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  • Flood Factoid - Weather Service DID Issue Warnings - But Nobody Listene

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 6 20:15:16 2025
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    Looks like the NWS issued at least five flash flood
    warnings, including three 'extreme/emergency'-level
    ones, before the giant flood hit in Texas.

    Thing is, nobody near the river was listening, or
    at least not paying any attention.

    Sorry, Trump didn't castrate the weather service,
    it was still doing its thing.

    Oh wait - if K had been elected they could just
    'beamed out' everybody in a 20 mile area, right ?

    It's a human psychology problem here, often seen.
    "Warnings"/"Alerts" are a dime a dozen. Soon
    nobody even hears them anymore because 99.99% of
    the time nothing will happen (to you). They will
    turn off their phones and radios, flip to the
    porn channel.

    Between that, and that the really bad stuff
    started after midnight, well ....

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  • From chine.bleu@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 6 21:12:54 2025
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    c186282 wrote:
    Looks like the NWS issued at least five flash flood
    warnings, including three 'extreme/emergency'-level
    ones, before the giant flood hit in Texas.

    Thing is, nobody near the river was listening, or
    at least not paying any attention.

    Did NWS warn the correct people?

    Sorry, Trump didn't castrate the weather service,
    it was still doing its thing.

    Did Don Jello fire the guy who knew who to warn?
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  • From Gronk@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 9 23:09:30 2025
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    c186282 wrote:
    Looks like the NWS issued at least five flash flood
    warnings, including three 'extreme/emergency'-level
    ones, before the giant flood hit in Texas.

    Thing is, nobody near the river was listening, or
    at least not paying any attention.

    Sorry, Trump didn't castrate the weather service,
    it was still doing its thing.

    Oh wait - if K had been elected they could just
    'beamed out' everybody in a 20 mile area, right ?

    No, the NWS wouldn't have been gutted.

    It's a human psychology problem here, often seen.
    "Warnings"/"Alerts" are a dime a dozen. Soon
    nobody even hears them anymore because 99.99% of
    the time nothing will happen (to you). They will

    But magats will be the first to scream if there
    weren't alerts.

    turn off their phones and radios, flip to the
    porn channel.

    So that's what you do...

    Between that, and that the really bad stuff
    started after midnight, well ....

    Well what? Sirens don't take time off.

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  • From chine.bleu@21:1/5 to Gronk on Thu Jul 10 01:42:33 2025
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    Gronk wrote:
    It's a human psychology problem here, often seen.
    "Warnings"/"Alerts" are a dime a dozen. Soon
    nobody even hears them anymore because 99.99% of
    the time nothing will happen (to you). They will

    But magats will be the first to scream if there
    weren't alerts.

    I ignore tsunami alerts because only small part of the wave can fit
    through the Golden Gate, and then has to refract around San Francisco,
    and then through miles of shallow water and salt water marshes.

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  • From chine.bleu@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Thu Jul 10 21:24:20 2025
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    Governor Swill wrote:
    On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 23:09:30 -0600, Gronk<[email protected]d>
    wrote:

    c186282 wrote:
    Looks like the NWS issued at least five flash flood
    warnings, including three 'extreme/emergency'-level
    ones, before the giant flood hit in Texas.

    Thing is, nobody near the river was listening, or
    at least not paying any attention.

    Sorry, Trump didn't castrate the weather service,
    it was still doing its thing.

    Oh wait - if K had been elected they could just
    'beamed out' everybody in a 20 mile area, right ?

    No, the NWS wouldn't have been gutted.
    Neither the President or the NWS had anything to do with it. The NWS forecast was delivered, the risk was known, but as Texas voted down
    emergency alerts that would have saved those lives, the responsibility
    can only be with the Republican legislators who voted down that
    legislation.

    Several have since recanted, stating that in hindsight, they should
    have voted*for* the alert systems expansion instead of against it.


    We spent millions of years developping our muscular frontal lobes. These
    allow us to observe and create mental models. We can run these models
    under different conditions to predict how to achieve the best outcome.

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