Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧As the #Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent
Opinion - Zeynep Tufekci
July 9, 2025
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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[as usual, independent thinking from #ZeynepTufekci ]
"What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced."
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#NationalWeatherService #DOGE #emergency
