HollsHulseyJul 6
Peter Gleick
The National Weather Service did its job in Texas, with advanced warnings even in the middle of the night.
If officials want better warnings, Congress and Trump shouldn't be dismantling NOAA, the NWS, weather and climate research, and new models, monitoring, and technology.
Jul 5 at 9:58pmWeb
Show threadCarolannieJul 5

@petergleick If officials don't have a way to act on warnings in the middle of the night in a flash flood plain, it's on them. I know, at least in Colorado, when such warnings go out, the cops on duty at night got busy, called people in, and went out to warn campers.

The expectation that NWS could give exact precip rates is...I don't know, bad? The notion that this was much worse than anyone could have predicted seems to elude the public.

Show threadYvonne ‘looks undocumented’Jul 5
@carolannie @petergleick I was lying in bed this morning reading about this tragedy. The absolute horror of water rising 26 FEET in 45 minutes is mind-boggling—my bedroom is on the 2nd floor of my house, 26 feet would have washed the entire house away!
How do people prepare for that? how can there ever be “enough warning” for such disasters?
Show threadCarolannieJul 5
@grammasaurus @petergleick timeliness is important. Given a few hours (say from 1 AM to 5 AM) quite a few people could potentially have moved out of harms way, such as campers in campgrounds, and so forth.
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShellJul 6

@petergleick

But but Lutnik said future consolidation and central data processing will be better.

Show threadNick Silkey🎙️N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧Jul 6
@petergleick "but think of the shareholders." These dudes wanna rent seek nature existing. lmao.
Show threadAndreas KJul 6
@petergleick Sorry, had to think about the ugly happening last year (was it last year) in Valencia, Spain, where an ultra-conservative, climate change denying regional government (think state government) sent the disaster emergency response team (just established by the government before) packing ("unnecessary government spending"), and a year later Valencia got flooded by 500mm rain in less than 8 hours. And no emergency warnings. 224 deads.