Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires, and Tornado Season Without FEMA

Yup.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...te-weather-data-hurricane-season/84415765007/

Why, you ask? That's easy. Because the administration the country voted in are corrupt and inept, and much like how they are cutting out science and health sources, the only information and data they want available is the misinformation they thrive on (and create/provide).

Much harder to convince people of stuff like, say, vaccine conspiracy bullshit when there's so much research showing it's bullshit. So you have to cut out and make people doubt all that research as much as possible.

Luckily for them (and unluckily for everyone else and the health of people in general), social media and right wing propaganda have already been on the job for a while now.

 

This one isn't on this administration per se. These satellites were being decommissioned and it was known that they would be going down. It doesn't sound like there were any replacements, so if anything, that's the failure here - there should have been replacements planned a decade ago.

 

sure, but they are still functional. cutting with no replacements is nonsensical. as usual, the small kernels of fact are used as cover for general ineptitude, or worse

 

No, they aren't really functional, or I should say, safely functional. They were supposed to reach end of life a decade ago, but were extended (amazingly for this long). The problem is if you keep these up there, at some point, they may fail which could lead to malfunction and uncontrolled descent. Earth's orbit is becoming congested, so the US has decided to properly decommission them and not leave them to chance.

 

and when does the decommission and removal take place? 'Aren't really functional' is a misdirection if they can still provide the necessary information *and* there is no viable replacement in place. Unless this descent is happening in conjunction, it's more an excuse than a plan.

Combined with the proposed NOAA cuts, trying to provide that rationality to the situation seems shaky at best. I can sort of understand the desire to give the benefit of the doubt in situations that seem illogical otherwise, but I don't know how many times people have to get burned before they learn there really is a fire.

 

Autocratic Rule #1 Control the Narrative and Media

 

Well, we just made the world a hotter place--and with it, accelerated every bad thing that is related to climate instability.

If you haven't already, it's time to start family/generational planning because we are on our own. Good luck to you all.

 

I don't think you fully understood what I said. They are functional, but they're at risk of failing and causing major issues. The DoD has a different reason (cybersecurity). You can read more about it in these links:

https://www.space.com/space-junk-collision-chinese-satellite-yunhai-1-02
https://spacenews.com/retired-military-weather-satellite-breaks-up/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7344746750940725248-5pQO

BTW, they’re pushing it out by one month. Sometimes, problems aren’t caused by intentional harm, but by a lack of planning and proper communicatio, which is what’s happening here.

Cuts to NOAA and not enough manpower to provide accurate, up-to-date forecasts is a real concern.

 

Putting this here because visitor's season at national park has always been a low-key rolling disaster that is rarely noticeable beyond NPS employees thanks to their hard work. Also because NPS employees frequently respond to local and national disasters.

So, I have questions. How do you prove you are not a foreign visitor? Do we need to carry passports and/or birth certificates to show the GS-3 seasonal working the park entrance booth? Will there be an ICE wagon at every park entrance?

Also, could we do more to discourage vacationers from other countries? The parks are a huge draw--not unusual to hear lots of German and Spanish and French and Japanese in the park restaurants during the summer. But given everything else and the reduction in park employees, it may help if there are significantly less visitors from abroad.

 

The deathtoll in CenTex is....

Totally blamed on MAGA

 

I understood it just fine i just don't think they give a ****. It is, like most things, using what bits of fact are involved in the situation to reverse engineer a justification for general ineptitude (or worse). Much like the DOGE cuts that hid behind general agreement that spending and waste can be reduced, when in reality oh it's just that they are absolutely incompetent (at best, though their motivations are often much worse).

'Pushing it out by one month' is exactly the kind of 'oh ****' scrambling that happens when actual experts warn about the ramifications of that incompetence.

Had their goal actually been to address the very real issue with aging equipment, they would have done it with a plan in place that made sense (like, say, not at the start of hurricane season). Instead what has happened is the reality of the situation collided with their burn it down goals and they decided these particular raised alarms they couldn't ignore.

 

MAGATs own this

 

short bus behavior

 

Don’t Look Up

 

Do you know the financials required to upgrade the equipment? Vs what was actually cut?

 

What is so hard about carrying ID with you wherever you go? A basic driver's license, voter ID or passport should be mandatory for travel. For identification purposes at the very least, if something should happen to you.

 

It may be easy for most people, but not for all. Older people who don't drive but have to renew their ID is an issue, particularly if they are in remote areas. People who work jobs where they are paid hourly and it costs money for them to miss work. These are also the people who can least afford to take time off. It's silly to require that when there isn't an issue if they don't.

 

@Reeko imagine sharing a country with these morons... lol

 

You are blaming this admin for something that has been an issue for a decade or more.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of this admin, but from the information known now, this is just not one of them.