Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."
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Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."
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I'm afraid these disasters will happen more & more & the federal government will help less & less, both before & after. That's Donald's plan. youtu.be/XT0wpT_62OM
A new flash flood started @ 3:30pm today in The Village of Ruidoso in New Mexico. There was 7 inches of rain in less than an hour, the ground is burn scarred from recent forest fires, this was a recipe for disaster. Hoping there was a warning & everyone is safe. Been there, sad to see this happen. 😟
Ted Cruise cut NOAA. bsky.app/profile/thet...
GUARDIAN: “Before his Grecian holiday, Cruz ensured a reduction in funding to the NOAA efforts to improve future weather forecasting of events that cause the sort of extreme floods that are being worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The death toll from the recent Texas floods over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 110, with over 160 people still missing, primarily in Kerr County." Texas flood rescue teams continue to search for more than 160 missing people as death toll climbs www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-f...
"Inability to respond," or just failure to act - "warning fatigue"? Local official (in "God Guns Trump" hat) admitted he'd ignored FF warnings on his cell... Most catastrophic events turn out to have multiple contributing factors. See for example balancedweather.substack.com/p/latest-on-...
It's all part of the plan man. Project 2025's "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Now do the FUCKING fact That our nightly weather service in Jackson KY was ended the night before the tornado that killed 19. No warning ‼️ our services were closed. We’re poor, who cares. We made history … and no one noticed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_So...
You need a senior manager at one level in the weather service to convince the political administration to do something. When the manager job is vacant and the politicians are looking to make job cuts especially if anyone mentions climate change. There is unlikely to be anyone to say it is a disaster