Millions of Americans don’t speak English. Now they won’t be warned before weather disasters.
Millions of Americans don’t speak English. Now they won’t be warned before weather disasters.
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.
It's so bleak watching entire demographics of people being more-or-less openly categorised as expendable. Alerts intended to spur action in response to an impending disaster should be available to as many people as possible.
Even a selection of generic translations with a time inserted would be better than this, and it's heartwrenching that they're not even willing to put that tiny amount of effort in.
Trump has said that his favorite president is Andrew Jackson… the dude who perpetrated the Trail of Tears…
AFAIK the alert voices, like the ones for the NOAA, were automated already.
And the dude who sold off federal lands to private interests which created a real estate bubble. The real estate bubble popped and then crashed the entire United States economy into an arguably just as bad (or maybe worse) Depression from 1837-1845. That decade was rife with boot boiling poverty and unemployment.
So basically hitting all the notes
Which is funny because Andrew Jackson would beat Trump to death with his bare hands.
It's so bleak watching entire demographics of people being more-or-less openly categorised as expendable.
This is how you know you're dealing with Nazis.
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.
In our house, we would just walk out on the porch and watch the neat clouds for an hour or two.
Yeah, but they're not white so who cares? /s
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.
Well with the defunding of national weather services, speaking English doesn't help either
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