Texas Sen Ted Cruise (R) stated that “something went wrong”, when the employees were not warned of flood waters on the Guadalup river at the All-Gourd Christian Summer Camp in Ker County, in which at least 27 campers and counselors were killed.
Cruise told Fox News in an interview, “The fact that flood waters are growing, when you are sleeping in your cabins, something wrong has gone.
Cruise is the latest member of the Congress, who criticizes the lack of adequate preparation for The Flash Flood in Central Texas, killing at least 81 people.
Trump White House has defended the federal response to the storm.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said in a post on the Social Platform X that meteorologists say the National Meteorological Service (NWS) “did his job in Texas”.
He said that Chris Vagassi of the US Meteorological Society said that NWS was “on the ball” and excluded the message.
Vagassi said that the forecast office in San Antonio did a “spectacular work”.
But the Democrats, especially the Senate Democratic Leaders Chak Shumar (NY), are calling for a thorough investigation into whether the fields of Weather Service in San Antonio and San Angelo were poorly communicated with local authorities on charges of issuing vacancies.
In a letter on Monday, Shumor urged Roderick Anderson that in a letter on Monday, “The scope of the shortage of employees at the major local National Meteorological Service (NWS) stations, and to open an investigation into the investigation, contributed to the horrific loss of life and property during fatal floods.”
Shumar pointed to media reports that the major forecasts and coordination posts in San Antonio and NWS’s San Angelo offices were vacant during the storm.
He said, “These experts are responsible for the impacts of the storm, about the water level monitoring, issuing flood warnings and coordinating directly with local emergency managers about when to warn the public and issue orders for the withdrawal,” he wrote.
“To keep it clearly: they help save life,” he wrote.
