A NOAA grant for about $300,000 each year had supported the stations.
Have a feeling this figure will come up after a disaster.
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Doubt it. California, Oregon, and Washington state are at risk, Trump doesn't give a shit about them.
Considering a megaquake in the northwest would be the single greatest disaster in American history, the knock on effects would force him to give a shit. He'd probably downplay and neglect it till the end of his days, but the economic impact would cripple the nation. If anything could grow regional differences that would allow for civil war and Balkanization, it's millions of west coast residents dying and the survivors being shafted by the federal government.
That said, the chances of a Cascadia fault line quake during Trump's administration aren't that high. A starvation triggering economic depression caused by tariffs, overspeculation into AI, and mass divestment from the US is all but guaranteed.
Gonna be honest mate, i dont think he cares about any of that. He just said were living in the best times ever when were currently in one of the worst recssions of all time.
hes keeping the epstein at bay until he dies.
yeah his whole thing is if its him then its the greatest and if its anyone else its the worst regardless of the actualy facts.
I am hoping that they decide to fund their own weather stations as a coalition.
Fucking absurd man.. $300k is nothing in the scale of the federal government.
This is what winning looks like?
This is what happens when you sit on your hands during election nights.
Yeah, this is giving me "disbanding the watchdog organization in Wuhan, China to save taxpayer dollars" vibes.
the fact this was so under reported and talked about is just crazy. I mean the timing could not be worse if it was planned. It was something like nov. 2019 when the last people were pulled out.
Dibs on conspiracies that China is building a tsunami-anator and is going to use it against Alaska.
China can literally do nothing, and the Trump Regime would destroy America. They will likely follow Sun-Tzu's advice and let nature takes it natural course.
Yes, but how do they make money for daddy Trump and his cronies? Tornados don't really affect him so why have his personal piggy bank (the US government) pay money for these things. Better to give tax breaks to Apple so that they give him another golden award.
Yeah and if a tsunami hits, the likes of which the world has never seen, the response will be, "How could we possibly have known? Oh well tens of thousands dead. Thoughts and prayers."
I think I'm going to cancel our tsunami insurance