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Lonestarblue

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2. The San Antonio office was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist in charge.

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:42 PM

Jul 2025

All fired or accepted early retirement. These are the people who would be on the phone in the middle of the night calling local authorities to inform them of a more serious storm forecast. Those lost hours could have saved lives.

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Hmmm. I guess you can stand behind 'no apologies' - but does that make stopdiggin Jul 2025 #1

The San Antonio office was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist in charge. Lonestarblue Jul 2025 #2

so you are asserting that essential calls were not made? stopdiggin Jul 2025 #8

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