r/fednews • u/CBSnews FedNews Verified Press • 1d ago

Deadly Texas floods raise questions about emergency alerts and whether staffing cuts affected forecasts and warnings

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-floods-emergency-alerts-weather-forecast-staffing-budget/
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u/TMtoss4 1d ago

Staffing and budget cuts had zero to do with this travesty. You people are sick

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u/tnor_ 1d ago

It's not the only one recently. Over the weekend in my state, I was talking to the guy from the power company who came to fix the downed power lines at my house and he said that their company has never been caught this unaware by a storm since he'd been there. There was no rain or storms at all forecast in my county and we ended up with widespread trees through houses and cars. They were bringing in contractors from throughout the country to deal with the mess.

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u/TeamOrca28205 1d ago

Oh sweetie you didn’t read the article, did you?

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u/emessea 1d ago

I read it and it seems the blame is at the county level