She blames “previous administrations” for failing to upgrade older systems. She seems to forget that Trump was among them.
She means Biden and Obama, and Trump’s cultists will make that connection.
It really is remarkable how literally every single thing that is bad is somehow someone else’s fault.
I still remember Rubio on ABC explicitly saying that he believes everything bad happening in the world was because of Biden.
Yeah, which party do the congress fucks that oppose spending money on modernizing belong to? But Fox won’t draw that connection for their viewing public.
Trump tried to cut NOAA funding by billions over the first administration, but Congress basically kept funding steady.
NOAA isn’t under homeland security, so who knows why Numbskull Noem even talked about it.
Why didn’t they ask her if this was going to affect her ability to meet the arrest quota for illegals? Or if the weather response would take eyes off the border allowing the cartels to use this distraction to increase fentanyl shipments?
At least give her the proverbial rope to hang herself with questions in her own purview.
I’ve got to admit, I was a bit confused by this headline, because I’d heard that despite cuts to NOAA, the usual flood alerts were given and Texas officials were lying about that.
The article clarifies that a bit:
Former and current NWS employees have defended the agency’s response, as have meteorologists across the country. NWS’s Austin/San Antonio office—which covers the region— issued a flood watch on Thursday afternoon, followed by flash flood alerts that night into Friday morning.
However, the office’s warning coordination meteorologist took an early retirement offer in April as part of NOAA’s personnel and budget cuts, which were part of DOGE’s efforts to slash government “waste.” The position still hasn’t been filled, and according to the department’s website, the office currently has six additional vacancies. That vacancy may have delayed urgent communication with local officials.
It also sounds like the Trump admin isn’t going to change their plans for NOAA:
Unfortunately, NOAA’s recently released 2026 budget plan would shut down multiple NOAA labs, including the decades-old National Severe Storms Laboratory, which is crucial in researching and developing storm prediction technology, including hurricane forecasts. These cuts were outlined in Project 2025, with Russell Vought—Trump’s OMB Director—writing that he wanted to gut NOAA because the agency is responsible for “climate alarmism.”
I have to agree, knowing the facts about how rapidly the climate is changing does lead to alarm.
One thing I wonder is how seriously people take the flood warnings.
Most of the time if it is raining at all, I get the various flood warnings. I could imagine people underestimating those.
I recall quite a bit being made of how overtly grim, specific, and certain the Katrina warning was and how that may have helped set it apart from the usual “warning”
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Thanks for that write up, very informative about what went down.
I wonder about having different alert sounds. The one alert sound I barely think to take seriously. I read them and I think I would notice unique phrasing, but I also imagine people are tempted by the ability to turn off emergency alerts as they seem a bit overused.
I think she has brain worms. Or her stylist is really angry with her.
The worms run the govornment
This is why they want the chickens dead. Can’t let them eat all the worms
Lord save us, it’s all part of the birdflue industrial complex
If this becomes a real problem for Taco (doubt it will, though), she’ll be fired in about .2 Scaramuccis.
This is technically somewhere between 48-52.8 hours.
A Mooch is not an exact measurement of time.
Has anyone within the media asked what SPECIFIC “ancient” systems she means, in detail, and exactly HOW they had an impact? And have her be as detailed as possible in her answer? And if she tries that “two weeks” bullshit that Taco does all the time, they should openly laugh in her face, by the way…
I hate it when people in any context just spew out some jargon to create a smokescreen, most especially when it comes to tech.
Let them fight.
