Posted on 07/07/2025 2:23:16 PM PDT by DFG
The finger-pointing has already begun after the Texas floods, with some Dems blaming Trump budget cuts aimed at the National Weather Service for the catastrophic death toll — yet even experts who are administration critics saying they weren’t a factor.
Foes of President Trump are claiming budget cuts by the White House hampered the federal weather agency’s ability to issue life-saving warnings in time.
But reviews by experts, the NWS’ own timeline of the steadily escalating warnings the federal agency issued before the flooding disaster hit — and the fact that the budget cuts aren’t supposed to take effect until Oct. 1 — have debunked the assertion.
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“Flash Flood Warnings were issued on the night of July 3 and in the early morning of July 4, giving preliminary lead times of more than three hours before warning criteria were met.”
Even as the warnings piled up, local officials said they had difficulty knowing whether to give the evacuation order.
“Why didn’t we evacuate? Well, evacuation is a delicate balance, because if you evacuate too late, you then risk putting buses, or cars, or vehicles or campers on roads, into low water areas, trying to get them out, which then can make it even more challenging,” Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice told CNN’s Pamela Brown on Monday.
“It’s very tough to make those calls, because what we also don’t want to do is cry wolf,” he said.
County officials had weighed installing a warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River in 2017 but decided against it due to costs, the New York Times reported. The county had lost out on a $1 million grant at the time that was supposed to at least help fund the project.
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The Democrat motto:
Never let a dead body go to waste.
Who left the sewer lid open where these Dem’s crawled out from?
The fact that kids were still missing and the dead unburied as they hurried to cast blame is what disturbed me most. Many X posts saying Texas and her voters deserved it. Leftists are scum.
plenty of warnings were announced with plenty of lead time, but local emergency “officials” dithered about evacuation orders until it was too late ...
They especially love dancing on dead children
Flashfloods happen without warning... That’s why they call them ‘flashfloods’... If you knew about it before hand... It would be called is a ‘flood’. Period!
And this is a great case in point for why Deep State has a real mad-on for the free exchange of info and ideas on the internet.
Check out the bit about the church bus.
People have short memories.
I have been reading that as well, I loathe them with all of my being. They are the epitemy of evil, soul-less entities with evil blood. They need to be rid of and fast!
Democrats are SCUM!!
EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM!!
Truths are starting to come out of the woodwork. I know what I think about this.
https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/1942326608435540478
Leftists are nothing but bullies, spoiled brats, lowlifes and pigs.
Thank you for the link.
very sobering.
DEI hire made people DIE.
The Antagonist left it open
you just insulted pigs.
“you just insulted pigs.”
Right....pigs are useful...they make bacon.
Marko
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