When any sort of natural disaster happens while Donald Trump is president, the left will try their hardest to come up with a narrative that blames him for whatever went down. It’s absurd, really, blaming a person, particularly a national politician, for an act of nature, but then again, Democrats are the party attempting to normalize underage gender mutilation so I guess we shouldn’t be too shocked.
A number of professional meteorologists, experts in the field of weather, are offering significant push back against Democrats and members of the mainstream media who are suggesting the deadly floods that took place this weekend killing 80 people are due to President Trump’s funding cuts to the National Weather Service.
Weather experts have already debunked the claims of Trump’s critics in the days since the Guadalupe River rose more than 30 feet in mere hours, that the handful of layoffs by the Department of Government Efficiency is to blame for the delayed warnings to a Christian girls camp. The camp, located outside of San Antonio, took a direct hit in the flood, leaving dozens of people dead and many others missing.
via Trending Politics News:
One of the most prominent media voices to blame Trump was ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, who reported on Saturday that “there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Service’s offices in the region.” While it’s true that staffing shortages at the NWS were roughly double the number before Trump took office, Texas meteorologists confirmed that they were receiving regular communication with the agency.
“The NWS forecasting offices were operating normally at the time of the disaster,” said Greg Waller, service coordination hydrologist with the NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center in Fort Worth, Politico reported.
“We had adequate staffing. We had adequate technology,” Waller continued. “This was us doing our job to the best of our abilities.”
Snuffleupagus Stephanopoulos isn’t exactly a credible member of the media. In fact, he was sued by President Trump in December 2024 for inaccurate reporting, which resulted in ABC News donating $15 million to Trump’s presidential library. No shock something he reported would be false.
Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, told the Texas Tribune that the current staffing levels were “adequate to issue timely forecasts and warnings before and during the emergency.”
The AP stated in its report that “a series of flash flood warnings in the early hours Friday before issuing flash flood emergencies — a rare alert notifying of imminent danger,” beginning Thursday afternoon. Those broadcasts “grew increasingly ominous in the early morning hours of Friday,” culminating in a 4:03 a.m. message warning of “the potential of catastrophic damage and a severe threat to human life.”
The Department of Homeland Security fired back at the allegations the NWS was understaffed in a series of social media posts that featured a number of those messages.
Popular weatherman Ryan Maue, who has a PhD in meteorology from Florida State University referred to Stephanopoulos’ reporting as “grotesque misinformation.”
“NWS in Texas had extra staff on duty and did their jobs admirably, as always,” Maue posted on Sunday.
Even Matt Lanza, a journalist who has been critical of the Trump administration’s cuts to NWS and NOAA, begrudgingly admitted on Saturday that they were unrelated to the disaster that unfolded overnight.
“In this particular case, we have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that current staffing or budget issues within NOAA and the NWS played any role at all in this event. Anyone using this event to claim that is being dishonest. … In fact, weather balloon launches played a vital role in forecast messaging on Thursday night as the event was beginning to unfold. If you want to go that route, use this event as a symbol of the value NOAA and NWS bring to society, understanding that as horrific as this is, yes, it could always have been even worse,” he said in a piece for The Eyewall.
Public officials are pointing out that local residents rejected a proposal for an emergency broadcast system due to its cost, which is definitely part of the reason for this tragedy.
Rob Kelley, a top elected official in Kerr County, Texas, spoke with the media saying that seven years, he made a proposal for a nighttime warning system that would be similar to the one used to alert locals about tornadoes.
“The public reeled at the cost,” he revealed.
Well, there’s probably a whole lot of regret about that decision going around at the moment. Pray for those who lost loved ones.
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