However, the NWS offices in Texas did issue warnings ahead of the floods and a meteorologist in the National Weather Service office reported the NWS had extra staff on duty during

"The reason the Texans had no idea that a giant flash-flood that killed 20 plus people was going to be coming to them was because the Trump regime has defunded not only the National Weather Service but also what’s known as NOAA … both of those things are how we predict weather events like these," the video’s narrator said.