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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

www.wired.com

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What failed was local officials not succeeding in alerting people — in large part because they had plan or mechanism available to do so with the roughly one-hour warning that current meteorology can provide for specific flash floods like this.

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How is it every time a silver single gets lost everyone's phone turns into a siren yet they can't figure out how to use it for a deadly flood.
- Most states know how. Just not Texas.
  
  You know whats big about texas?? Death tolls due to natural disasters they can't prepare for
  
  Death tolls due to natural disasters they can’t prepare for
  Well they can, they choose not to.
  
  And death tolls due to school shootings the cops wait outside for.
  
  But they can everyone in Brownsville know that someone shot a cop in the panhandle.
  
  Almost like people flee to Mexico after committing a crime.
  
  People in Texarkana get the same alerts. They're statewide. It has nothing to do with Brownsville particularly. I just picked someplace far away from the panhandle.
- The first part is the reason for the second part: the alert system isn’t targeted enough so people disable it due to the majority of the alerts being disruptive but not applicable.

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