I am cynical about the storm warnings we get in my area. But having lived through 2 derechos so far, and living in the Ohio River Valley, I take precautions each time.

The people who are responsible for this disastrous tragedy are the same people who call climate change a hoax and encourage their followers to ignore the writing on the wall. It's like blaming sheep lining up for slaughter.

Meaning, leave as a precaution, or better yet don't hang out by a river known for flooding during storms, or even make plans to during a season more prone to storms. It's definitely inconvenient - but safer.

I evacuated every single hurricane, no matter what.

If I were to get a flood warning, I'd get the hell
out of there fast.

I never even heard of warning fatigue.

As a sailor, always with a weather eye, have had to make stay or go choices.
Had property in Key Largo during Andrew. Had Elena linger just offshore and could recite a litany of storms.
When necessary, we leave, early.
But to witness hurricane parties that went awry, towns blown away and people "sticking it out," I have learned humans become inured to adversity and take pride in showing determination and toughness.
The writing of what's to come is plainly evident in the details around us for so many things.

Those Texans who planned for a glorious weekend away over the Fourth, chose to go forward even though we have weather forecasters at our fingertips.
They certainly knew Harvey dropped 50" of rain as it lingered over Houston. They had to know that Western Carolina took a serious hit with Milton.
Weather has become more serious.

My sense is, we as a general population, have not taken the clues around us as seriously as we ought.

Leadership challenges rather than assuages.

I will spend the summer watching the National Hurricane Center updates.

Alexa lights up and you ask for the notification, the first you hear is, “The national weather service has issued…”

What follows is warnings (plural) for thunderstorms, rain, high heat, freezing temps, snow, drought, high winds - you name it, and all overwhelming a big zero. And I can get those warnings several times, almost hourly, during an “event.”

That’s the fatigue.

than under-warned or not warned at all?

it's been raining down there for weeks and people just stopped paying attention

So, CNN thinks that firing over 600 employees in the NWS will not have "significantly affected the forecasts and warnings" in Texas.

CNN just can't help but cover for the Trump administration.

Then Kristi Noem is on television saying Trump wanted to upgrade the NWS. What a joke.

That cutting so many of it's staff would result in multiple deaths in natural catastrophes. The answer: Anyone who isn't a card carrying member of the orange cult, that's who.

Funny how these so claimed right to lifers, think billionaire tax cuts, are more important than the lives of the less wealthy.

is trumps fault and Doge as well as Musk.

Period

Presumably the people making decisions in the Trump administration didn’t know that either.

Shall we start a GoFundMe to pay for weather balloons and emergency coordinators?

Somewhere out there, i imagine there’s a nice meteorologist / coordinator who feels horrible, but I hope he or she knows that this was the fault of 1) the man in the Oval Office, 2) the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, and big money PACs who despise the idea of government For The People or the common good, and 3) the sociopaths and liars who thrive on power or dismiss the need for “climate resilience” and mitigation strategies.

Democratic politicians need to be screaming about this on every news show in the country, otherwise tRump will be able to leverage this tragedy to privatize the weather service.

because he controls the weather, remember?

Everything else is noise and finger-pointing. America's being defunded and this is one of the consequences.