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Texas officials are pointing fingers at the National Weather Service for not accurately predicting the severity of the torrential rains that hit early Friday morning:
Texas officials provided search and rescue updates Friday on a flash flood that has killed at least 24 people and left some 25 others missing, blaming National Weather Service forecasts for not predicting “the amount of rain that we saw” after facing federal budget and staffing cuts, according to W. Nim Kidd, director of the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
Not mentioned here is that the NWS didn’t gut itself. The department is now dangerously understaffed thanks to Donald Trump’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency.”
But local Kerr County officials seem to have their own share of blame.
While the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning at 1:14 a.m. for portions of that area, it would be hours before the city and county’s Facebook pages posted their initial urgent directions for residents from local authorities.
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