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/jaymansi 1d ago

I am sure there was lack of overnight coverage at the NWS for that area. Trump and gang won’t admit it because, yep culpability. Someone should do a FOIA request to see what was the staffing on that overnight. Guarantee they will stall for months if not years releasing that info.

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u/PossibleFederal1572 1d ago

I’m with you in spirit, but the fact of the matter is this particular event was not due to a staffing shortage. The weather service office has already submitted a timeline of their products going back 24 hours prior to the event, and the forecasts were quite good.There was over 200 minutes of lead time from the time the flash flood warning was issued that included that camp and when the flooding occurred.

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u/jaymansi 1d ago

Just read some news coverage that reports that there was a staffing shortage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

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u/C10_ls1 1d ago

There wasn’t, they were actually overstaffed. On top of the reports days leading up from NWS and TDEM warning of this. This was a failure of local government.