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LeftInTX

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2. Thanks for this. I saved all of the alerts. NWS also releases them on twitter.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 08:13 PM

14 hrs ago

One thing I noticed, is they treated this flood like a "microevent"....(Like an F0-1 tornado)
Heck, I got a tornado warning when an F2 hit about 40 miles from me.

Well, water moves and isn't "local".
When you live upstream from a storm, it isn't likely to impact you. But when you live downstream, hello???

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Even Republican Texas isn't important to shitstain dave99 22 hrs ago #1

Thanks for this. I saved all of the alerts. NWS also releases them on twitter. LeftInTX 14 hrs ago #2