Texas flash floods kill more than 100 people as more victims expected
By late afternoon on Monday the death toll from the flash floods that have wreaked devastation in Texas since Friday had exceeded 100 and is expected to rise further as more victims are found and more rain threatens to deluge the region.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/texas-floods-summer-camp-death-toll-victimsOpen linkView original on sopuli.xyz
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God damn, why am I not surprised that Republicans voted down a grant for counties to upgrade/improve/develop disaster response infrastructure.
i will not hear about a 4am flood warning unless my phone went crazy. isn't there a system in place to cause the phones to warm people about emergencies?
But it shouldn't be hard to predict that this rain will all drain into rivers such as the one bordering on this camp even if it falls miles and miles away.
As a texan would say: it's god's will
They're busy blaming it on gays from California
Funny how God punishes little girls in Texas for the sins of gay people in California.
"gawd works in mysterious ways"
And my own.
If only there was some way to warn people of serious weather conditions. Maybe in 100 years the tech will exist to predict, notify, and evacuate people in a timely manner before the storms arrive.
There was a bill that the state voted down: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/06/texas-disaster-warning-emergency-communication-bill-kerrville-floods/
The 1-star state ya'll
They can still get every cell phone in the state to freak the fuck out at 4:50am because someone in the panhandle took a potshot at a cop.
Last I checked, the total number of dead and missing was 130. I hope the final number of deaths ends up being less than 130.
Very late update: sadly, the number seems likely to grow as many more missing persons have come to light. This was a serious tragedy. The avoidable nature of it is the most frustrating thing. The deaths feel predictable, given the well-documented history of the area. Last I heard the count was 110+ dead and at least another 170 missing.
I know people want to pin this on trump, but I don’t see it. The nation system did what it usually does. Now maybe it should have done more. But that would be on not just trump, but the administrations that preceeded him too. Like why did so many people not get the alert? That isn't a new problem, but one that isn't getting solved.
The rest of the blame is local. Texas does run away from regulations. And clearly anyone housing children in a flood plain should have some regulations to keep those kids safe. Maybe they exist but weren't enforced, I dunno.
No child deserved to die before they had a chance to decide thier own idealogy as an adult.
Cheering for the adults who died is no better than cheering a out ICE raids. Neither targeted "bad" people.
It's a cold and heartless silver lining, but hey… fewer Texans.
Kindness and compassion towards life is how we heal the planet.
This does not mean we have to endlessly suffer their intolerance, or never punish the wicked and the greedy.
It means that when a tragedy befalls a problematic group of people, we empathize first and then after the immediate situation is adequately addressed, we demand accountability from everyone responsible.