Texas weather offices were understaffed ahead of the floods because of Trump cuts, a Trump voter feels betrayed after his wife was detained by ICE, and Elon Musk creates a new political party
I can't speak for anyone else but I don't trust him. However, I support his petty disguised as redemption and empathy. I wish he would spill the tea about how he modified the machines.
Dee, unfortunately I really don't think it will make any difference. As he said years ago, he could murder someone in times square and they'll still vote for him.
Agreed, those in the Biden Administration should be held accountable for the devastating floods in Carolina. Where was Biden? Where was FEMA?, Why did FEMA stop locals and charity groups from helping. SHAME ON YOU AARON: FAKE NEWS the NWS provided a timeline for the warning, which shows they had issued a flood warning on July 3 and additional warnings 3 hours before the flash floods. In addition, they had extra staff on due to the potential of major flooding. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/national-weather-service-alert-timeline-texas-flooding/3879084/
You are full of horse manure. Please quit spreading lies about Pres Biden. He was there, FEMA was there. Where are you getting your facts from? Biden made sure they had everything they needed. the rapist in chief has stopped any other funding. Get your facts straight
Aaron Parnas doesnot spread fake news. I think you are spreading bull crap. Get your facts straight. Wow you trumpers really live in your own made up reality.
Wow! Not only did you drink the cyanide, you've been sucked into the right-wing echo chamber. (I am not sure why you are talking about Biden. He is no longer president.) The NWS was not fully staffed before the floods. There were enough to issue timely warnings, but they were missing key leadership. They didn't have a science officer or a warning coordinator meteorologist. The NWS can send warnings, but it has no control over whether people heed them. How many times have you heeded NWS warnings? We blow them off. We don't know if NWS knew the magnitude of the flooding. NWS cannot control the speed and scale of the floods. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in less than an hour. That would wipe towns off the map. Three hours is not enough time to coordinate an evacuation. And it was the middle of the night. The Mystic River camp notifications were sent via text and email. There is much more information than you're link provides. Perhaps you could try thinking for yourself, ask yourself some questions, and research the answers instead of being told what to think.
That was the minimum time; the initial warnings were nearly 12 hours earlier. They had doubled staff numbers watching the storm. 100% agree NWS or anyone else for that matter, would have struggled to predict 26 foot rise in 45 minutes. Research right back at you,
Yes, that would be awesome as we know the Obamas and Biden, Justice Roberts [or someone with the same name] went to the island, plus P Diddy, Tom Hanks, just to name a few, BUT NO Donald Trump.
Let's be real. Trump isn't sweating anything. People have literally died because of that SOB and his willfully blind supporters have proven, time and again, there's NOTHING he can do that they will find repugnant.
He might as well let the Epstein files be released. No one's going to do anything to him.
SHAME ON YOU AARON: FAKE NEWS the NWS provided a timeline for the warning, which shows they had issued a flood warning on July 3 and additional warnings 3 hours before the flash floods. In addition, they had extra staff on due to the potential of major flooding. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/national-weather-service-alert-timeline-texas-flooding/3879084/. Any Trump cuts don't start until the next fiscal year in September.
Becca, same here. I prefer that Musk let it be known that his Starlink system or his employee hackers tampered with the voting machines. The issue is that he would be admitting he committed a crime.
A hand count should have been completed. We cannot be nice about this. The Trump administration is ruthless. We must demand hand counts on all ballots. There is a lawsuit going on in Rockland County; the litigators are requesting all voter data. I've attached the article here:
Other countries automatically conduct recounts in such situations. There were numerous reasons to suspect the 2024 election results. Seems that everything the Democrats did or failed to do was designed to give the presidency back to Trump. There's a sense of betrayal.
I'm for this new party if it would split the Republican Party. It would be nice if Liz Cheney & Adam Kinzinger also formed a new party & ran together. And then finally progressives break from the Democratic Party & join with progressive Independents & the various progressive minor parties like the Greens, Progressives, Socialists, Working Families Party & Peace & Freedom Party to form their own new coalition party.
It would be fascinating to see what Fox Media would do with this "America Party." Talk about splitting the Republicans . . . it would be rending the fabric of right wing extremist media.
Me tooooo!! I’m thinking maybe he can admit it then leave the country lol 😆 These 3 articles are CRAZY! The first one especially, explains how they did it, Palantir was even involved! 3 part article series about election tampering.
I made this video yesterday along with some others. I don’t think anyone with common sense trusts him. Interesting that MAGA is commenting that they like him though lol https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6J6pGcG/
Because they’re idiots who think being rich means you’re smart and can make others rich. They don’t realize it means he’s robbing you to get richer. SMH.
But not to HIS government contracts & tax payer funded substadies. Just everyone else's. He's a greedy billionaire who helps no one but himself. The richest man in the world who took food & medicine away from the poorest people in the world resulting in deaths from starvation & disease. And he's proud of it.
I was thinking that as well. It may help our side win. I still don’t think we will ever have fair and free elections while Trump is in office. Especially since he commented he wants free and fair elections. It’s always the opposite of what he says. He can’t get out of the White House until he passes away. He’ll likely go to prison. I the way he is destroying America. He has no intention of leaving. He’s probably also grooming somebody to slide into his place.
Why would anybody trust Trump? These are questions the public have questioned conservative voters since 1015. If it splits the republican vote 50-50 it sounds good to me! Go America Party Go! 😜
For a party that prides themselves on taking personal responsibility lacks taking any responsibility when it comes to issues related to trump. It’s mind boggling
Nothing, and now they are putting children and “pregnant females” they don’t say women. Females are what slavers call women. But that’s getting off topic. So no, all those people will die.
This concentration camp will not survive a hurricane nor will the prisoners being held there survive. And the Republican regime will just say "oh, well." It's probably all part of their evil plan.
I live in Switzerland where we believe in global warming and legislate (pretty much) accordingly. I have been sickened by Trump's stance, or lack thereof, on climate change. One reason this flood was so devastating is that there is so much more moisture in the air as a result of evaporation due to more heat. Spain, too, recently experienced it's most severe flash floods ever. But the USA has traditionally been one of the world's biggest polluters. And stubborn, stupid Donald Trump exited the Paris Climate Accords, supports selfish oil tycoons, undercuts subventions for clean energy, etc., etc., etc. I am very angry because these policies hurt the USA AND the whole world. The results are tragic for all, as the tragedy in Texas demonstrates.
Biden has cancer. When you have cancer as serious as his - you fight the cancer and embrace your family. Millions of us have been surprised to find out we have/had serious cancer.
Biden’s legacy will be averaged by history and a power greater than us. Who controls the weather?
that's true. I just hate the fact that trump is tarnishing his legacy which, while not perfect, was a hell of a lot better than anything trump has to offer.
Trump is a gaslighting narcissistic blah blah blah. - blaming Biden it makes Trump sound WEAK to people not in the cult. When the cult tries to Blame Biden to ANYONE not in the cult, that’s how people will react More and More.
- Trump has been President for 6 months. Just like the CEO of A MAJOR CORPORATION the buck now stops with Trump.
The Senate and House were cutting off the Trump appointees when they tried to blame Biden. “Biden isn’t the President!” “PLEASE answer the my question - how much.are you requesting for the BUDGET ?”
Doesn’t work in Real Life CORPORATIONS, don’t let MAGA whine about Biden now,
The AMERICAN TAXPAYERS EXPECT to receive sufficient notice about potential flash floods to evacuate their loved ones. The Television stations and in this case emergency broadcast system should have been blasting out warnings.
That is what the TAXPAYERS expect.!!
People died - now like any other negligent death - find out why!
The answer is simple... Musk & his doge hackers fired 100's of experienced people & force retired more people without replacing key positions at NOAA & the National Weather Service. The Texas flood & deaths are a glimpse of what will continue to happen if not replaced.
Yes. If you want an example of what happened at NOAA, which I don't have the heart to check, look up HHS online. They are practically bragging about how many of their administration they fired. There are blue heads, not photos, for over half.
Yeah, Elon, that really works with vital government agencies. What a fool pretending to be an "autistic genius." Musk is a lot like Trump in that his pathology has been enabled for far too long with our tax $$$, just like Daddy Trump did with Donald, pulling his heel spurs out of the fire, over and over.
This is all part of the plan of Trump & his masters at Project 2025 & Putin, who all hate America & want to kill as many people in America as they can get away with & destroy everything that is good in America. It's the only way to adequately explain the policies they've implemented. Everything that the Big Bad Brutal Bill cut or eliminated was things that help people. Everything that it added or increased harms this country.
I agree which is why, up till now, he has taken the higher road, but i think it's time to fight fire with fire because stupid MAGA believes everything coming out of trump's mouth.
He will always blame Biden no matter what. FEMA is needed as well NOAA. This area is flood prone. That river floods and has many times. Communication is hard.
That's the crazy part. If you look at any of the meteorological post-mortems by actual experts (Balanced Weather, the Eyewall, etc.), the NWS functioned as normal. All the weather balloons went up when they were supposed to. The staffing was not the issue. They warned the people in charge of weather and warnings that this was likely to happen around 6 pm the day before. The "imminent danger" weather alert was pushed to people's cell phones around 1:15 am, but reception is spotty out there, and if people weren't paying attention... The existing models for these types of situations perform poorly until it's right on top of you. The NOAA cuts will have devastating impact on research that could prevent these tragedies in the future, but they didn't lead to the tragedy we saw this week.
I know. I live in Oklahoma. We need those reports. Weather is a crap shoot at best. A flood like this is a changing situation in minutes. Unfortunately in a remote area communication is spotty. I myself was in a flood situation where all the precautions I was taking changed within a minute. For people who don’t know what is happening up stream you are at a loss. This is so tragic. We need FEMA and NWS and NOAA. We have paid taxes for these things. We want them. What we don’t need is billionaires running everything
My jaw dropped when hearing of all the deaths in Texas. I truly believe our current administration doesn't give a care of what happens in these events. We know the truth the policies and cut backs are what are bringing more tragedy to us than any other in recent years. Devil's advocate I know Biden wasn't the best but I never seen where we cut so much workforce under these admins as we have with Trump
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.
Jonathan Porter, the chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, a private weather forecasting company that uses National Weather Service data, said it appeared evacuations and other proactive measures could have been undertaken to reduce the risk of fatalities.
“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.
Local officials have said they had not expected such an intense downpour that was the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.
“We know we get rains. We know the river rises,” said Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county's top elected official. “But nobody saw this coming.”
Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said he was jogging along the river early in the morning and didn't notice any problems at 4 a.m. A little over an hour later, at 5:20 a.m., the water level had risen dramatically and “we almost weren't able to get out of the park,” he said.
*** Rice also noted that the public can become desensitized to too many weather warnings.
No county flood warning system: Kelly said the county considered a flood warning system along the river that would have functioned like a tornado warning siren about six or seven years ago, before he was elected, but that the idea never got off the ground because of the expense.
It sounds like there were also no preliminary measures at all. I am thinking about what we had during Helene here in WNC - FEMA and National Guard were on the ground even before the worst of it started. So, as bad as it was, the moment it was possible to go in - they were ready to go in and they did. In this case, it doesn't sound like there was ANYONE in place to jump in and help out the moment it was possible to do so.
I think the problem in having people on the ground was the speed in that the river rose - 20 feet in an hour! Local support arrived by 7am and the Texas National Guard a few hours later.
After noticing the river had dramaticly risen did the city manager notify anyone?? The mayor, emergency services? Or did he just go home?
I saw a weather report from CBS Austin. The weather man showed a map with probable rainfall from 5 to 14.5 inches in the large area. Then he poopoo'd it and went to a "more likely senerio" that showed .5 to 1.5 inches of rainfall & said that was much more likely. That was 2 days before the rain/flooding. Looked to me like that weatherman is an alternate facts guy & didn't want to believe what the National Weather Service forecast said. Wonder how many other local TV/radio station weather people ignored it?
Why would anyone trust Elon to be the head of a new political party after they saw what he did with DOGE? 🤔
I can't speak for anyone else but I don't trust him. However, I support his petty disguised as redemption and empathy. I wish he would spill the tea about how he modified the machines.
Yes, but it would be horrifying. I want him to spill the Epstien Files. That's got trump daddy sweating.
Dee, unfortunately I really don't think it will make any difference. As he said years ago, he could murder someone in times square and they'll still vote for him.
The definition for 'murder' should now be seen to include deaths resulting from the cuts to weather monitoring, FEMA, cancer research,
and elsewhere in the Unadministration.
And also what will happen at alligator Alcatraz 😥💔
Agreed, those in the Biden Administration should be held accountable for the devastating floods in Carolina. Where was Biden? Where was FEMA?, Why did FEMA stop locals and charity groups from helping. SHAME ON YOU AARON: FAKE NEWS the NWS provided a timeline for the warning, which shows they had issued a flood warning on July 3 and additional warnings 3 hours before the flash floods. In addition, they had extra staff on due to the potential of major flooding. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/national-weather-service-alert-timeline-texas-flooding/3879084/
You are full of horse manure. Please quit spreading lies about Pres Biden. He was there, FEMA was there. Where are you getting your facts from? Biden made sure they had everything they needed. the rapist in chief has stopped any other funding. Get your facts straight
You're so right!
Sad,but true
It will just slide off him like everything else.
SHAME ON YOU AARON: FAKE NEWS the NWS provided a timeline for the warning, which shows they had issued a flood warning on July 3 and additional warnings 3 hours before the flash floods. In addition, they had extra staff on due to the potential of major flooding. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/national-weather-service-alert-timeline-texas-flooding/3879084/
Aaron Parnas doesnot spread fake news. I think you are spreading bull crap. Get your facts straight. Wow you trumpers really live in your own made up reality.
Wow! Not only did you drink the cyanide, you've been sucked into the right-wing echo chamber. (I am not sure why you are talking about Biden. He is no longer president.) The NWS was not fully staffed before the floods. There were enough to issue timely warnings, but they were missing key leadership. They didn't have a science officer or a warning coordinator meteorologist. The NWS can send warnings, but it has no control over whether people heed them. How many times have you heeded NWS warnings? We blow them off. We don't know if NWS knew the magnitude of the flooding. NWS cannot control the speed and scale of the floods. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in less than an hour. That would wipe towns off the map. Three hours is not enough time to coordinate an evacuation. And it was the middle of the night. The Mystic River camp notifications were sent via text and email. There is much more information than you're link provides. Perhaps you could try thinking for yourself, ask yourself some questions, and research the answers instead of being told what to think.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/national-weather-defends-flood-warnings-00082
That was the minimum time; the initial warnings were nearly 12 hours earlier. They had doubled staff numbers watching the storm. 100% agree NWS or anyone else for that matter, would have struggled to predict 26 foot rise in 45 minutes. Research right back at you,
Yes, that would be awesome as we know the Obamas and Biden, Justice Roberts [or someone with the same name] went to the island, plus P Diddy, Tom Hanks, just to name a few, BUT NO Donald Trump.
Elon, is that you?
Let's be real. Trump isn't sweating anything. People have literally died because of that SOB and his willfully blind supporters have proven, time and again, there's NOTHING he can do that they will find repugnant.
He might as well let the Epstein files be released. No one's going to do anything to him.
SHAME ON YOU AARON: FAKE NEWS the NWS provided a timeline for the warning, which shows they had issued a flood warning on July 3 and additional warnings 3 hours before the flash floods. In addition, they had extra staff on due to the potential of major flooding. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/national-weather-service-alert-timeline-texas-flooding/3879084/. Any Trump cuts don't start until the next fiscal year in September.
You are the worse Spammer, get a grip.
So you're OK with Aaron misconstruing the truth when 70 people have now died just so he can attack Trump. Maybe the shame is your shame.
Becca, same here. I prefer that Musk let it be known that his Starlink system or his employee hackers tampered with the voting machines. The issue is that he would be admitting he committed a crime.
I believe it happened. Couldn't figure out why Democrats didn't want a hand count. After all Trump still says he won 2020.
A hand count should have been completed. We cannot be nice about this. The Trump administration is ruthless. We must demand hand counts on all ballots. There is a lawsuit going on in Rockland County; the litigators are requesting all voter data. I've attached the article here:
https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-results-lawsuit-documents-2091077
Other countries automatically conduct recounts in such situations. There were numerous reasons to suspect the 2024 election results. Seems that everything the Democrats did or failed to do was designed to give the presidency back to Trump. There's a sense of betrayal.
I'm for this new party if it would split the Republican Party. It would be nice if Liz Cheney & Adam Kinzinger also formed a new party & ran together. And then finally progressives break from the Democratic Party & join with progressive Independents & the various progressive minor parties like the Greens, Progressives, Socialists, Working Families Party & Peace & Freedom Party to form their own new coalition party.
Jamie, love your ideas and thought process. Cheney and Kinzinger would be a great pair to run the country. I'm all for it.
It would be fascinating to see what Fox Media would do with this "America Party." Talk about splitting the Republicans . . . it would be rending the fabric of right wing extremist media.
The dems are seriously apathetic or Harris team was. The dems are still sleeping and wondering what went wrong.
Me tooooo!! I’m thinking maybe he can admit it then leave the country lol 😆 These 3 articles are CRAZY! The first one especially, explains how they did it, Palantir was even involved! 3 part article series about election tampering.
Part 1
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the?r=2vb0xx&triedRedirect=true
Part 2
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-ii-seven-judges-direct?r=2vb0xx&triedRedirect=true
Part 3
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-iii-the-devil-is-in?r=2vb0xx&triedRedirect=true
Elon should deploy recovery assistance to Camp Mystic.
Me too. How did he help Trump win? He said he doesn't believe in empathy so I will have no empathy for him.
I made this video yesterday along with some others. I don’t think anyone with common sense trusts him. Interesting that MAGA is commenting that they like him though lol https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6J6pGcG/
It remains to be seen whether this will simply be a "vote as Leon says" party. Though I have my suspicions.
Well with our government subsidizing his starlink its no wonder the pandering is empowering him to seek more…
I wondered the same thing. Can you imagine the millions of votes he could steal? He could set it up to have anyone become President.
Exactly. He wants to control the system. That's all.
No shit huh wtf
Because they’re idiots who think being rich means you’re smart and can make others rich. They don’t realize it means he’s robbing you to get richer. SMH.
Great question. I wouldn't trust him with a goldfish.
Just like Republicans his party is going to be full of Ruzzian agents.
Right. And he wants more cuts.
But not to HIS government contracts & tax payer funded substadies. Just everyone else's. He's a greedy billionaire who helps no one but himself. The richest man in the world who took food & medicine away from the poorest people in the world resulting in deaths from starvation & disease. And he's proud of it.
I’m not sure it would be about trust but more about disrupting the Trump administration
I was thinking that as well. It may help our side win. I still don’t think we will ever have fair and free elections while Trump is in office. Especially since he commented he wants free and fair elections. It’s always the opposite of what he says. He can’t get out of the White House until he passes away. He’ll likely go to prison. I the way he is destroying America. He has no intention of leaving. He’s probably also grooming somebody to slide into his place.
And his nazi salutes?
Also a poor businessman
Yep. Exactly. Even without what he did to Doche. Why would anyone ever trust another republican.?
"Doche" sounds like a crazy hybrid of DOGE and DOUCHE.
Hahaha. You were the first person to catch my typo. See what happens when you use speech to text and don’t doublecheck yourself? 😜
Yeah. I use that emoji a lot myself. ;)
He is a literal NAZI so… NO.
No, we don't need an alternative Yhatzee party
Because right-wingers are just plain stupid. "When people show you who they are, believe them" is over their heads.
Why would anybody trust Trump? These are questions the public have questioned conservative voters since 1015. If it splits the republican vote 50-50 it sounds good to me! Go America Party Go! 😜
Exactly. Why is he even here?🤦🏼♀️
And they’ll still make excuses for Trump. Watch.
Yep, somehow they’ll find a way to blame Biden and democrats
Greg Abbott blamed the NWS but said it wasn’t the GOP’s fault.
Incredible
For a party that prides themselves on taking personal responsibility lacks taking any responsibility when it comes to issues related to trump. It’s mind boggling
They don’t take accountability for anything. It’s always someone else’s fault.
Abbott is a w0rm.
He’s worse than that
Then whose fault is it....it is your state, your people...thinking you might want to look in the mirror
It was in the forecast https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16cBgHdoaC/
Already did.
They already have!!!
Their go to bs
Always
Because it’s all Biden’s fault!
Always biden’s fault…or Obama’s 😂
True!
Count on it.
Told yall they’ll still make excuses for him. 😂 I can’t with these comments. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6JhMro5/
Trump is responsible for all those deaths!!
🙄We haven’t even hit hard core hurricane season yet. Wouldn’t be great if Mar Largo, or whatever the hell he calls it, was wiped out by a hurricane 🤗
When Florida hurricane season rolls around, whats going to keep Al.Alcatraz from being blown away and flattened?
Nothing, and now they are putting children and “pregnant females” they don’t say women. Females are what slavers call women. But that’s getting off topic. So no, all those people will die.
Already flooded
This concentration camp will not survive a hurricane nor will the prisoners being held there survive. And the Republican regime will just say "oh, well." It's probably all part of their evil plan.
Same magic that keeps Mar-a-Lago safe from hurricanes & Trump from any accountability.
Not a thing. It's just big kennels under tents. But there are alligators and huge snakes in the water.
And huge disease carrying, and giant mosquitoes.
I live in Switzerland where we believe in global warming and legislate (pretty much) accordingly. I have been sickened by Trump's stance, or lack thereof, on climate change. One reason this flood was so devastating is that there is so much more moisture in the air as a result of evaporation due to more heat. Spain, too, recently experienced it's most severe flash floods ever. But the USA has traditionally been one of the world's biggest polluters. And stubborn, stupid Donald Trump exited the Paris Climate Accords, supports selfish oil tycoons, undercuts subventions for clean energy, etc., etc., etc. I am very angry because these policies hurt the USA AND the whole world. The results are tragic for all, as the tragedy in Texas demonstrates.
Hes probably got a policy against it and has a private meterologist
True
That would be AWESOME.
If the other tenants know that God has a target on that place, they would evict him immediately.
And landed at alligator alley!
This is all trumps fault, if he and doge hadn't git rid of news they might have been warned earlier. This is so sad
Biden needs to sue trump and norm for slander.
Biden has cancer. When you have cancer as serious as his - you fight the cancer and embrace your family. Millions of us have been surprised to find out we have/had serious cancer.
Biden’s legacy will be averaged by history and a power greater than us. Who controls the weather?
that's true. I just hate the fact that trump is tarnishing his legacy which, while not perfect, was a hell of a lot better than anything trump has to offer.
Trump is a gaslighting narcissistic blah blah blah. - blaming Biden it makes Trump sound WEAK to people not in the cult. When the cult tries to Blame Biden to ANYONE not in the cult, that’s how people will react More and More.
- Trump has been President for 6 months. Just like the CEO of A MAJOR CORPORATION the buck now stops with Trump.
The Senate and House were cutting off the Trump appointees when they tried to blame Biden. “Biden isn’t the President!” “PLEASE answer the my question - how much.are you requesting for the BUDGET ?”
Doesn’t work in Real Life CORPORATIONS, don’t let MAGA whine about Biden now,
The AMERICAN TAXPAYERS EXPECT to receive sufficient notice about potential flash floods to evacuate their loved ones. The Television stations and in this case emergency broadcast system should have been blasting out warnings.
That is what the TAXPAYERS expect.!!
People died - now like any other negligent death - find out why!
The answer is simple... Musk & his doge hackers fired 100's of experienced people & force retired more people without replacing key positions at NOAA & the National Weather Service. The Texas flood & deaths are a glimpse of what will continue to happen if not replaced.
Yes. If you want an example of what happened at NOAA, which I don't have the heart to check, look up HHS online. They are practically bragging about how many of their administration they fired. There are blue heads, not photos, for over half.
Yeah, Elon, that really works with vital government agencies. What a fool pretending to be an "autistic genius." Musk is a lot like Trump in that his pathology has been enabled for far too long with our tax $$$, just like Daddy Trump did with Donald, pulling his heel spurs out of the fire, over and over.
This is all part of the plan of Trump & his masters at Project 2025 & Putin, who all hate America & want to kill as many people in America as they can get away with & destroy everything that is good in America. It's the only way to adequately explain the policies they've implemented. Everything that the Big Bad Brutal Bill cut or eliminated was things that help people. Everything that it added or increased harms this country.
He's so much better than that.
I agree which is why, up till now, he has taken the higher road, but i think it's time to fight fire with fire because stupid MAGA believes everything coming out of trump's mouth.
Our govt isnt focusing on the true waste fraud and abuse. Sad thing is that we are paying for the shitty policies.
Make America Grieve Again.
Waiting for him to blame President Biden for all of this
Just left a TX FB pg...already happening
Not surprising. Disappointing but not surprising.
He will always blame Biden no matter what. FEMA is needed as well NOAA. This area is flood prone. That river floods and has many times. Communication is hard.
That's the crazy part. If you look at any of the meteorological post-mortems by actual experts (Balanced Weather, the Eyewall, etc.), the NWS functioned as normal. All the weather balloons went up when they were supposed to. The staffing was not the issue. They warned the people in charge of weather and warnings that this was likely to happen around 6 pm the day before. The "imminent danger" weather alert was pushed to people's cell phones around 1:15 am, but reception is spotty out there, and if people weren't paying attention... The existing models for these types of situations perform poorly until it's right on top of you. The NOAA cuts will have devastating impact on research that could prevent these tragedies in the future, but they didn't lead to the tragedy we saw this week.
I know. I live in Oklahoma. We need those reports. Weather is a crap shoot at best. A flood like this is a changing situation in minutes. Unfortunately in a remote area communication is spotty. I myself was in a flood situation where all the precautions I was taking changed within a minute. For people who don’t know what is happening up stream you are at a loss. This is so tragic. We need FEMA and NWS and NOAA. We have paid taxes for these things. We want them. What we don’t need is billionaires running everything
Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this (preventable) tragedy
This sadly goes under the heading of FAFO. All Republicans are frankly responsible for all these preventable deaths.
This is devastating news. Trump and administration need to be accountable for this tragedy.
Sad for the children!!
My jaw dropped when hearing of all the deaths in Texas. I truly believe our current administration doesn't give a care of what happens in these events. We know the truth the policies and cut backs are what are bringing more tragedy to us than any other in recent years. Devil's advocate I know Biden wasn't the best but I never seen where we cut so much workforce under these admins as we have with Trump
As an engineer that performed root cause analysis for many years - here is what I believe is the central cause - not the NWS:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/other/texas-officials-face-scrutiny-over-response-to-catastrophic-and-deadly-flooding/ar-AA1I2pX1?ocid=socialshare
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.
Jonathan Porter, the chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, a private weather forecasting company that uses National Weather Service data, said it appeared evacuations and other proactive measures could have been undertaken to reduce the risk of fatalities.
“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.
Local officials have said they had not expected such an intense downpour that was the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.
“We know we get rains. We know the river rises,” said Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county's top elected official. “But nobody saw this coming.”
Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said he was jogging along the river early in the morning and didn't notice any problems at 4 a.m. A little over an hour later, at 5:20 a.m., the water level had risen dramatically and “we almost weren't able to get out of the park,” he said.
*** Rice also noted that the public can become desensitized to too many weather warnings.
No county flood warning system: Kelly said the county considered a flood warning system along the river that would have functioned like a tornado warning siren about six or seven years ago, before he was elected, but that the idea never got off the ground because of the expense.
It sounds like there were also no preliminary measures at all. I am thinking about what we had during Helene here in WNC - FEMA and National Guard were on the ground even before the worst of it started. So, as bad as it was, the moment it was possible to go in - they were ready to go in and they did. In this case, it doesn't sound like there was ANYONE in place to jump in and help out the moment it was possible to do so.
I think the problem in having people on the ground was the speed in that the river rose - 20 feet in an hour! Local support arrived by 7am and the Texas National Guard a few hours later.
😪 I bet they didn't think of what expense it would cost in terms of lost lives.
They never think because they have no brains
Completely agree! And down the road I can't imagine the amount of lawsuits that the County of Kerr will face.
After noticing the river had dramaticly risen did the city manager notify anyone?? The mayor, emergency services? Or did he just go home?
I saw a weather report from CBS Austin. The weather man showed a map with probable rainfall from 5 to 14.5 inches in the large area. Then he poopoo'd it and went to a "more likely senerio" that showed .5 to 1.5 inches of rainfall & said that was much more likely. That was 2 days before the rain/flooding. Looked to me like that weatherman is an alternate facts guy & didn't want to believe what the National Weather Service forecast said. Wonder how many other local TV/radio station weather people ignored it?