Around 80 dead
After the flood disaster in Texas, Trump criticizes the predecessor bidges
Without Donald Trump’s austerity measures, the extent of Texas’ flood disaster could have been reduced, some say. The president points to his predecessor.
After the flood disaster in Texas, grief is great in the United States. The authorities have now confirmed around 80 deaths. Searches are still being made for missing, so the number of fatalities could increase even further.
Donald Trump spoke of a “cata stop” and has announced a visit to the disaster area-but already the US President has made it clear that he at least sees a partial debt with his predecessor Joe Biden. “It was a bidding organization, that was not our organization,” he replied to questions about why the people in the region in which many campaigns in the USA camped on this long holiday weekend were not warned and evacuated earlier.
Donald Trump reduced the means of the weather service
After the accident, Trump himself is criticized: he has recently made massive cuts in the national weather service and the climate authority. Numerous employees of both authorities have been released in Trump’s second term. Critics see this a reason that the tidal waves were able to surprise people in Texas in such a way.
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The “New York Times” reports that important positions were not occupied at the weather service at the time of the flood disaster. It was lacking in experienced employees, especially in communication with the local authorities in Texas. The meteorologist, who coordinates the flood warnings, had to leave the national weather service as a result of the cuts at the end of April.
Torn into death – the devastation of the flood of falls in pictures
The boys in the village of Ingram look at a PAC-Man machine torn by the flood. In addition to the fatalities that are to be complained about, more than 850 people are saved unharmed. Some of the people would have saved themselves on trees so as not to be carried away by the floods
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People in Texas were surprised by the flood
Municipal representatives in Texas had complained that they had not been warned of the water masses. “We didn’t know that a flood was coming,” said Rob Kelly, the administrative director of the particularly severely affected area Kerr County. “Be insured, nobody knew that this type of flood would come.” The national weather service, on the other hand, emphasized that a tidal warning was published on Thursday and Friday.
Donald Trump himself did not want to go into the criticism. The US President said that he would not stop the dismissed meteorologists at the authorities. About his plans to dissolve the national civil protection authority Fema, “we can speak later,” he said.
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