An internal memo reviewed by Grist showed the National Weather Service has stopped translating radio alerts in the southern region, a move that has enraged workers in the local offices.
I feel what’s more ridiculous is the notion that Americans are supposed to speak English exclusively. In what world does it make sense not to be able to communicate with as many people as you can?
In a world of English-speaking white supremacists, like those who now run the USA. Only some kinds of people are considered worth talking to.
Now they can do the most American thing of all: Ignore weather warnings.
I mean, what am I supposed to do with a tornado warning? Shelter in my non-existent basement or storm shelter?
I had a series of tornado warnings a couple weeks ago and was freaking out a bit before just figuring there was nothing I could do, so why worry. I then just packed a bowl, blasted some music to try and drown out the sound of the tornado sirens, and hotboxed the room.
You’re supposed to move to the safest area in your house, like a bathroom or closet towards the center of the structure, preferably with close walls and no exterior windows, and stay there until the danger has passed. Bring pets and bottled water.
I’m well aware or the recommendations, including that those instructions specifically do NOT apply to mobile homes/trailers. The instructions for mobile homes/trailers is the same as for a car or truck; leave and shelter in the closest appropriate shelter or lie down in a ditch while trying to protect your head.
Oh, sorry. I thought you said you didn’t know what you were supposed to do. Laying in a ditch during severe weather is a pretty shitty solution, even if it’s technically safer.
In our house, we would just walk out on the porch and watch the neat clouds for an hour or two.
Well with the defunding of national weather services, speaking English doesn’t help either
Southern region is so vague as to be a useless term. Kentucky isn’t the “south”. The OG 13 colony south is one thing. Western South is another. Texas is its own silly place. People speak Spanish in the north. NWS is national.
Bad lazy article.
Yeah Kentucky is like…Midwest mixed with mountain people who like to pretend they’re a little south. From my experiences in Kentucky they’re way more Appalachian and Midwest in spirit than Deep South Alabama/South Carolina/Georgia.
Look…more intentional consequences
Foreign tourism can just get fucked too I guess.
And all the first responders that have to deal with more missing/injured/critical conditiom/dead people
Late-stage “Youre in america, SPEAK ENGLISH” karens running this fucking country
They’re trying to kill the spainish speakers
No surprise that it’s the South. All of their local economies exist in perpetual reliance of Federal dollars, so naturally their politics are anti-Federal.
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
Morons
