There are plenty of legitimate questions swirling around the devastating flooding in Texas last weekend that left at least 100 people dead. They include questions about emergency alert funding decisions made by Texas’ Republican state legislature and about cuts to federal agencies implemented by the Trump administration that may have affected how the emergency response was handled. They also include questions raised in recent reporting from the Texas Tribune, which found the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Austin/San Antonio office announced in April that he would retire early as a result of federal funding cuts.