The New York Times and their so-called experts are blaming DOGE cuts at the National Weather Service and Climate Change on the disastrous flooding in Texas that led to scores dead and dozens missing.

 
Except none of this is true at all. The AP destroyed the idea that this was because of ‘staffing’:

The National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storms, Runyen said.

Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff.

“There were extra people in here that night, and that’s typical in every weather service office — you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over,” Runyen said.

 
Furthermore, the NWS did its job with warnings at least 12 hours before the devastating floods, according to Meteorologist Chris Martz on X:

Okay. Let’s talk some facts.

The Camp Mystic flood disaster in Texas is very unfortunate, and I hope that all of the missing girls are found.

The usual suspects are exploiting this tragedy to score political brownie points. Some left-wing activists are blaming this flood on “climate change,” others are blaming the deaths and missing persons on inadequate warning caused by low staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS) caused by Trump administration federal RIFs. ✂️

First of all, staffing cuts played no part in this tragedy. ????‍♂️

The NWS issued a flood watch for Kerr County more than 12 hours ahead of the flood. They also issued a flash flood warning for Hunt and Ingraham THREE HOURS before the Guadalupe River began to climb. There was plenty of lead time with respect to the forecast and issuance of warnings.

The flood was caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry becoming embedded into a broad mid-level trough over central Texas. These remnant lows are typically slow-moving and drop heavy rain over a large geographical area where the troposphere destabilizes. ????️

This particular one stayed quasi- (fairly) stationary, and caused massive flooding along the Guadalupe River, something that has happened many times before. In 1987, a flash flood on the same river killed 10 teenage campers from the Pot O Gold Christian Camp, with another 33 swept away who survived. ????️

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Camp Mystic is built on a floodplain. It is on sediment that has been deposited by hundreds, if not thousands of floods over the last millennium.

The event has nothing to do with climate change.

And, the tragedy had nothing to do with DOGE cuts.

If you are someone who has exploited this catastrophe because you just don’t like Trump, you need to take a serious look in the mirror.

There you go. Once again the despicable ‘Paper of Record’ exploits a tragedy because they hate Trump.