.
what people I have known have endured in Texas natural disaster wise, in the recent past..It seems to be a state government incompetence or willfull negligence thing…playing at least some part. And it is important that partisanship not blind anyone to that.
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What kind of ‘partisanship’ blinding happened, with this tragedy?
Founder and editor of his own non-read paper. Wow
LOL ... no bias, there, either 😂
No.
I posted on another thread the updates NWS posted as the weather was developing .
The warnings and heads up were there
In addition to implementing sirens along the river, I have heard that reforesting is an option? https://www.cityforestcredits.org/carbon-credits/carbon-registry/central-texas-reforestation-2022/#:~:text=The%20Central%20Texas%20Floodplain%20Reforestation,water%20quality%2C%20and%20create%20critical
He is the owner and editor….
I am a war veteran and I manage situations in my job using logistics and details
In this situation explain to me how the Texas government was supposed to have fixed it
Or prevented it
And Hitler sleeping in with orders not to be woken up, killed a lot of people on D-Day.
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