Water rescues and evacuations are underway in central Texas Friday morning after torrential sent river levels surging and triggering deadly flash flooding. At a news conference late Friday morning, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly declined to specify the number of casualties or missing, but said authorities may do so Friday afternoon. Kerr County is about 75 miles west of Austin. Kelly said they have yet to identify most of the dead. "We're having to fingerprint them at the funeral home. One of them was completely naked, didn't have any ID on them at all," he said. Kerr County is home to many summer camps, and some of the children attending them are among the missing or stranded. At the news conference, a reporter pressed Kelly on why the camps had not been evacuated on Thursday after an advisory from the Texas Department of Emergency Management.
"No one knew this flood was coming," Kelly said. "We have floods all the time. This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States and we deal with floods on a regular basis. When it rains, we get water. We had no reason to believe this was going to be anything like what's happened here. None whatsoever."
Update...
24 dead in Texas flash flooding; search continues for more than 20 missing from camp
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It doesn't take much to know when a flood warning needs to be issued via all media.
#51 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY A
Seems like there was ...
A flash flood watch was issued at 1:18 pm on Thursday. (O.NEW.KEWX.FF.A.0001.250704T1858Z-250705T0000Z/)
A flash flood warning was issued at 1am (O.NEW.KEWX.FL.W.0002.250704T0700Z-250705T0000Z)
A flash flood emergency was issued soon after (O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0052.250704T0800Z-250705T0200Z/ and O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0056.250704T0930Z-250705T0300Z/)
www.weather.gov
Do you guys do any research or you just shooting from the hip?
#57 | POSTED BY ROBSON
What are you talking about?
Both warnings posted by NWS were clear cut and bold about this being life threatening, and location, even mentioning "campers" and "Kerrville". The flash flood emergency issued at 5:34 am on July 4th. "AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES A LARGE AND DEADLY WAVE IS MOVING DOWN THE GUADALUPE RIVER". The first warning was issued at 1:14 am. There were already 5 warnings/advisories issued by NWS by 2 am. Kerr County and the surrounding regions were put under a flood watch on July 3rd. I don't feel natural disaster needs blamed on anyone, but as someone who watched these warnings being issued. The NWS couldn't have done better in this one.
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I noted and cited the times. And I also note the lack of an answer to a direct question I asked. So lame.
Its not a direct question, the answer is in the post, you're just to stupid to read and understand it. You can't understand the post that's because you're an idiot.
Let me spoon feed the DR's biggest baby.
forecast.weather.gov
Gaslighter if you can even use a website ....
More baby food for the DR's biggest baby.
theeyewall.substack.com
You're so weak its funny seeing an American struggle like this, I usually don't see it. Alex can at least navigate a website.
@#78 ... Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts ...
Yeah, now "forecasting" seems to be more "current-forecasting' based upon the Texas disaster in which children have died.
Children died.
Was that a goal of Pres Trump?
Killing children?
Seems to be the case.
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children (May 2025)
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... Gates, 69, criticized the shuttering of the agency, accusing Musk of risking a resurgence of diseases such as measles, HIV and polio.[emphasis mine]
"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," he told the Financial Times.
"I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money," Gates said of Musk. ...
Update ...
At least 47 dead in central Texas in devastating flash floods, over two dozens remain missing, officials say
www.cbsnews.com
... At least 47 people are dead in central Texas in what officials called a "mass casualty event" after devastating flash floods slammed Hill Country, with water rescues taking place along the Guadalupe River.
While officials couldn't confirm an exact number of those who remain unaccounted for, they said more than two dozen were still missing from Camp Mystic in Kerr County, a children's summer camp.
At least 43 fatalities have been reported so far in Kerr County, its sheriff, Larry Leitha, said at a news conference Saturday evening. The dead include 28 adults and 15 children. Twelve of the adults and five children are unidentified, Leitha said. At least 27 campers were missing, Dalton Rice, Kerryville city manager, said. There were about 750 children at Camp Mystic when the floods hit, the sheriff said. ...
At least 49 dead in Texas floods, with dozens still missing from summer camp
www.nbcnews.com
Children dying.
"Multiple advanced warnings 12+ hours in advance"
You're conflating a watch with a warning. Warnings didn't happen until 1am Friday.
abcnews.go.com
Deaths in Central Texas floods surpass 50, Camp Mystic girls still missing
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This is bad.
Texas floods leave at least 51 dead, 27 girls missing as rescuers search devastated landscape
apnews.com
This is so very bad.
Noem addresses concerns over federal government's warnings
www.nbcnews.com
... Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addressed concerns over whether the federal government did enough to warn Texans about the deadly floods.
When asked by a reporter " who identified himself as a resident of Kerrville "if the federal government's foresight around the storm was a "failure," Noem said at a press conference alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that "everybody knows that the weather is extremely difficult to predict." ...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters' ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service were unfilled as severe rainfall inundated parts of Central Texas on Friday morning, prompting some experts to question whether staffing shortages made it harder for the forecasting agency to coordinate with local emergency managers as floodwaters rose.
Texas officials appeared to blame the Weather Service for issuing forecasts on Wednesday that underestimated how much rain was coming. But former Weather Service officials said the forecasts were as good as could be expected, given the enormous levels of rainfall and the storm's unusually abrupt escalation.
The staffing shortages suggested a separate problem, those former officials said " the loss of experienced people who would typically have helped communicate with local authorities in the hours after flash flood warnings were issued overnight.
#163: The EPA suspended 139 employees for writing a scathing letter criticizing Dummkopf Trumpf's idiotic policies: www.cbsnews.com
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