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#sirens

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It would be interesting to know whether FEMA has fulfilled commitments to West Virginia and North Carolina after #flooding last spring… and does TX hill country need #sirens ?

“Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ “big beautiful” reconciliation bill, prior to its signing by Donald Trump on Friday, that eliminates a $150m fund to “accelerate advances and improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, #forecasting assessments, and dissemination of information to the public” around weather forecasting.”

“More than 600 employees have exited the National Weather Service amid a Trump administration push to shrink the government workforce, leaving many offices short-staffed of meteorologists and other support workers.

“Around a fifth of all full-time workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), meanwhile, are also set to depart.”

“Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting fundingBy Oliver Milman

I really thought I'd finally found it, I really thought I'd found why the smoke detectors liked to go off for fun at random times, more memorably at night, most memorably around 1-3am, when I found that long-term defective connector but

GUESS NOT

"Anything to declare?" "Yeah, don't buy Kidde."

seriously, fuck kidde.

We're ditching all of 'em. every single one. fuck 'em. DO NOT BUY KIDDE, they don't even honour warranties.

Trying BRK this time, they're the same people as First Alert, but it's the contractor brand. Combo smoke/CO detectors. They're more expensive. Hopefully they'll also be better.

FUCK kidde.