Texas, FEMA maps and Flash flood
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Flooding is one of the most destructive natural disasters and many American homeowners remain without flood-specific coverage, leaving them without coverage for flood-related damages.
Flash floods in Texas last week killed at least 121 people and left more than 170 missing. Farmers are now working to assess damage to their properties.
Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.
In the last nine years, federal funding for a system has been denied to the county as it contends with a tax base hostile to government overspending.
Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.
For years, employees say, they've had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the breaking point when the Trump administration began pushing new staffing cuts.
State and local officials are calling out federal forecasters amid deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country over the extended Fourth of July weekend. The criticism comes, as funding cuts and staff shortages plague the National Weather Service and other emergency management agencies nationwide.