NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980

Posted by DapperDame89@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 20 comments

https://ground.news/article/noaa-ends-extreme-weather-database-that-tracked-cost-of-disasters-since-1980?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

There's over 100 sources for this information on Ground News.

As someone who values past information to predict future outcomes in my preparedness, I don't think this is a good thing.

Does anyone else think this is vital preparedness info? I would assume in tracking the damage would include tracking the storms in general 🤷‍♀️

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InterstellarReddit@reddit

“This decision follows staffing reductions and budget cuts, with the 2026 proposal cutting NOAA's funding by 24% and planning to close labs and eliminate research divisions.”

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ImportantBiscotti112@reddit

Anyone else notice that our national debt has actually INCREASED since all these cuts?

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InterstellarReddit@reddit

Yup but it’s okay because all they have to do is point the finger at someone and say it’s their fault.

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CompetitiveGood2601@reddit

there shutting down the warning systems as well which is a much bigger problem - like in many other areas people are going to needlessly die over this incompetence!

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oneofyallfarted@reddit

19 people so far in Kentucky have died from the recent tornado. Some didn’t receive a warning.

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LoathfulOptimist@reddit

It's all cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Pair this with FEMA getting hollowed out so that the states have to pay for disasters.

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Xijit@reddit

Not cruelty, money: the owner of AccuWeather has been pushing trump to kill NOAA since his first term, because free government weather resources make it hard to sell weather data.

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Sweaty-Feedback-1482@reddit

The most devout MAGA loyalists will 100% die and lose their loved ones and the ones that survive will 100% continue supporting this human-shaped anal prolapse.

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As a result, some offices, including the Jackson office, no longer have an overnight staff from roughly midnight to 7 a.m. The Jackson office is short seven staff members, and the other two offices in Kentucky — Paducah and Louisville — are short-staffed too.

There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices. Acting meteorologists in charge, who often have other job duties, are now running those offices.

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Alive_Education_3785@reddit

Already have. Given the recent tornadoes.

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Relative_Business_81@reddit

Can’t get any worse if we don’t know how bad it ever was

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Huntduxin25@reddit

Wtf

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LakeSun@reddit

Trump: "I don't want to know, don't tell me, I don't believe you, shut the F up". To Science.

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ReasonablePossum_@reddit

Neh, this is a move paved by the insurance industry based on future projections. When you have scientists telling you that your kids have at least a 700% chance to experience a 1/10000 years weather/climate catastrophic events; insuring clients against it is bad business.

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Spuckler_Cletus@reddit

It’s a shame they can’t afford a 10-pack of thumb drives off Amazon.

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Pattern_Is_Movement@reddit

People voted for this?

What a disgrace.

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