Were Warnings Too Late Or Too Weak?
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Topline White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday fired back at suggestions that staffing shortages at the National Weather Service or problems with emergency alert systems impacted the response to the deadly Texas floods over the July 4 holiday weekend—but Texas state officials and others have questioned their effectiveness after the disaster. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said blaming the Trump administration’s cuts for … More exacerbating the disaster was a “despicable lie.” Getty Images Key Facts One high-profile public official in Texas placed early blame on the early NWS forecasts for failing to predict the severity of the storm—“listen, everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service,” Texas Division of Emergency Management chief W. Nim Kidd said at a press conference Friday, noting “it did not predict the amount of rain that we saw.” A New York Times report published Saturday then detailed staffing shortages at the NWS offices in San Antonio and San Angelo, but representatives for the NWS employees union told CNN the offices had “adequate staffing and resources.” The San Antonio office was missing a warning coordination meteorologist, a role that works with officials to send emergency alerts, after the office’s 32-year veteran meteorologist took an early retirement offer earlier this year as part of the Trump administration’s move to downsize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, local station KXAN reported. The National Weather Service, however, issued alerts of increasing severity ahead of the flash flood, which included an overnight text alert warning of a “dangerous and life-threatening situation.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised the NWS, but said President Donald Trump wanted to improve the NWS’ warning system, telling reporters at a press conference “we needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government for…
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