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Texas: 13 Dead, 23 Missing in Catastrophic Flooding

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.

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"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."

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MAGA!!

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-04 06:50 PM | Reply

Obligatory:

"Well, it's floodin' down in Texas, all of the telephone lines are down."

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#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-04 07:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Oops! wrong link.

Here's ya go:

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#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-04 07:35 PM | Reply

That's why I don't fly in helicopters.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-04 07:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

good riddance :)

many more to come!

#5 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-07-04 08:34 PM | Reply

Doesn't Hot Wheels prefer Texans to freeze to death?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-05 02:44 AM | Reply

WWJD (who would jesus drown)

#7 | Posted by freewilly at 2025-07-05 04:38 AM | Reply

I guess Abbot knows better than to ask King Dotard and FEMA for help. They're too busy down in the Everglades.

#8 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-07-05 06:44 AM | Reply

"No one knew this flood was coming," Kelly said. "We have floods all the time."

Is this what's meant by a diminishing-returns learning curve?

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-05 06:46 AM | Reply

good riddance :)

many more to come!

#5 | POSTED BY BILLY_BOY AT 2025-07-04 08:34 PM | FLAG:

Doesn't Hot Wheels prefer Texans to freeze to death?

#6 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT AT 2025-07-05 02:44 AM | FLAG:

This has become the new face of the Democratic Party - and you're confused as to why the party sits around 27% approval.

Losers. Both of you

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-05 08:20 AM | Reply

"No one knew this flood was coming," Kelly said. "We have floods all the time."

Looks like this guy is walking both sides of the fence.

These children could have been saved. Everyone saw that weather coming.

But MAGA culture has a strange relationship with weather and predicting it.

The evidence is that they can't be bothered to predict it.

Too much money spent to justify the knowing.

And so everyone decided to forget that heavy rains, even hundreds of miles away, cause flooding downstream.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-05 08:47 AM | Reply

Losers. Both of you

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds

People are adopting a fatalism in response to yours.

MAGA: "People Die".

Everyone else: "See, people are dead".

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-05 08:48 AM | Reply

Turdfyck the dumbass.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-05 10:21 AM | Reply

Update...

24 dead in Texas flash flooding; search continues for more than 20 missing from camp
www.nbcnews.com

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-05 10:42 AM | Reply

This has become the new face of the Democratic Party - and you're confused as to why the party sits around 27% approval.

Losers. Both of you

#10 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It's hardly "the new face" of anything.

And after the GOP's behavior after the killing of the MN state senators/reps, you don't have any room for that broad brush.

Maybe you should worry about being consistent in your own expressions of thought and leave the BS behind.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-05 10:48 AM | Reply

Maybe you should worry about being consistent in your own expressions of thought and leave the BS behind.

#15 | Posted by jpw

That would be the same as resigning from MAGA,

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-05 10:59 AM | Reply

Now, after severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump's new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel.

At a press conference last night, one official said: "The original forecast we received on Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6" of rain in the Concho Valley and 4-8" of rain in the hill country. The amount of rain that fell in these locations was never in any of their forecasts. Everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service. They did not predict the amount of rain that we saw."

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#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-05 11:22 AM | Reply

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