Devastating floods in Texas
River waters rose 29 feet (nine metres)
From the mainstream
Texas floods: Death toll rises to 27, dozens of girls still missing
A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash flooding in Hunt, Texas. Photo: RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP
Some 27 people, including nine children, have been confirmed dead after flash floods in central Texas, authorities said on Saturday, as rescuers continued a frantic search for survivors including dozens still missing from a girls' summer camp.
The sheriff's office in Kerr County, Texas said more than 800 people had been evacuated from the region as flood waters receded in the area around the Guadalupe River, about 137km northwest of San Antonio.
"We will not stop until every single person is found," Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a news conference. At least 23 to 25 people from the Camp Mystic summer camp were missing, most of them reported to be young girls.
The river waters rose 29 feet (nine metres) rapidly near the camp. The US National Weather Service said that the flash flood emergency has largely ended for Kerr County, the epicentre of the flooding, following thunderstorms that dumped as much as 15 inches (380mm) of rain - half of the total the region sees in a typical year. A flood watch remained in effect until 7pm for the broader region.
Kerr County sits in the Texas Hill Country, a rural area known for its rugged terrain, historic towns and other tourist attractions. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said up to 500 rescue workers were searching for an unknown number of missing people, including some who had come to the area for an Independence Day celebration by the river.
"We don't know how many people were in tents on the side, in small trailers by the side, in rented homes by the side, because it was going to be the Fourth of July holiday," he said on Fox News Live.
Flooding caused by a flash flood at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. Photo: RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP
Camp Mystic had 700 girls in residence at the time of the flood, according to Patrick. Another girls' camp, Heart O' the Hills, said on its website that co-owner Jane Ragsdale had died in the flood but no campers had been present as it was between sessions.
US President Donald Trump said the federal government is working with state and local officials to respond to the flooding. "Melania and I are praying for all of the families impacted by this horrible tragedy. Our Brave First Responders are on site doing what they do best," he said on social media.
Videos posted online showed bare concrete platforms where homes used to stand and piles of rubble along the banks of the river. Rescuers plucked residents from rooftops and trees, sometimes forming human chains to fetch people from the floodwater, local media reported.
Dalton Rice, city manager for Kerrville, the county seat, told reporters on Friday that the extreme flooding struck before dawn with little or no warning, precluding authorities from issuing advance evacuation orders as the Guadalupe River swiftly rose above major flood stage in less than two hours.
State emergency management officials had warned as early as Thursday that west and central Texas faced heavy rains and flash flood threats, citing National Weather Service forecasts ahead of the holiday weekend.
The forecasts, however, "did not predict the amount of rain that we saw", W Nim Kidd, director of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, told a news conference on Friday night.
The weekend disaster echoes a catastrophic 1987 Guadalupe River flood in which 10 teenagers drowned when trying to leave a church camp, according to the National Weather Service.
Questions are being asked.
There is a lot on X
https://x.com/In2ThinAir/status/1941170468817412485
🚨 TEXAS FLOODS AFTER “BLUE RAIN” – 7 STATE-RUN CLOUD SEEDING PROGRAMS EXPOSED
by Eliza Ayres
🚨 TEXAS FLOOD: “WE KNEW IT WAS COMING” – BUT THEY DIDN’T EVACUATE THE CAMPS
“Why weren’t these camps evacuated?”
Top official: “I can’t answer that.”
They had the warnings.
They knew the river was deadly.
They knew the flood was coming.
And they left the kids there.
Now children are missing.
Cities are underwater.
And the same official shrugs:
“We deal with floods all the time… we didn’t know it’d be this bad.”
They had the alerts.
They had the timeline.
They had the responsibility.
And they failed.
(Video in Link)
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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump says Kristi Noem is PERSONALLY coming here to Texas Hill Country to help direct federal relief efforts amid flooding
FINALLY a DHS Secretary and President who actually care to help the victims!
We’ve already seen Coast Guard search planes deployed by Noem overhead.
Thank you 47 and @Sec_Noem! See you soon.
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Notes to Readers:
Looks like government officials are finally admitting weather modification is a dangerous practice.
Folks, I’ve known about cloud seeding since 2nd grade elementary school. I overheard Dad talking to one of his Alaskan bush pilot buddies, a veteran from WWII. This was in the late 1950’s.
Thing is, the U.S. military (and other countries’) wanted to control the weather and use it as a weapon against “the enemy”. Well, mismanaged weather modification is killing people now, little kids at summer camp.
There ought to be a law… as the old saying goes. Problem was most people didn’t believe weather modification was even a thing until the incidents with Western North Carolina, Eastern Tennessee, the Midwestern tornadoes, and now Texas floods. You can’t just tell the people, you have to show them…
Was this intentional? Was this tragedy preventable?
It would appear all state-run weather programs and NOAA need to have the Democrats, all climate change idiots, removed from their employment, just like USAID.
Eliza
Thanks for the good, comprehensive article.
I'm angry that these children are missing. These types of floods build over several days, and I'm nonplussed why these children weren't evacuated and taken to higher ground. I've so far concluded that the adults didn't understand the severity or badly misjudged the circumstances.
Majorie is becoming my spokeswoman. The last couple of bills and resolutions she's introduced have been issues I've long wanted addressed. States can pass all the legislation they like about chemtrails, but the fact remains that the federal .gov is responsible for the spraying and this issue needs to be addressed at the federal level. Thanks, Majorie!! Hope some type of legislation gets passed.
Nexrad radars are controlling, stirring, giving speed and throwing the artificial weather pattern as "flood" in Texas. Who is behind the destruction and dead in Texas? There hasn’t been any natural weather on this planet for a very long time. https://youtu.be/sZyVnrmcZSY?si=sdDppqZWYbDK_BhL