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The National Weather Service shared a timeline of alerts sent ahead of catastrophic flooding in Texas after an NYT report questioned whether staffing shortages may have made it harder for forecasters to coordinate responses with local emergency management ...
More than 100 people were killed in the flooding that overtook the Hill Country and other parts of Central Texas during the Fourth of July weekend.
The finger-pointing has already begun after the Texas floods, with some Dems blaming Trump budget cuts aimed at the National Weather Service for the catastrophic death toll — yet even experts who are administration critics saying they weren’t a factor.
While search efforts continue for the few missing in the Texas Hill Country, state officials met to evaluate the response to the deadly July 4 flood.
They cited a Houston Chronicle investigation that found UGRA declined to fund the improvements despite having millions of dollars in reserves.
Texas Flooding: Timeline of NWS alerts. Several people have raised concerns about how much warning people in Central Texas had before devastating flooding in areas like Kerrville.