“God bless the God of all the people who have passed.” The President of the United States, Donald Trump, resorted to religion to the situation that is tested in the center of Texas, with more than 80 dead people, a good secondary part and even disappeared, a dozen. “God be blessed by Texas. This is an incredible place, ”he said, before getting to the Air Force to return to the White House after he played golf in his field in New Jersey.
Less than a month ago, Trump announced that he plans to gradually analyze the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the federal body responsible for responding to situations such as the one that now lives in Texas. “We want to gradually reduce the powers of Fema and that they fall to the state level,” Trump said: “The governor should be able to manage it, and, frankly, if he cannot control the consequences (disasters), then perhaps he should not be a governor.”
The agency entered a hurricane season with a small amount of personal and without the necessary preparation, explained CNN: at least 10% of its employees left from the moment Trump returned to the White House in January, including a large part of his direction, and, according to estimates, the agency will lose about 30% of its labor force by the end of the year, which will reduce the FMA template from 26,000 by about 18,000.
Do they still plan to make out Fema? Journalists asked Trump, who avoided the answer: “This is what we will talk about later, but now they are busy, so we will leave it there.”
Do they consider that the reduction of the federal government, which left key vacancies in the National Meteorological Service or in extreme coordination, should have been done?
Do you think that the federal government should hire meteorologists again? They insisted: “I don’t know, I don’t think this happened in a matter of seconds. No one expected this, no one saw it. There people are very ready, and they did not see this. This is something, I think what is happening every 100 years, they have never seen anything like this … I mean, people are trying to blame school, in the camp. This”.
Trump explained that “probably” a trip to Texas on the next Friday: “I would have done it today, but probably it would interfere with them.”
The reduction in the meteorological service of Trump and the Department for the effectiveness of the government inflicted by the so -called government (DOGE) left the predicted offices of the National Meteorological Service (NWS) with a critical lack of personnel during a strong strong climate of this year, the guardian explained.
Despite the reduction of funds and the widespread lack of personnel generated by the Trump administration, NWS meteorologists, both in the local offices of San Angelo and in Austin/San Antonio, and in the specialized center of the NWS, responsible for excessive rains, released a series of warnings and warnings on days earlier on Friday.
The NWS source confirmed Guardian that the San Angelo forecasts, where the most intense rains passed, has two vacancies: a responsible meteorologist who heads each NWS office, and a hydrologist who helps to make decisions on flood threats. In addition, in the NWS office in Austin/San Antonio, the main responsibility for the Kerr district is not enough officer of coordination of the warning, a key position, the main function of which is contact for decision -making by local officials and wide public, especially during dangerous weather conditions.
Although it is unclear that the lack of personnel in the National Meteorological Service (NWS) complicated a preliminary notification that the local authorities received with inevitable floods are obvious that this is a difficult tragedy, such as climatic warming is becoming more and more frequent. Global warming that denies the Trump administration.
The combination of the circulation of hurricane Barry and global warming contributed to the creation of records of record atmospheric moisture in the center of Texas, in accordance with the global tendency to increase the humidity of the atmosphere, when the earth is heated and the air can maintain more water vapor, the guardian explains.
In any case, the National Meteorological Service warned on Thursday about possible floods and released a series of warning in the early hours of Friday, before releasing emergency floods, an unusual warning that notifies the inevitable danger. Local authorities said they do not expect such intensive rain, equivalent to rainy months in the area.
