Re: Severe flooding in Kerr County

On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:16:37 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Severe flooding

Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to
have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in
place to help prevent these tragedies."

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ltce2x6vsu2g

Texas Officials Slam Trump's National Weather Service for Botched
Forecast

Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service
(NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed at
least 27 people.

NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Department of
Government Efficiency in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy,
losing approximately 600 staffers.

After the cuts, the agency--which was already understaffed--began to
prepare to offer "degraded" forecasting services, facing "severe
shortages" of meteorologists, according to an internal document
obtained by The New York Times in April.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-officials-slam-donald-trumps-national-weather-service-for-bad-forecast/