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Staff cuts forced this forecast office to shut overnight. Then, a tornado hit.

www.washingtonpost.com /weather/2025/05/17/tornadoes-understaffed-jackson-kentucky-weather-office/

The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of a growing number of forecast offices unable to cover an overnight shift since the Trump administration cut staffing levels through buyouts and firings.

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At least 23 people died. As if this administration didn't have blood all over its hands already, but they keep choosing to add to the body count
- It will only get worse...
  Just wait till these lapses in available shift coverage hit those of us in Tornado Alley...
  🤦‍♀️ 🤡 🖕
  
  Hurricane season has entered the chat
- They enjoy killing people. This is in no way accidental.
  
  This is the civil war people were afraid of but it isn't being fought with armies, it is being fought by Republicans denying basic disaster relief to hurt and kill, no bullets needed.
Yeah but tornados are woke and anyone who dies in one is a radical leftist
- It's God punishing the queer and homo lovers in
  checks notes
  Deep red southern Kentucky!
  
  We all know that tornados are caused by gay sex, so maybe those people aren't as virtuous as they claim to be?
  
  unironically the opposite?
- Downburst Entrainment Inflow
- Purging the dems.
This is JOE BIDENS FAULT that Trump and Elon Musk CUT NOAA Funding so they could Afford Millitary Parades and Elon Musk's BILLION DOLLAR CONTRACTS!
- The leopards are nom-nomming face.
"Surely the leopards won't eat MY face!" -Kentucky
Toto, we're not in Mar-a-Lago anymore.
It’s been a bit stunning to see double digit death numbers but I guess we will all have to get used to high numbers of deaths under Trump 2.0.
- Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. - Donald "Farquaad" Trump.
The thing is - they use these disasters to punish communities they don’t like.
In Oklahoma - I am a (non medical) volunteer for the Medical Reserve Corps. There were calls when small towns like Stroud were hit in 2023 - there was no mobilization for Tulsa in 2023. Both our governor and our lieutenant governor were completely out of the picture, no one even knew who was in charge to even declare a state of emergency. Places in Tulsa were without running water or electricity for weeks after. No one cared - Tulsa is mostly Black and votes Blue.
We are looking at severe weather in Oklahoma tonight. I guarantee, if it takes out a small town like fucking Tishimongo or something - a place that voted for our governor - they’ll get help. If it’s Tulsa - lol.
Well unfortunately this is what Americans voted for.
- Except for all the data that says that they absolutely stole the election.
  https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
  https://youtu.be/UgIay64Obcs
  https://youtu.be/t-yr-Mgkhm0
  https://electiontruthalliance.org/eta
  First and last links are the data. The middle links are for us stupid people that need to be told how to read the data in the last link.
  
  The fact that tramp even ever had a chance to win with more than 30% of the vote is reason enough for the whole country to be in deep shit and need to figure out what went wrong.
Nature is slowly healing.
The county in which Jackson is located voted 79% for dump with 4,036 votes. Jackson itself has 2231 people. Very high likelihood the majority if not all of those 23 fatalities were dump supporters.
Hey, at least they're not in Kentucky anymore, eh?
Small Government, Jeezus 'n' Freedom!
Nobody could have foreseen this.
Didn’t the office say they were fully staffed the night of the tornado and they sent out alerts?

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