I watched in real time the damage done to NOAA by Trump as a massive tornado was ripping through Somerset Ky.

[mackdaddy]

When dangerous weather is in my region I will watch "Ryan Hall, Y'all" livestream on YT. He has a small private team and has set up an impressive operation and can relay the NOAA warnings and he and other meteorologist in his group help identify the severe weather when it is happening and even down to streets and business in the path of tornadoes.

Last night an extreme weather system was over the Somerset to London Kentucky area and a massive extremely strong tornado spun up very close to Somerset and intensified quickly. Ryan and crew often identify and call severe weather a few seconds before the official call from NOAA/NWS puts out the official warning.

But last night this thing turned into a monster tornado lofting debris over 30,000 feet into the air indicating a very dangerous storm probably in the EF4 range. Ryan was very upset that the official warning had not been upgraded for many minutes as the tornado was heading for these more populated towns. Ryan mentioned several times how understaffed NWS was with the recent DOGE cuts making it worse.

Finally one of the livestream watchers who also had their house damaged called a NWS office a state away in OHIO to relate his damage and that office was able to update the warning level to the highest 'PDS" (Particularity Dangerous Storm).

It is great their are private resources like this YouTube channel, but cutting these government services is causing real danger and injury to real people.

I hope the Billionaires enjoy their Tax Cuts.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Paying the Price for DOGE - NWS office in Kentucky no longer has a permanent overnight forecaster

Cuts to weather staffing in a place prone to sudden, violent weather:

A National Weather Service office in eastern Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms were moving through much of the eastern United States, according to the union that represents the department’s meteorologists.

Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the union that represents Weather Service employees, said the office in Jackson, Ky., was one of four that no longer had a permanent overnight forecaster after hundreds of people left the agency as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, the initiative led by Elon Musk that is reshaping the federal bureaucracy.

Mr. Fahy said on Friday that because of the threat for flooding, hail and tornadoes facing eastern Kentucky, the Weather Service had to find forecasting help for the office.

And:

As Kentucky braces for another round of severe weather, the three National Weather Service offices in Kentucky have been hobbled by low staffing levels, according to media reports and union officials. The Jackson office in Breathitt County no longer has enough staff to cover overnight shifts, according to the Washington Post and people familiar with National Weather Service operations. The office is responsible for forecasts in Eastern Kentucky, which has been hit hard the past two years with severe flooding, including a devastating 2022 flood that killed 45 people and two rounds of flooding this year that left several people dead. There is no meteorologist supervisor at any of the three Kentucky offices — Jackson, Paducah and Louisville. Instead, there are acting meteorologists in charge who often have multiple job duties, said Tom Fahy, legislative director for the National Weather Service Employee Service Organization, the union that represents National Weather Service staff.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/05/paying-the-price-for-doge

[mackdaddy]

7. And now FEMA is also ripped to shreds to help with the aftermath.

Forget help from the Feds.

'Your on your OWN buddy' is the new Trump MAGA response.

[Lovie777]

2. The firing of qualified meteorologists and weather experts will be truly devastating to the regions......

the trustworthiness of informative warnings was top notched. But alas, like shithole, his cabinet, administration and republicans in general, the incompetence may ensue and that in itself is frightening.

I live in Southern California where now we can get half a second or we get lucky in maybe 5 seconds notice on the phone that a earthquake will hit but the scale of it is unknown. But the regions where sufficient tracking can be done is up in the air now.

Stay safe.

[Blues Heron]

3. Elon should be charged with murder for the deaths that occurred.

Same as tampering with traffic signals or any safety equipment. Lock that pig up.

[Lovie777]

8. It is not solely musk, it's shithole too.....

and others. The insuperable ones.

[benfranklin1776]

11. I agree. Reckless endangerment and causing or risking a catastrophe comes to mind.

Overall there needs to be a Nuremberg II tribunal for all of the crimes against humanity these bastards have committed and continue to perpetrate. 🤬

[newdeal2]

22. Don't forget Republicans in the Senate and House

Their silence is complicity. They like what is happening.

[UpInArms]

4. Had to get rid of anyone who could say

Climate …


Change

[2naSalit]

5. I usually post Ryan Hall's livestreams during storms...

And I saw that last night. There should be a lot of loud protest over this. A lot of people died last night and that was a very large and dangerous tornado that lasted well over an hour.

I hope doge gets sued for this.

[kentuck]

6. Beautiful Somerset...

[Justice matters.]

15. Sad, but how many in that state voted for the convicted scammer...

but never punished as he should have been?

FAFO

[markie]

9. I hope the Billionaires...

choke on their tax cuts!

[benfranklin1776]

10. Or get hammered by F-4 tornadoes 😡

Which they were unaware of because of these lethal firings of people whose primary mission is to protect all of us. It would be properly karmic 🤬

[orleans]

19. i was thinking the same thing nt

[barbtries]

12. I watch him too.

and have noticed that several areas he said didn't have the radar visibility. I'm glad he finally brought up that this is the consequence of the senseless cuts to vital services a bunch of no nothings have inflicted on us.

It's going to be a disastrous tornado season and people will die because of their fuckery.

[The Madcap]

13. Also check out Max Velocity on Youtube

He gives good forecasts and does livestreams during weather events. The two together cover those rather well as they are usually focused on different storms.

[wordstroken]

21. Just subscribed to Max Velocity on YT. Already subscribed to Ryan Hall as of last year -- where I got the best info on

Hurricane Milton, which took over four months to recover from.

Thank you, Madcap, for your helpful suggestion.

[The Madcap]

24. If you live in the NE-TX corridor

The next three days could be very interesting on the weather front....ok...bad pun.

[Wonder Why]

14. Looks like Somerset went for Krasnov. Enough said.

[Justice matters.]

16. They F'd Around.

Talk about a way to FO...

Wonder how many in the middle of that devastation 1- survived... 2- will learn a "lesson" they won't forget?

[travelingthrulife]

18. They will just blame 'the government' and continue to be blissfully unaware

of what the GOP and Trump have done to us.

[Vinca]

17. Sounds like DIY weather forecasting and people are dying as a result.

[dalton99a]

20. Kick

[orleans]

23. over 85% voted for trump. tsk tsk tsk. did they really think he'd keep them safe & do the right thing?

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did they think that criminal had a conscience?
maybe none of that mattered. the important thing was that their team won. aren't they the lucky ones
https://laurelcountyclerk.ky.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NOV2024.pdf

i'm sorry for that 15% who voted for something better