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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure it was Trumps fault when it flooded in 1936, 1952, 1972, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1991, and 1997 right?

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Of course Trump didn’t cause the flooding, but by cutting NOAA he could have possibly saved those children. Climate change initiatives are also off the table with the BBB. Tommy Tuberville is on tape saying that Americans should lose green jobs. Add in the soon-to-be elimination of FEMA and Trump is putting American lives in danger.

If white Christian girls don’t sway the GOP, nothing will. [/quote]

DP.  This article states that many flood warnings were sent out - by the National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA.  And your last sentence?  Shame on you.

An initial flood watch — which generally urges residents to be weather-aware — was issued by the local National Weather Service office at 1:18 p.m. Thursday.

It predicted between 5 to 7 inches (12.7 to 17.8 centimeters) of rain. Weather messaging from the office, including automated alerts delivered to mobile phones to people in threatened areas, grew increasingly ominous in the early morning hours of Friday, urging people to move to higher ground and evacuate flood-prone areas, said Jason Runyen, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/texas-officials-face-scrutiny-over-response-to-catastrophic-and-deadly-flooding/ar-AA1I3MV7?ocid=BingNewsSerp[/quote]

It is evident at this point that the main finger pointing should be directed to county officials who completely dropped the ball on any of the warnings. [b]It didn't help that key positions at the NWS stood vacant.[/b][/quote]

The bolded has nothing to do with this flood.  All alerts were sent out and the NWS was fully staffed.

The National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storms, Runyen said.

Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff.

“There were extra people in here that night, and that’s typical in every weather service office — you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over,” Runyen said.[/quote]

While flood warnings were sent out, the old time staffers knew the people in the county to contact...that institutional knowledge was lost and as a result, communications that might have happened without Trump, didn't happen at all.[/quote]

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