Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn | Texas floods 2025
The deadly Texas floods can indicate a new base in the United States Donald Trump Experts warn that the allies disintegrate the decisive federal agencies that help the states prepare and respond to extreme weather and other risks.
More than 100 deaths, and dozens of other remains missing after the sudden floods in the geographical area known as Texas Hill County Circassians entirely invaded Friday night – apparently it was an inaccurate storm that stopped before it got rid of huge amounts of rain over a short period of time, a phenomenon that has become increasingly common.
It is still not clear why the early warning system failed in a timely evacuation of Camp Mystic, where 700 girls were dominated in a well -known conflict on the Guadalobi River, but there are increasing concerns that the chaos and discounts that Trump incite and his billionaire Illon Musk in the National Beather Service (NWS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (Fema) may contribute to the stage of death.
“This is the exact type of storm that meteorologists, climate scientists, and emergency management are talked about, and they warn about decades at this stage, and there is absolutely no reason that this will not happen in other parts of the country. Samantha Montano, Professor of Emergency Management at the Massachusetts Marine Academy.
“It takes a lot of money, experience and time to eliminate risks and make sure that agencies are ready to respond when a flood situation occurs as in Texas. If you cancel these preparation efforts, if you shoot the people who do this work, the response will not be effective.”
FEMA was created in 1979 by Jimmy Carter – specifically because the states are struggling to deal with major disasters – and are working closely with government agencies and local government to provide resources, coordination, technical expertise, leadership and communication with the public when they cannot overcome alone.
Upon returning to the White House, Trump immediately started threatening the Fema solution, justifying the agency amid its ongoing efforts to help the societies destroyed by Los Angeles. forest fires and Helen HurricaneCategory 4 Storm Leave at least 230 people in southern Apalashia.
The threats were followed by a pledge to dismantle Fema at the end of the 2025 hurricane season, without making any clear plan about what will happen next. Discounts are part of the base -unforgettable management claims that private states and institutions are able to provide most federal services, including weather, scientific research and emergency management.
Reports indicate More than a third of the full-time permanent workforce of FEMA has been launched or accepted acquisitions, including some of its most experienced and knowledgeable leaders who coordinate disaster responses-which can include many federal agencies for several months or years.
Emergency management and weather service side. In NWS, more than 600 people have already been demobilized or retire short From meteorologists and a clock recruitment cover. The agency was also forced to expand the scope of routine weather.
Two major meteorologists at the San Antonio NWS office, who are responsible for the prediction in the Hill Control area, were among the losses of acquisitions of musk and the demobilization of workers. This included the meteorology specialist in warning coordination, which is usually responsible for communicating with local emergency managers to help translate NWS’s expectations into possible effects of local procedures such as warnings and evacuation orders.
But Trump said that it is unlikely that employee discounts will be reversed to NWS, even in the aftermath of Texas floods. On Sunday, the president said of a possible reflection: “I do not think.” “This was something that happened in seconds. No one expected it. No one saw it. Very talented there, they didn’t see it.”
Accuweather, the famous commercial weather, depends on NWS for most constituent meteorological data and expectations. Fema is often taken to cover the costs of residence in emergency situations and reconstruction of Americans without sufficient securing and/or means of rebuilding.
Reports indicate that the NWS weather balloons, which evaluate the risks of the storm by measuring the speed of wind, humidity, temperature and other conditions that satellites may not discover, have been canceled in the last weeks of Nebraska to Florida because of Florida because of Florida because of Lack of employees. In the most time congestion of storm predictions, deadly heat waves and forest fires, weather service employees decreased by more than 10 %, and for the first time in about half a century, some of their prediction offices are no longer around the clock throughout the week.
In May, the NWS office in eastern Kentuck Multiple hurricanes that eventually killed 28 people.
Despite these threats, the Republican Budget Law signed by Trump last week reduces 150 million dollars from funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) to help improve future weather forecast and reduce the amount of money to the National Science Corporation, which is the first federal agency that supports basic scientific and engineering research, by 56 % next year.
Alan Gerrard, the former head of the Warning and Development Research Department in the face of national storms that spoke to democracy! on monday.
NSF research has played a pivotal role in developing early warning systems for all kinds of risk, but an urgent need to improve local accuracy and accept society amid increasing threats due to global heating. There is no other financing source able to fill this gap.
“The Hill Country is a desert area with large rivers that had historical historical floods that are vulnerable to sudden floods – but like most rural America does not have measurement systems. Without standards, warnings do not come early enough, and with clear floods every 15 minutes can save lives. This is something that we can do better.” “The flood scientist is trying to improve early warning systems in Abalchia .
Sinator Texas Ted Cruz called for a “better system of warnings to get children out of harm” in the wake of the disaster, although he entered the language in the “Beautiful Great” draft law to reduce weather promotions in Nawa. Local officials also sought to pay attention to Trump’s discounts – and their support for his plans – but it is impossible to ignore the lack of leadership in Fema, especially because Trump is planning to visit the region with the Minister of Internal Security, Christie sleep, on Friday.
David Richardson, the official official of Fema, did not travel to Texas. Richardson, a former US naval infantry that has no experience in emergency management before his appointment in May, is the most famous for him Warning for agency employees Because Trump’s plan is not opposed to the Fema or “I will run over you.”
“Many of the main people have ended in FEMA who have worked there for years, contracts in many cases, and they have the expertise necessary to be able to actually transfer the agency’s resources. Disaster Science: Sending from the front lines of the climate crisis.
“It is not the same level as it is [hurricane] Helen, but there is already a lot of inaccurate information there, and Fema is no longer a reliable voice – we have not heard from the official, the Minister of Internal Security only Christie sleep, which is very unusual. Montano added:
The disorders in the federal agencies in charge of predicting and responding to disaster come at a time when the threat resulting from severe weather grows due to the climate crisis caused by man. Texas floods occurred in a warmer and more humid atmosphere than the past than the past, with one analysis It was found that climate change had made the conditions wet by 7 % and 1.5 ° C more than it was otherwise.
“We have added a lot of carbon to the air, and that additional carbon that deprives energy in the climate system,” said Andrew Disler, Climate Scientist at the University of Texas A and M. “Because of this additional energy, every weather event that we see now carries some effect of climate change. The only question is the size of this effect.”
Meanwhile on Monday, the White House Described Texas is fatal as “God’s action.”
