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Short-Staffed After DOGE Purges, National Weather Service in Houston Braces for Hurricane Season
Hurricane Harvey, the category 4 storm that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2017, made landfall on a Friday night. By Saturday night, torrential rainfall engulfed the Texas coast, and League City, where the National Weather Service’s Houston/Galveston forecast office is located, was right near ground zero. Jeff Evans, the meteorologist-in-charge at the time, recalled the uncertainty of whether he’d be able to get his staff into the office that Sunday; he made preemptive calls to the NWS office in Tallahassee about a contingency plan to handle emergency operations if need be. “I had to ride with a coworker who had a pickup,” said Evans in a recent interview. “We were driving through flooded roads, which is what we tell people not to do.”They did eventually…The post Short-Staffed After DOGE Purges, National Weather Service in Houston Braces for Hurricane Season appeared first on Texas Monthly.