Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.

Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed 24 people. NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Trump administration in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy,

Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.