Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>As the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent </p><p>Opinion - Zeynep Tufekci<br>July 9, 2025 </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NYT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NYT</span></a><br>[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.] </p><p>[as usual, independent thinking from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ZeynepTufekci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZeynepTufekci</span></a> ] </p><p>"What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced."</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion/texas-floods-nws.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.MnN2.jkfSYN7hrG5h&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/texas-floods-nws.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.MnN2.jkfSYN7hrG5h&smid=url-share</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NWS</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NationalWeatherService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalWeatherService</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emergency</span></a></p>