Was breezy but nothing remotely approaching severe

It has been a nightmare trying to find a neurologist in Boston who works w/ TS. I found one in Burlington but when I need to talk about med changes, even as an existing patient, I can't get an appointment within a YEAR. I am glad you were able to find support. So many flounder just trying to get in.

All-star team... 🙄

Wow, they sure picked a dream team. Shocking.

Oh ok, yes, that makes more sense now. Afterwards I tried to look at comments and didn’t see anything. I guess I was just in a cynical mood 🤣

Only for destructive/catastrophic warnings as tagged by NWS, which these most certainly were. If emergency alerts aren't disabled, they will make a very loud sound 24/7 even if the phone is on silent. It won't sound for every warning; basically ones that are imminently life-threatening.

And even more so when you’re dealing with complex water basins and literal downstream effects. The challenge in precisely pinpointing warning-time impacts w/ radar/gauge data is hard enough; forecasting a historic event with little analog to that granularity before everyone went to bed? Very hard.

To be very clear, I’m not blaming anyone in the path of this event. It’s reality that people disable alerts on their phones and don’t bring weather radios to camp. It’s more that the NPR piece neglects to mention that there are so many more dimensions to the story on the NWS side.

NWS offices generally post on Facebook, too. Folks have many options to receive alerts, and at 4 am, most don’t involve social media. Phone emergency alerts, weather radios, weather apps, TV/radio if awake, etc. But the tuning out and lack of concern kills, and not just floods. Rarely focused on.

Sure. But presenting only socials as the NWS part of (as the title says) “…a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods” is exceptionally misleading given that it presents only those posts as comms from NWS. An important distinction as the forecasters are being torn apart by government officials IMO.

Well, scientists/experts/anyone trying to help you with scientific/technical knowledge and data are widely considered trash these days. So of course they don't realize it (or care). Easy scapegoat when we've already been scapegoats lately.

It's both. And even if people do get the alert at 4 am, do they act? It's all about perceived threat and risk tolerance. Bit of a side note, but there are many reasons why water kills more people than tornadoes, chief of which is the lack of respect for the danger. Phone alerts can't change that.

I agree. I do think a lot of people turn them off, especially people like us who don't "need" the alerts because of our hyper-awareness. But I bet those alerts saved a lot of people in this event.

This feeds the ongoing blame of federal meteorologists who do everything scientifically possible to save every single life in these events. The NWS is drastically broader than X. I guarantee you phone emergency alerts alone saved countless lives.

@gabrielleemanuel.bsky.social I highly suggest you read up on the national weather enterprise and how people receive warnings in the middle of the night (i.e., not social media). There were MANY more facets to the outlook/watch/warning process that are ignored. www.weather.gov/about/weathe....