Interested in people's opinions on this. Sounds like they were notified.
They massively missed the amount of rainfall. They expected a fairly typical flood event, not 20 feet of water in an hour.
As someone who knows nothing about the NWS, would they have gotten it right or at least closer if they didn't have funding cuts? Also to be clear, I don't support cutting their funding, just wondering if this was unavoidable.
That pic is from r/conservative. That's like looking for accurate history on a .ml community. These fucking clowns would deny being struck by lightning if a Republican told them to.
I live in the Texas panhandle, which was not subject to the flooding rains. They still got everything wrong, though. Not four hours ago, they said my area wasn't going to get any rain. Guess what? Heavy rain right fucking now.
But... They're right? The NWS did send out a warning shortly after 1AM. It was local emergency officials who dropped the ball and didn't pass on the warning until 7AM.
Is everyone just too far in their bubbles now that they reject whatever actually happened in favor of whatever narrative their side of the internet made up?
I hate it here.
It is from there. I've been checking them out lately. I want to see what the left vs right are saying on these things to get a better idea of what's going on.
I wanted to verify if the alert was sent or what was bullshit. Everything is so split between right vs left now that I think it's much easier to bullshit on both sides.
I've recently started noticing how much less accurate the left is on things. I have a feeling that back in the day when both sides intermixed more if it helped fact check things better. So now I'm spending more time trying to go back and forth between the two to find out what the details are.
Psychotic rightist Nazi ghouls calling the left “beyond deranged” is completely on brand with their abject mental degeneracy.
They cheer and shrug their shoulders when blue states suffer, but get violently ass damaged when they receive the same treatment when nature suddenly decides to show them that their god is useless.
Thoughts and prayers, Lone Star State. Now put those bootstraps to use, and pull for all it’s worth.
Yea it's a real missed opportunity to post all the vile shit said wherever they play that fucking game. Especially their politicians.
I’m not angry. I’m deeply disappointed.
there is no such thing as "that's just life"
This boils me to no end.
Of fucking course there isn't, stupid numpty! Things happen for reasons! If we actually use our brains and figure those reasons out instead of being a simple minded fool who just goes "welp, it is what it is, no point in thinking critical about the things around me" then just maybe we can improve things for everyone!
Fuuuuuuck I hate stupid people. I pity them. Yes, it isn't their fault, as I said things happen for reasons, they were born into material circumstances and their loved experiences were hijacked by forces beyond their control specifically created to manipulate them instead of enriching them, but I also abhor their existence.
There is "thats just life". Grandma got cancer with no major risk factors? Just life. The tornado hit town instead of jumping it? Just life.
All sorts of shit's just life, but also a lot of "just life" can happen a hell of a lot less. Better health and safety standards mean less grandmas get cancer, and better access to Healthcare means more of them will go into remission. Dealing with climate change will mean less averse weather events, or at least not rapidly increasing numbers of them.
Conservatives get stuck on the fact that bad shit is always gonna happen, and so they don't notice that it didn't used to happen fucking constantly
My mom's philosophy: Life isn't fair.
My philosophy: Life's as fair as people make it.
She's the type to see issues and say, "Someone should do something about that." I'm the type to respond with, "You are someone. You should do something."
Thank fuck my dad's not that way. When he sees an animal stuck in a road, he pulls over and rescues them. He came home one day with three baby bunnies that he found in a highway median, swaddled in his shirt. My mom would've seen the rabbits, thought, "That's so sad, someone should rescue them," and kept driving.
Regardless of the NWS, this is a climate change event that will continue to happen, and there are many idiots in Texas that don't believe in global warming.
Reading the comment threads on news outlets, they are literally claiming it was HAARP weather manipulation. Chemtrails, cloud seeding, etc.
They will come up with the most delusional nonsensical shit before they ever admit they were wrong to back a political party that denies the existence of climate change, and defunds the national service to predict the weather.
Interested in people's opinions on this. Sounds like they were notified.
They massively missed the amount of rainfall. They expected a fairly typical flood event, not 20 feet of water in an hour.
As someone who knows nothing about the NWS, would they have gotten it right or at least closer if they didn't have funding cuts? Also to be clear, I don't support cutting their funding, just wondering if this was unavoidable.
That pic is from r/conservative. That's like looking for accurate history on a .ml community. These fucking clowns would deny being struck by lightning if a Republican told them to.
I live in the Texas panhandle, which was not subject to the flooding rains. They still got everything wrong, though. Not four hours ago, they said my area wasn't going to get any rain. Guess what? Heavy rain right fucking now.
But... They're right? The NWS did send out a warning shortly after 1AM. It was local emergency officials who dropped the ball and didn't pass on the warning until 7AM.
Is everyone just too far in their bubbles now that they reject whatever actually happened in favor of whatever narrative their side of the internet made up?
I hate it here.
It is from there. I've been checking them out lately. I want to see what the left vs right are saying on these things to get a better idea of what's going on.
I wanted to verify if the alert was sent or what was bullshit. Everything is so split between right vs left now that I think it's much easier to bullshit on both sides.
I've recently started noticing how much less accurate the left is on things. I have a feeling that back in the day when both sides intermixed more if it helped fact check things better. So now I'm spending more time trying to go back and forth between the two to find out what the details are.
Psychotic rightist Nazi ghouls calling the left “beyond deranged” is completely on brand with their abject mental degeneracy.
They cheer and shrug their shoulders when blue states suffer, but get violently ass damaged when they receive the same treatment when nature suddenly decides to show them that their god is useless.
Thoughts and prayers, Lone Star State. Now put those bootstraps to use, and pull for all it’s worth.
Yea it's a real missed opportunity to post all the vile shit said wherever they play that fucking game. Especially their politicians.
I’m not angry. I’m deeply disappointed.
This boils me to no end.
Of fucking course there isn't, stupid numpty! Things happen for reasons! If we actually use our brains and figure those reasons out instead of being a simple minded fool who just goes "welp, it is what it is, no point in thinking critical about the things around me" then just maybe we can improve things for everyone!
Fuuuuuuck I hate stupid people. I pity them. Yes, it isn't their fault, as I said things happen for reasons, they were born into material circumstances and their loved experiences were hijacked by forces beyond their control specifically created to manipulate them instead of enriching them, but I also abhor their existence.
There is "thats just life". Grandma got cancer with no major risk factors? Just life. The tornado hit town instead of jumping it? Just life.
All sorts of shit's just life, but also a lot of "just life" can happen a hell of a lot less. Better health and safety standards mean less grandmas get cancer, and better access to Healthcare means more of them will go into remission. Dealing with climate change will mean less averse weather events, or at least not rapidly increasing numbers of them.
Conservatives get stuck on the fact that bad shit is always gonna happen, and so they don't notice that it didn't used to happen fucking constantly
My mom's philosophy: Life isn't fair.
My philosophy: Life's as fair as people make it.
She's the type to see issues and say, "Someone should do something about that." I'm the type to respond with, "You are someone. You should do something."
Thank fuck my dad's not that way. When he sees an animal stuck in a road, he pulls over and rescues them. He came home one day with three baby bunnies that he found in a highway median, swaddled in his shirt. My mom would've seen the rabbits, thought, "That's so sad, someone should rescue them," and kept driving.