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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours ago

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours ago
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DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

Mastodon bots which mirror the NWS warnings back them up

What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.

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    Most states know how. Just not Texas.

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      You know whats big about texas?? Death tolls due to natural disasters they can’t prepare for

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        And death tolls due to school shootings the cops wait outside for.

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        Death tolls due to natural disasters they can’t prepare for

        Well they can, they choose not to.

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      But they can everyone in Brownsville know that someone shot a cop in the panhandle.

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        Almost like people flee to Mexico after committing a crime.

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          People in Texarkana get the same alerts. They’re statewide. It has nothing to do with Brownsville particularly. I just picked someplace far away from the panhandle.

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