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Deaath toll in Texas floods now up to 43.

Seems the weather service has been gutted by Trump/DOGE. So they can dismantle the people making Americans aware of the threat of global warming.

In a just world, Trump would never recover from these actions.

In a just world...

Accounts are not entirely clear, as it appears the NWS, while signify underestimating the forecast rainfall, did send out weather alerts.

But this sort of stuff is patent bullshit.

Reporter: Why was the national weather service not pinging their phones before 7.. Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe?

Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service.. we needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1941600458730315789

Accounts *are* entirely clear , Noem is trying "but look at the squirrel" dishonest self-serving arse-covering bollocks.

She is complicit in a desire to destroy federal emergency organisations, and Trump's other cuts such as gutting of the weather service.

The NWS was able to deliver warnings last year; it can't this year because they cut it to ribbons 3-4 months ago.

Here is an AP report from February 25:


WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country
....
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said on social media that the job cuts “are spectacularly short-sighted, and ultimately will deal a major self-inflicted wound to the public safety of Americans and the resiliency of the American economy to weather and climate-related disasters.”

https://apnews.com/article/national-weather-service-layoffs-trump-doge-a65360a1eb2500b7d47c9c966e383f4a

I posted a couple of video links earlier, which set it in the context of Noem's previous enthusiastic statements about destroying FEMA et al.

Of course, these deaths will be the rounding error on the rounding error of the deaths caused by 17m losing their Medicaidentitlement .

Ah, but fuck 'em, they're poor.

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Last thread was a hoot, cannot wait to hear more from "THE FALCON" when he awakens from his stupour.

And verily, See that His Sublime Grace LEONDAMUS, Lord Paramount of Camden, Warden of the Primrose Hill Borders, Commander of the Mighty Herd, He Who Rides The Unbridled Thunder, Surveyor of the PB Wastes and Whisperer to Kings, the Master known as Al-Saqr to the Desert Arabs, as Shahin to the Dusky Persians, and as THE FALCON to us all…

is awake. And maybe having a coffee

If you need a sidekick, I'm always happy to play The Tit

You do yourself down. Try calling yourself "The Merlin". Our smallest hawk. But damn it, good enough to power the Spitfire...

Also the Bolton Paul Defiant; armament pointing backwards, disastrous in the daytime once the enemy knew what was up and reduced to lurking in the night hoping to bag a prize.
And a load of useless to mediocre Faireys.

Merlin engines also powered America's best fighter, the Mustang, which gave the allies aerial superiority then supremacy over Europe. The Mustang's original engines had been no good but the Merlin fixed that. One of the key features of the war was allied cooperation and cross-fertilisation in arms development and manufacture. The axis powers never had that.

The Allison V-1710 was actually more powerful than the Merlin. Up to 15,000 feet Mustangs equipped with it were actually a bit faster.

Above 15k, the issue was the supercharger. The design of the Mustang hadn’t included a turbocharger, mostly for cost/simplicity reasons. The USAF preferred turbochargers for high altitude work.

So the Alison was left with a single stage supercharger in the Mustang. Hence the change to the Merlin with a two stage supercharger.

IIRC the RAF used Alison engines Mustangs until the end of the war, for low level ground attack.

The engineering development of performance piston engines during WWII, with the available technology of the 40s, was actually pretty amazing.

Combined with the fuel. By the end of the war, fuel had become so specialised that it was very difficult for the Germans to run captured aircraft on their fuel. The Allies had less problems, but still couldn’t run German aircraft at full power for all but the briefest times.

The 150 octane (and higher) were witches brews that only vaguely resembled “petrol”.

I used to consider jet engines as incredibly complex. And they are. But in WW2, they were actually simpler in many ways than the contemporary piston engines. Take the Rolls Royce Crecy - and incredibly complex and promising two-strike engine that started development in 1941, and which was cancelled in 1946 without being flown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Crecy

I wonder if that could be revived, using modern materials, for this sort of thing ?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/worlds-fastest-piston-airplane-180969509/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_racing

Note the turbocharged version featured a half scale version of Whittle's jet engine.

One FBI guy's experience of the 'new' FBI under Trump:

"I recount those events more in sorrow than in anger. I love my country and our Constitution with a fervor that mere language will not allow me to articulate, and it pains me that my profession will no longer entail being their servant. As you know, my wife and I are expecting our first child this summer, and this decision will entail no small degree of hardship for us. But as our organization began to decay, I made a vow that I would comport myself in a manner that would allow me to look my son in the eye as I raised him."

Goodbye to All That
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

Good Lord, that was a depressing read

The political capture of both law enforcement and the justice system is happening very rapidly, and far more blatantly than even I expected.

But at least it’s being captured by the right side. By American patriots

In the UK that capture is being done by people, agencies, cultures - that actively hate the UK

A true American patriot would be someone who respected the US Constitution, and was glad the US won the Civil War and World War II.

Not someone who hates the US Constitution (besides the 2nd Amendment), and flies the flag of America's enemy in either the Civil War or WWII.

The problem with MAGA is that they adore (some of), America’s enemies, whilst hating 45% of America’s population.

One FBI guy's experience of the 'new' FBI under Trump:

"I recount those events more in sorrow than in anger. I love my country and our Constitution with a fervor that mere language will not allow me to articulate, and it pains me that my profession will no longer entail being their servant. As you know, my wife and I are expecting our first child this summer, and this decision will entail no small degree of hardship for us. But as our organization began to decay, I made a vow that I would comport myself in a manner that would allow me to look my son in the eye as I raised him."

Goodbye to All That
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that

Good Lord, that was a depressing read

The political capture of both law enforcement and the justice system is happening very rapidly, and far more blatantly than even I expected.

But at least it’s being captured by the right side. By American patriots

In the UK that capture is being done by people, agencies, cultures - that actively hate the UK

A true American patriot would be someone who respected the US Constitution, and was glad the US won the Civil War and World War II.

Not someone who hates the US Constitution (besides the 2nd Amendment), and flies the flag of America's enemy in either the Civil War or WWII.

The problem with MAGA is that they adore (some of), America’s enemies, whilst hating 45% of America’s population.

Same applies to Labour

Deaath toll in Texas floods now up to 43.

Seems the weather service has been gutted by Trump/DOGE. So they can dismantle the people making Americans aware of the threat of global warming.

In a just world, Trump would never recover from these actions.

In a just world...

Accounts are not entirely clear, as it appears the NWS, while signify underestimating the forecast rainfall, did send out weather alerts.

But this sort of stuff is patent bullshit.

Reporter: Why was the national weather service not pinging their phones before 7.. Was it a fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep us safe?

Noem: Trump is currently upgrading the technology in the national weather service.. we needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1941600458730315789

Accounts *are* entirely clear , Noem is trying "but look at the squirrel" dishonest self-serving arse-covering bollocks.

She is complicit in a desire to destroy federal emergency organisations, and Trump's other cuts such as gutting of the weather service.

The NWS was able to deliver warnings last year; it can't this year because they cut it to ribbons 3-4 months ago.

Here is an AP report from February 25:


WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said.

Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the country
....
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said on social media that the job cuts “are spectacularly short-sighted, and ultimately will deal a major self-inflicted wound to the public safety of Americans and the resiliency of the American economy to weather and climate-related disasters.”

https://apnews.com/article/national-weather-service-layoffs-trump-doge-a65360a1eb2500b7d47c9c966e383f4a

I posted a couple of video links earlier, which set it in the context of Noem's previous enthusiastic statements about destroying FEMA et al.