I think they are.
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CrystalRaindrops — 9 months ago(July 06, 2025 12:10 AM)
No problem.
Kristi Noem blames the National Weather Service's "ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government for many, many years," saying Trump is "currently upgrading the technology" in the National Weather Service and NOAA (even though Musk/Trump fired a lot of the staff and cut their funding).
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CrystalRaindrops — 9 months ago(July 07, 2025 01:11 AM)
Yep:
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of Central Texas on Friday morning, prompting some experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the forecasting agency to coordinate with local emergency managers as floodwaters rose.
Texas officials appeared to blame the Weather Service for issuing forecasts on Wednesday that underestimated how much rain was coming. But former Weather Service officials said the forecasts were as good as could be expected, given the enormous levels of rainfall and the storm’s unusually abrupt escalation.
The staffing shortages suggested a separate problem, those former officials said — the loss of experienced people who would typically have helped communicate with local authorities in the hours after flash flood warnings were issued overnight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html