And if the NOAA goes away, the government becomes smaller, and their taxes go down, right?
:/
EDIT: Dear downvoters - while this is not my opinion, this is how people think, what people believe. Dismiss it at your own risk.
And if the NOAA goes away, the government becomes smaller, and their taxes go down, right?
:/
EDIT: Dear downvoters - while this is not my opinion, this is how people think, what people believe. Dismiss it at your own risk.
The other problem here is that Accuweather charges huge fees for access to their forecasts and I'm not sure that I, as a private citizen, could afford that. So my choices go from pay a little bit of tax to get access to high-quality, reliable weather forecasts and warnings, to being totally unable to get access to this information without paying exorbitant fee. Or alternatively just not knowing these things and having to pay higher insurance costs for my ignorance.
This is a really good example of how making government smaller makes a lot of peoples' lives much crappier.
Although I agree I like NWS way more than Accuweather or weather.com, etc, and I would be sad if NWS were forced to take it down.
I used to work at a tv station and the Actual Meteorologists were very particular about not being confused with the "weather people."