Comment on As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas; Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses w/local emergency manager

reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, we know that the NWS produced the warnings about an hour in advance, that the staff who communicate with local officials had been fired, that Texas abused their emergency alerts on phones so people largely disabled them, and that local politicians were unwilling to invest in a local alert system because of anti-tax sentiment. You actually need to fix all of those

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