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Still AT LEAST 41 people missing...and those are the known ones.

Our condolences to the families involved.

.... A NOAA budget document for the coming fiscal year would eliminate funding for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the National Severe Storms Lab, both .... doing vital research and modeling of severe weather. But billionaires get a tax break. 🤷🏻‍♀️

To date; 79 people dead, 11 campers still missing. 🚨 If you are still searching for a loved one in Texas, please call the Red Cross at 1-800-733-2767 for more information.

Wheels is unable to comprehend English. We should have literacy tests for these fucking morons.

remember Trump and his minions cut the NOAA budget in order to give tax breaks to the upper 1 percent

guy in charge of area that flooded so tragically claimed in carefully worded statement weather reports never said would rain hard in his particular area. But if his area is downstream of areas predicted to receive torrential downpours, where did he expect that water to go? ‘I take no responsibility’

Damn. Only, like, one person in these comments actually read the article. That's embarrassing, dude.

GOP just can't acknowledge that they FAILED these residents. THEY FAILED.

Wasn’t the NWS recently downsized?

Hot Wheels partying while people were drowning is another part of the problem.

Garbage headline NPR. You can, and should!, do better.

God rest their souls and may their families find peace.

We shouldn't just blame them, IMO. We should identify the root cause why warnings were either not delivered or not heeded, and then advocate for the issue to be fixed. That's the best way to separate "us" from "them." We try to fix a problem while they call for thoughts and prayers.

Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were empty, and some experts questioned whether staffing shortages had contributed to the disaster.

Abbott and DOGE own this disaster… gutting a system that could have warned people caused this.

It’s unthinkable in a country with the best tech, best experts, best emergency services that this flash flood would be undetectable. Trump, Musk, Vance, Noem. This is now criminal negligence. This is now manslaughter. #uspol

He is never responsible. “I’ll tell you, if you look at that, what a situation that all is. And that was really the Biden setup. That was not our setup,” Trump added. “But I wouldn’t blame Biden for it, either. I would just say this is a 100-year catastrophe, and it’s just so horrible to watch.”

Everybody dies.

State and local officials, who've repeatedly made it clear they think science is for losers. This is the unfortunate result. That even now, NPR carries water for these clowns might be just as sad.

Thoughts and prayers. 😐

So a failure of communication at the local level!

GOP environmental policies contribute to these disasters, and their political policies ensure the government is ill prepared to meet these new realities. Now the question is will the media finally start to hold them responsible, or continue to let them deflect blame with just thoughts and prayers.

Maybe DOGE shouldn’t have dismantled NOAA…. Just a thought.

The clodhoppers will never understand this was self inflicted.

Republicans blaming themselves ultimately; what a conundrum they have put themselves into. They don’t know they are blaming themselves; they are in charge of the Federal and State Government NOW - LOL!

And Abbott just sucks up to Trump on camera constantly.

No climate change make more money.

The ONLY reason we are second guessing this is because Trump, Musk and DOGE fired everyone at NOAA to prove experts don’t matter and are too expensive. This is just the beginning of second guessing, with bird flu, measles, whooping cough, RSV and a destroyed economy to face next.

☠️Trump guts the weather office and fema then still plays golf ⛳️ when disaster hits

Well, uh… There it is

"According to the NWS, duties of a warning coordination meteorologist include acting as a liaison to public safety officials, including emergency managers, and providing government officials with information on severe weather."

"The NWS lost nearly 600 workers earlier this year, but last month the agency said it was beginning to hire over 100 employees to "stabilize operations" following a backlash to the staffing shortfall."

"Some critics have questioned whether the storm's deadly impact was made worse by the Trump administration's ongoing effort to shrink the federal workforce, including job cuts at the NWS and its parent organization, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)."

The Republicans Serving in the House and Senate,Allowed the Trump Administration To Cut Funding For NOAA and National Parks Our Crown Jewel. These are Services that the American people Depend On To Protect and Serve.They put LOYALTY to Trump Over Working For The People.WE MUST HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!

At least MAGAs are filling up alligator Alcatraz today...that makes up for the catastrophic flood disaster due to trump, in Texas.

And MAGAs are swearing this tragedy will not alter their project 2025 agenda. They still think if MAGAs don't hear about extreme weather from global warming, they have nothing to worry about. MAGAs will downplay all catastrophies to convince MAGAs it's not that bad.

The camp has been there since around 1920. It is only one of many campgrounds, RV parks, housing developments, etc. all along the river. The camp director died Friday night trying to save some of the children.

Kinď of hard to keep ignoring that Cuts in Weather Services----->Natural Weather Disater--->Many Deaths connection. No matter how Trump admin and cronies try to talk it away.

Here’s a Texas Longhorns fan nailing it on the Orangebloods website, more than 12 hours before the flood. The first reply, ouch