🧵.As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene. In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.

While reporting this story about Hurricane Helene in NC, I was struck by how many people were asleep near creeks and rivers largely unaware of the coming danger. They were left to swim from homes. Or worse. 100+ died. Texas sounds so tragically similar.

“I can tell you in hindsight, watching what it takes to deal with a disaster like this, my vote would probably be different now,” the freshman GOP lawmaker said.

RT @TexasTribune: New: Hill Country flooding death toll rises to 59 as search continues for missing girls, other survivors .

RT @charlesornstein: We don’t talk enough about the nexus between weather forecasts and evacuation orders. @JenBerryHawes did so recently w….

Why the Texas floods were so severe

“We didn’t know this flood was coming,” the county's chief elected official said, even as local reporters pointed to the warnings and pushed him for answers about why more precautions weren’t taken.

RT @propublica: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collect….

RT @MichaelRLowry: I took a different approach to telling the forecast in today's newsletter. I may not have the opportunity in every 2-min….

Live Updates: Frantic Search for the Missing After At Least 13 Killed in Texas Flood - The New York Times

RT @propublica: New: A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem's personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include….

RT @MegsNewz: The Federal Emergency Management Agency still has not opened applications for an enormous suite of grants, including ones tha….

RT @propublica: New: Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local lea….

RT @glennsmith5: Some 15% of South Carolina special education students faced out-of-school suspensions for up to 10 days in the 2022-23 sch….

Jackson City Council fights proposal to remove Medgar Evers name from Navy vessel - Mississippi Today

RT @davidfolkenflik: Trump senior adviser Kari Lake guts Voice of America . My story .

RT @propublica: A White House official asserted there is “no need” for the public to know who’s in DOGE and asserted that there have been n….

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Emanuel AME Church massacre, a racist attack that killed 9 innocent people at their Bible study. An assault like this harms so many. It also leaves many lessons to be learned, if we are willing to learn them.

RT @propublica: THREAD: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness.". Thousands….

RT @propublica: New: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia….

RT @davidfolkenflik: House votes to kill all U.S. funding for NPR, PBS and public media for next two years . A major moment for conservativ….