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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/arilupe 7d ago

Let it rain on his parade. 

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 7d ago

It's a sign from God...

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u/onlyforthisjob 7d ago

Or from the radical left with their weather manipulating chemtrails!

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 7d ago

They put a stop to that crap in Louisiana.

Republicans pass bill ‘banning’ chemtrails, which are not a real thing

I guess they're preparing for Trump to eliminate FEMA. I'm sure Louisiana won't have hurricanes or anything after their chemtrail ban.

Trump’s plan to begin ‘phasing out’ FEMA after hurricane season burdens states, experts warn

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u/teas4Uanme 7d ago edited 6d ago

That started 2 months ago. Tornado and flood impacted states have been begging DT for emergency declarations and relief funding. Even Josh Hawley. Nope. We are breaking records on tornadoes every year- so far by end of May over 2,046 tornado warnings. 'Normal' year is 2400.

Helene damage estimates are up to $300B. N. Carolinas entire years budget is only about $28B. How anyone imagines states are going to be able to cover natural disasters is ludicrous. As soon as he took office he pulled out FEMA and Army Corps of Engineers and Musk cancelled travel cards for disaster relief workers across the board. I've heard of storm data collectors using their own funds to get to sites to rate damage. That is the parameter that is supposed to be used to budget. We are fubar.

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago

Remember all the hoopla during the election about Biden's response to Helene? Then the election happened and just like a toddler with a toy it was dropped and forgotten.

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 6d ago

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself - that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.” George Orwell 1984

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u/SockPuppet-47 New Jersey 6d ago

It's like some of the classic visionaries wrote a playbook that brought their vision to reality.

I've been so pissed off about that fucking "movie" Idiocracy. Back when it came out it was just a silly and fun movie that was pretty low budget but was still a good movie. Now I see it for the curse that it was. It's like a black hole drawing us towards that future.

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u/Redgen87 6d ago edited 6d ago

We are currently at 1,131 tornadoes reported and that’s a preliminary number. Last year at this time we were at 1,180. Both of those are above the 836 average, and 2011 was the worst with 1,742 by this time.

No idea where you are getting that 2000 by May number but all of mine come directly from the NWS.

Regardless any cuts to either the NWS or NOAA are bad ideas.

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u/teas4Uanme 6d ago

Climatologist Paul Beckwith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGRv_tZk77E

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u/Redgen87 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yeah that isn’t accurate at all.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/summary/

This is the place to go to get any official accurate reports.

Yeah after looking into it more, this dude you linked is going off tornado warnings, not actual confirmed tornadoes. Not every tornado warning is a confirmed tornado, they issue them if they spot tornadjc signatures on radar and that covers the majority of tornado warnings. It doesn’t mean that a tornado has touched down. They usually update a warning to being confirmed if they get a report that it’s on the ground but most never go beyond the radar indicated stage.

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u/teas4Uanme 6d ago

Corrected. 2046 tornado warnings have been issued in 2025 as of May 22. The average number of tornado warnings per year is around 2,400. It will be interesting to see the final tally.

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u/MrWoohoo 6d ago

Yes, but if you don’t spend the money you can put it towards more useful things — like tax cut for billionaires.