Over 100 Texans DEAD At The Hands Of Trump After Cuts To Weather Service And Massive Flooding
This is what they voted for. Via DailyBeast/NYT:
Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed 24 people. NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Trump administration in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy, losing approximately 600 staffers. After the cuts, the agency—which was already understaffed—began to prepare to offer “degraded” forecasting services, facing “severe shortages” of meteorologists, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times in April.
The worthless forecast from the gutted NWS said there could be 6 inches of rain, but the thunderstorms actually dumped close to 11 inches in the area where everyone died. Whoops.
Note that this is only the beginning, because the upcoming hurricanes and lack of funding for NOAA will wipe out hundreds of people across the southern red states. All the low-income MAGAts are probably better off dead, given that Trump and the GOP just took away their health insurance, and they’d have no way to receive medical care after being hurt in a storm anyway.
When they finish the body count in Texas, it’ll probably be close to 60 dead (update: it’s over 100 dead as of early Monday morning). They’re at 43 now, via KENS in San Antonio, Texas:
