re: Seriously WTF? Critical hurricane forecast tool abruptly terminated

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The administration is full of idiots that seem to think Bobby Jindal was an amazing leader and savante.

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This isn't a Trump administration issue no matter how much you want to make it that. This same problem would be happening with Kamala as president. The current satellite array is dying and we have no adequate backup for that thanks to decades of failure to come up with one. We have some backup, but none that will fully close the gap.

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You mean the NOAA that is having its staff and funding cut so they can give incentives to oil and gas companies?

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Proof that this is happening? Prove that the government is cutting funding to government organizations to give money to private companies?

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People are acting like there is going to be some kind of surprise landfall now or something.

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Dude, you shouldn’t downplay a very real situation. I mean, you could go to bed happy on a random Tuesday in August only to wake up to a Cat 5 just minutes from landfall on your house.

I don’t even want to think about the schools forgetting to close down for a week just because they didn’t know a storm was on their doorstep. Terrifying, I tell you.

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I’m all for cutting waste in government, but I don’t agree so much with cutting jobs to NOAA and national parks. Some people do those jobs because they truly love it and it’s their passion. A good forest ranger does that job because it’s what they always wanted to do, etc. same for a meteorologist who’s not on TV.

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I agree. I would add to the list of feds to cut or get rid of completely is anyone who is involved in regulating billing and performance from contractors. That'd be about 80% of the federal workforce and we can rely on contractors to be honest and trustworthy. It was pretty damned frustrating during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to have to explain every nickel and dime charged to a GS11 underling. Imagine the audacity of someone making $75K a year questioning the quality of goods and services provided by a multi-billion dollar a year contractor. What a waste of money. Everybody knows if there is a trustworthy group in the United States its Federal Contractors who do not need any regulation at all....they simply always do the right thing every time.

What does the DOD have to do with hurricane modeling?

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I’m all for cutting waste in government

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Then you should want the NOAA cut. Like every other agency, they are bloated.

Besides, after they admitted to changing data to support climate catastrophism (a purely political move), they should have been shuttered.

FAFO.

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Do you think we won't know if a hurricane is coming?

In Louisiana, I'd be more concerned with decades of neglect of our highway network that would we are heavily reliant on during evacuations.

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Its stupid to predict hurricanes...like the old man down in the quarter said they come around every June...if you ain't got the constitution to live with them move out of the area where they are an impact. And you damn sure don't need any money from those of us smart enough not to live in those areas or in areas where floods are common and wild fires and extreme winter weather. This country is soooo soft a sizeable population is concerned with the weather LOL...