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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MAGAs didn't care about NOAA or the NWS until this weekend. [/quote]

Republicans take everything the government does for granted, and doesn't miss it until it's gone and too late.[/quote]

This narrative you're trying to spin about NOAA/NWS is pure propaganda.  There were no staffing issues and they sent out one alert after another.  You people need to get a grip.

[b]At 4:03 a.m., the office issued an urgent warning that raised the potential of catastrophic damage and a severe threat to human life.[/b]

Jonathan Porter, the chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, a private weather forecasting company that uses National Weather Service data, said it appeared [b]evacuations and other proactive measures could have been undertaken to reduce the risk of fatalities.[/b]

“People, businesses, and governments should take action based on Flash Flood Warnings that are issued, regardless of the rainfall amounts that have occurred or are forecast,” Porter said in a statement.[/quote]

It's no propaganda.  Yes, NWS still did its job to the best of its ability but its an absolute fact that they and other agencies have lost significant staff, funding and other resources, which puts the nation at risk.[/quote]

So now that it’s been demonstrably proved that the NWS did have a full staff on had, plus extra personnel, AND issued alerts ([i]which it seems were largely ignored[/i]) prior to the flooding, so NOW the narrative is changing.

Now it’s [i]“govt agencies have been reduced in size and budget and more things like this will happen because of that[/i]”….. Despite it being clear to everyone now that this flooding tragedy occurred with an over-staffed local NWS office that issued alerts well before the flooding started.

You people are sooooo invested in making this about Trump you’ll twist anything into all manner of narrative-pretzel if you think it sounds deceptive enough to be convincing.

You people are the opposite poll of Brietbart or other RW groups, and you’re every bit as lacking in credibility and integrity. [/quote]

The issue was that the staff who was there didn't have the institutional knowledge and people at the county level didn't heed the warnings and take actions. If the one meteorologist who left for retirement hadn't, the right people at the county level would have been notified early enough to do something about it. That is still on DOGE.[/quote]

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