Budget Cuts Lead to Many Dead

Back in early June, in a Patron Only story, FTVLive told you how WTVJ Meteorologist John Morales made a dire warning for viewers.

Morales said that due to federal budget cuts at the NWS and NOAA, he and other Mets will no longer be able to accurately some of the severe weather.

As you know, over two dozen people are dead in Texas floods and that number is expected to rise.

Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that killed so many.

Exactly, what Morales warned viewers about.

NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Trump administration in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy, losing approximately 600 staffers.

Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas—who also spoke at the press conference—said that the catastrophic flash flooding happened because the skies “dumped more rain than what was forecasted” on two of the river’s forks.

The flooding has killed at least 27 people so far—18 adults and nine children. About 25 young girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp that sits near the river, are still missing.

As hurricane season starts to ramp up, others are worried of more stories like this one.

H/T Daily Beast