Texas, National Weather Service and Floods
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The early warnings and alerts from the National Weather Service didn’t indicate a catastrophic flood was on its way.
This part of Texas Hill Country is known for flash floods. Why were so many people caught off guard when the river turned violent?
Emergency alerts gave "preliminary lead times of more than three hours before flash flooding conditions occurred," the agency said
Key positions at National Weather Service offices across Texas are vacant, sowing doubt over the state’s ability to respond to natural disasters as rescuers comb through the flood-ravaged Hill Country.
Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.After torrential rains and flash flooding struck Friday in the Texas Hill Country,