The link to Reddit breaks the whole thing down with supporting links. Real insight into how awful small town politics is. COMMISSIONER BALDWIN: You know we had a baby flood a couple weeks ago, a month or so, whatever it was. And I keep hearing these reports of the old, old system, and I know we're not going to deal with that though. Expect that to be gone where the Jones call the Smiths, and the Smiths call Camp Rio Vista, and Rio Vista blah, blah, blah, along down the line. But it's still there and it still works. The thought of our beautiful Kerr County having these damn sirens going off in the middle of night, I'm going to have to start drinking again to put up with y'all.
SHERIFF HIERHOLZER: The only thing I have to remind people, unfortunately, I guess I'm one of the ones that " Harley maybe has been around here to see some very devastating floods and quite a bit of loss of life. No matter what we do it's going to be up to the public, okay. The notification is great. I think the -- just the markers, the posts at the crossing is one thing, but it actually oughta state that at that level that your car may wash off, get people's attention at that crossing. The only other thing is, and as Bob can attest to, most of the time it has been informal where we call people. Unfortunately, the time we had the most devastating one down on the east end of the County down at the camps, I was working that night, spent 72 hours pulling kids out of fences. But we call people, we called camps, they made the decision that they thought they could beat that ride, and then that no matter what we do and no matter what we install there's going to be loss of life. It's educating people.
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There were about 600 employee cuts at the National Weather Service -- about 100 probationary employees and 500 buyouts.
The Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget would increase the National Weather Service budget by nearly 6.7%.
The same budget proposal cuts other areas of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including research that assists forecasters.
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