Posted on 05/20/2025 8:44:44 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Officials are hoping to set the record straight that, despite recent cuts, the National Weather Service was not hindered from forecasting this weekend’s deadly storms.
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The Jackson NWS office *was* fully staffed.
Multiple tornado warnings *were* issued and were issued timely. And of course those warnings triggered alerts on every mobile device, radio station, TV station, etc. and set off the warning sirens.
So false not even Andy Beshear is going along with it.
https://www.youtube.com/live/92eIr2-vnxQ?si=RiVKasM_bvD8-55T&t=4836
There's a live stream of weather from the night of the storm - you can see the warnings do indeed get issued timely - that storm was tornado warning across the whole state without any gaps. These people are unbelievable.
What exactly did they think the money would have done? Reenact the movie twister?
What else would they say?
In the highlighted comments on the report they are claiming there was no staff, no warnings issued, etc. and people died because of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
All completely false. It was fully staffed, and warnings were indeed issued (as you can see in the livestream archive linked the comment).
Well nothing should surprise us at this point - yet we should not become numbed to it and just let them get away with it.
Here’s the reality of tornados; they can issue warnings all they want. Most people, myself included, will have no option but to hope it doesn’t hit them, it’s weak and causes little damage, or that they’ll just get lucky. I have no fall out shelter. In my small house there is no room that does not have an exterior wall. Getting on the road to run is stupid. If the tornado hits my house I may very well die and there’s nothing to be done. The whole discussion is borderline ridiculous.
Some folks just didn’t prepare, ignored the warnings.
When will people learn that you are your own best guarantor of your personal safety.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I’m beginning to think that folks in that situation and who have transportation, who are given enough time, should evacuate away from the storm instead of attempting to shelter in place.
Government will likely never recommend that because they don’t want the blame or the liability if someone gets harmed in the evac.
But government does that for hurricanes. And, on rare occasions, more people are harmed in the bug out than by the storm.
Folks need to be responsible for their own safety.
And if they think bugging out is the way to minimize their risk from a tornado, they have a plan ahead of time, then that is something to consider.
Usually there is too little warning for tornado warnings for that kind of evaluation - 30 minutes tops...and even in a moderately populated area that could cause serious bottlenecking.
Part of the problem is that it was midnight or later and many people had just gone to bed thinking it was just another thunderstorm.
I was watching a Lexington TV station and the weathermen saw it coming for quite some distance and told people how to prepare.
“I’m beginning to think that folks in that situation and who have transportation, who are given enough time, should evacuate away from the storm instead of attempting to shelter in place.”
Well, if every time a strong thunderstorm forms you hit the road, okay, but...where are you going to go to make sure you don’t get into one instead of away from one? These aren’t hundred yard events. They’re hundreds or even thousands of miles wide events. A few years ago I had radar indicated tornadoes literally all around me. We’re talking hundreds of square miles. Tornadoes are too sporadic to try to run every time there’s a warning.
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