Trump's gutting of the National Weather Service degraded forecasts during tornado and storm outbreak in the Central US.

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1. Just the start. Wait until hurricane season and NWS, FEMA & others are understaffed/demoralized. Pity the Gulf states.

Tornados are bad, less warning time and much higher winds, but little flooding and all of it much more localized generally compared to the huge multi=state swaths that hurricanes can damage. I sure wouldn't want to be New Orleans or Galveston staring down a major hurricane where local and state resources are meager, badly managed and poorly funded because they have relied on FEMA and other Fed assistance for $$$ and expertise. Last time I was in New Orleans, all the things that were damaged from the last major hurricane which was years before had still not been fixed as it fell on the local government which begged the state government all of which simply didn't allocate $$$.