Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives. After torrential rains and flash flooding struck Friday in the Texas Hill Country,

"A lot of the weather forecast offices now are not operating at full complement of staff," said the former lead of NOAA.

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