Posted on 07/06/2025 6:57:51 PM PDT by Morgana
Flood-ravaged parts of Texas are set to be pounded by an additional 'wall of water' officials have warned, as they announced a new wave of evacuations.
Nim Kidd, Chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, advised Kerr County to brace for more of the deadly rains which have already claimed the lives of at least 80 people.
'There are unconfirmed at this point reports of additional water coming in. And as the governor mentioned, there's rain still falling on the area,' Kidd said at a press conference.
'We've got DPS aircraft that are flying up to try to find this wall of water right now, and the people in the reported areas, again, unconfirmed, that are on our communication systems.'
Locals in central Texas are being urged to scramble to higher ground following further flash flood warnings as a result of further rain falling on saturated ground.
Among the deceased so far are at least five young girls, aged between eight and nine, whose summer camp in Hunt, Texas was swept away by the floods in the early hours of July 4. Rescue workers said at least 11 other campers are still missing.
So far 40 adults and 28 children have died in total, after the Guadalupe River rose more than 26 feet in just 45 minutes, pounding Kerr County communities with flash flooding.
It comes after the Trump administration made major cuts to federal funding, impacting agencies like FEMA which lead the response to natural disasters.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The state of Texas has 254 counties.
This article is about one of them.
Texas is much larger than the entire British Isles.
It comes after the Trump administration made major cuts to federal funding, impacting agencies like FEMA which lead the response to natural disasters.
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Their response to the flooding in North Carolina is exemplary
People no longer watch the weather on TV. They rely on their phones for updates and bulletins. The Prius that those bulletins tell them what is happening not a forecast for what will happen.
By the time the phone alerted them it was to late.
Part of the problem was people relying on cellphone and not looking at a weather forecast.
Problem not Prius. The woman who lives in the dash board isn’t a metrologist. She just reads maps.
The NWS and TWS got the warnings out in a timely manner. The TWS had 3 extra people on duty. Trump’s funding cuts had nothing to do with this outcome.
Save the blame game until we have finished finding the bodies.
Daily Mail is lying in this article. There were actually a larger crew of Weather Service working that night because of the floods.
High time people speak out and quit letting these liars put the blame on the new admin.
So?
Don’t tell ME that.
I’ve been saying the exact same, to all.
Tell the OP that for posting the lib DM article.
Sheesh.
Headline:
....”threat hangs over Texas”....
is wildly misleading.
Part of the problem was people relying on cellphone
and not looking at a weather forecast.
********
IMO the cell phone is making stides towards being
the ruler of what we do most days outside of work.
Be indifferent, good or bad it makes determinations
for the users be they good, indifferent or bad.
It’s a headline. YOu only get a couple of words.
The DM has been lying about this, since they first ran with this tragic story.
Just like Lying George Stephanopoulos who’s at it, again, spreading lies on this ...I guess he wants another lawsuit.
They need to add one small word....
County!
“It comes after the Trump administration made major cuts to federal funding, impacting agencies like FEMA which lead the response to natural disasters.”
Let’s compare the federal response to this with its response to Helene, when it was fully funded, shall we?
But not known how water is flowing down the water shed from all the AM & PM rains.
New weather system has not yet entered Texas from New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Gimme a break. There is no wall of water. Just some rises in the river from more rain.
They already used 18 words and said that it was just the evacuees being told to get to higher ground.
Not sure how any sentient human would presume that all of Texas was being flooded.
Daily Mail is all about sensationalism. They exaggerate almost everything..
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