To the editor: Seeing the images and studying the tales from Texas, our hearts are crushed for the ache of the mother and father, spouses and youngsters of these left behind (“A minimum of 43 folks killed in Texas floods; 27 summer season camp kids lacking,” July 5).
We must always resist pondering what our president can be saying if this had occurred in California relatively than Texas. That means lies insanity.
I do not know what the political and social viewpoints are of the heartbroken folks left behind, but it surely shouldn’t make any distinction. It didn’t make any distinction to the floodwaters and it shouldn’t make any distinction to us. They’re our countrymen, and so they want and deserve our help — financially, socially and in any conversations we would overhear that sound on the contrary.
We must always all pray, in our personal means, for the day once we can work collectively once more to attempt to clear up our nation’s issues.
Patrick McNulty, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem mentioned the Trump administration would make it a precedence to improve Nationwide Climate Service know-how used to ship warnings. Somebody ought to inform her that, as workers author Hayley Smith factors out, “the Trump administration is planning to chop hundreds extra staff subsequent 12 months — roughly 17% of its workforce — and slash the NOAA’s funds by greater than $1.5 billion, in keeping with the fiscal 2026 funds request” (“Texas flood highlights lethal local weather danger from excessive climate,” July 6).
Kennedy Gammage, San Diego
