There is a (effectively permanent) hiring freeze government wide so no one will likely replace them. The duties however were already spread amongst the existing staff which is why the flood warnings managed to get out to in advance and most counties were able to react in advance.

The county official in charge of actually evacuating people largely dropped the ball here by, in the past refusing to consider flood mititgation strategies the Weather Service reccomended years ago, and choosing to just not engage with the Weather Service when they were loudly screaming about incoming floods.

To contextualize this, County, State, and municipal emergency managers get access to a direct communication line with their local forecast office(s). They chose to not respond to the weather service issuing these warnings via that direct line.

It’s honestly exhausting that our media apparatus simultaneously tries to spin the Weather Service as both victims of this admins incompetence but also are historically the ones made out to have dropped the ball whenever a local emergency manager decides not to do their job.