The public is overwhelmingly heartbroken and angry over the catastrophic Texas floods, attributing significant blame to government negligence in disaster preparedness and inadequate responses. There is widespread frustration regarding budget cuts to essential services, particularly those affecting weather forecasting and emergency management, leading to unnecessary loss of life, especially among children. Many calls for accountability and improved systems resonate throughout the discussions.

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I hope the people safely got out of that car with the lights on.

FlyAwayJai

Life Pro Tip: your deck wasn’t built to withstand that, and you don’t want to be standing on it if it washes away.

St_Kevin_

Insane how powerful water is. RIP to all the victims.

Calibred2

These storms are wild and only getting worse.

Its a good thing trump gutted FEMA and the NOAA /s

The wildest part is there are people there in that mess right now who still support cheeto Benito

livefast-diefree

I get that this feels like a sensitive time, and I absolutely agree that it’s heartbreaking that people lost their lives. But acknowledging the policy decisions that may have contributed to this tragedy isn’t about scoring political points—it’s about accountability and prevention.

When Trump defunded key organizations that could have helped predict or warn about flooding risks, it wasn’t just some abstract decision. It had real-world consequences, and we’re seeing them now. That’s not “making it political”—it’s recognizing cause and effect.

Saying “don’t make it political” can be a way to shut down important conversations about how we got here and how to do better next time. If we’re serious about preventing tragedies, we have to be willing to talk about the decisions and systems that make them worse.

137thaccount

We have the best floods our floods are the fastest and sneakiest floods you will not believe it

![gif](giphy|mEgfNLKL54okcclPyA|downsized)

wabbanation

Thoughts and prayers from MAGA gonna have to do a lot of heavy lifting here

Aeceus

Sad that this was generally preventable with the proper warning from the weather services. I wonder why there wasn’t any warning? /s

Brent_L

rwhitener

gcartnick

iamBreadPitt

sanctus20

Good thing I don’t believe in global warming or this could be alarming.

Sexlexia619

These videos hit harder after what happened in WNC last year. Idc who you voted for I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.

KerryUSA

Trump policies in action. Blood on his hands.

I feel for the victims...this didn't have to happen.

blac_sheep90

see the problem is the river name sounds like an illegal, if we change it to a proper American name this wouldn’t happen.

forfunstuffwinkwink

Goddamn...way to go texas...shitpoor respond every fucking time...be it blizzards or flood...

kr4ckenm3fortune

That car was on… someone was hitting the breaks

Professional-Ad4073

People need to steel themselves and prepare for more unnecessary lives lost. This administration this government doesn’t give a fuck who you are if you don’t have enough decimals in your net worth. Every motherfucker not on their level is disposable and apparently not enough people learned that lesson during covid.

lvs621

Good thing climate change doesn't exist in Red States. That would have REALLY been bad.

Raise-Emotional

This is a tragedy, there was a preventable loss of life, so many lives have been lost and ruined.

Blame solely rests on the current administration. Make it political. Every single person that voted for this is responsible as well. 

Here is one of the first major losses of life as a direct result of the administration. Hold them accountable. Give them no rest.

luffydkenshin

Cool how the tree goes through the deck leading to an awesome assassin's creed path

Lamech

You think this is a message from god? Like hey Americans stop doing what your doing. Maybe it was the bill that was just passed or the alligator concentration camp just built

b_buddd

xxshadowraidxx

Texas overwhelming voted for Trump. This is on them.

FunEngineer69

GodIsAnAnimeGirl

We are now on our own and insurance premiums are going to skyrocket............it's all the Democrats fault why would they do this?

showersrover8ed

If Trump doesn't mention it, it's not true, right?

JulesSilverman

Texas? It means they voted for trump right? 😅

pachniuchers

paddenice

Nh32dog

In his own words, the NWS predicted 4”-8” of rain. That is already a huge amount for an area that gets about 30” a year; a quarter of your annual rainfall in 1-2 days. 

It sounds like he is blaming the NWS for predicting a very large event instead of a massive event.

Twisted_lurker

wait until they find out fema isn't coming and they spent their money building a gulag in Florida

auditor2

Remind me again, who gutted the National Weather Service? DOGE?

Lostlilegg

They’re blaming an inaccurate forecast?

[Hmmm… it looks like they were notified of flash flood potential and sat on the info for four hours.](https://www.kxan.com/investigations/conflicting-officials-social-posts-leave-evacuation-delays-questions-in-kerr-county-flooding/amp/)

Maybe they should have a text-based warning system like we have in Travis County to notify residents instead of waiting on Glenda the early bird to get into the office and make a FB post?

Nah, that’s some liberal overreach - we take care of our own around here.

Birdamus

Rypskyttarn

National weather service issued a flood warning at 1:16. local officials were silent for hours afterwards  
[https://www.kxan.com/investigations/conflicting-officials-social-posts-leave-evacuation-delays-questions-in-kerr-county-flooding/](https://www.kxan.com/investigations/conflicting-officials-social-posts-leave-evacuation-delays-questions-in-kerr-county-flooding/)

rdking647

"dont politicize this event" our lawmakers are already doing that 🙃

What do you think is the point of noaa / nws and local county emergency preparedness? Army corp of engineers can only do so much advising but at the end of the day it's up to private entities and individuals and public officials to utilize those suggestions for the safety of all. 

Now is not the time to point fingers if you're going to ignore that reality. For now just do better and keep the loved ones affected by this disaster in your minds, do what you can to help.

_afflatus

Meteorologist Steve Brown, who used to be on local San Antonio TV and is now retired (I follow him on FB), predicted something similar would happen 3 days before it happened.

He pointed out that 23 years ago, from July 1–5, 2002, San Antonio had over 15 inches of rain, and areas near Comfort got more than 48 inches. Canyon Lake overflowed for the first and only time, creating a gorge and washing out the road below. Medina Lake almost overflowed too, prompting evacuation orders. He stated the week’s weather map showed some similarities. Tropical moisture from Barry moved into South Texas. Back in 2002, a weak upper-level low combined with the tropical moisture caused rainbands to stall over the same areas, leading to major flooding. This similar upper low formed again this week.

His main conclusion was it was something to keep an eye on—especially if you were camping near rivers. Tropical rain can be intense and challenging to predict exactly.

A predicted 4”-8” inches of rain is significant in magnitude. Even 2” of predicted rain makes me cancel plans, now image 4x that percentage, and then stating that the weather forecast wasn’t reliable is so stupid. Even though it was off, it was definitely something to at least continuously monitor and be on high alert.

thespaniard1992

They defund these things for this exact reason — to say see we told these programs were useless

GalacticFartLord

Didn't Trump literally reduce funding for this type of stuff? Secondly, meteorology is more of an art than a science, there's no way to have 100% correct results. Thirdly, you are discussing factors that have nothing to do with SPECIFICALLY the rain, you are introducing variables that meteorologists have nothing to do with, and in fact, would be on YOUR hands to know that rain, of almost any kind, in those areas, could be a flood risk.

Wuuuut? Republicans buck passing responsibility onto someone other than themselves?

Hefty_Drawing_5407

“They did not predict the amount of rain that we saw”

Yes this tends to happen when the moisture content of the atmosphere is much higher in current year due to artificial alterations to the atmosphere that are not represented in our models BECAUSE WE HAVE CHANGED THE CLIMATE to the the point that we lose the ability to predict events like these accurately

Im_Balto

At the end of the day it's not the NWS who issues the evacuations. It's the county judge and there is proof out there this county judge was aware but didn't issue the evacuations. This is not the first time or will it be the last time a judge in a small county who only cares about himself, politics and as much money they can put in their pockets will not issue an evacuation order for those who are actually vulnerable. Nim Kid the chief over TDEM blaming the NWS is just politics and him selling his soul even further down the line.

popek82

June 11, 2025: Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) after the hurricane season and that states would receive less federal aid to respond to natural disasters.

Texas folk are always bragging about their boots, time for them to find their bootstraps.

FunkyPlunkett

These guys will be the first to say climate change isn’t real. Intense single-day precipitation events are growing more frequent, fueled by warming air that can hold increasing levels of moisture.

lbtorr2

I remember when Harvey was on its way to Houston. Local news was saying 8-10" but that one post was going around saying 50. Who could fathom 50" of rain. Local govt swore that was a lie. And then places got 50" of rain. 

It sucks when you feel like you were mislead about the severity of a situation. 

Kerrville needed water. Canyon Lake is only half full. But God damn this was too much too fast. I'm heartbroken for everyone who is affected by this 💔

Pearl-2017

But did governer abbot try raking the river?

 Maybe that would have prevented this. 

It's just so hard to have sympathy for anything that happens in Texas when you live here and see posts and people IRL talking about California wildfires with glee.

Talkiesoundbox

Step 1. Demonize a program to justify cutting its funding.

Step 2. Demonstrate the programs' new failures and argue it isn't needed.

Step 3. Eliminate the program.

obie-one

Who gutted that weather service? That’s what I fn thought.

Thanks to "DOGE", Americans (including children) are needlessly dead. Was it worth the trillion dollar tax breaks for the top 1%?

dust-ranger

Is anyone surprised? All these men know how to do is point the finger. It’s absurd to think they would ever take responsibility for anything.

libellulebisou

Never mind the GOP has consistently ignored the actual need for a warning system because they’ve been too busy targeting gays &amp; immigrants instead.

DGinLDO

Here you go

How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost Lives | Scientific American https://share.google/sFw2irJxiYGJylkmr

mightyjoe227

Jesus Christ. This is fucking embarrassing. This is Texas officials trying to shed blame. I don't know if there's any blame to be spread here. This is an act of God. Let's keep looking for those children.

Faceit_Solveit

Texas has got to be one of the most deadly states for children

endlessswan

Fuck them. Do not allow these ghouls to shift blame. This administration gutted the greatest service any country ever produced. The blood is on their hands.

THAWED21

RegularFan

Don’t blame the NWS, just be sure to thank Trump instead.

TedBaxter_WJM-TVNews

This is the Republican way; defund it, then blame it when it can't do its job.

Alarmed_Pie_5033

typical GOP, shifting the blame.  It's their DOGE that made cuts to NWS and NOAA.  their DOGE that let hundreds of staffers to that group go.  They need to just shut up and own their fuck up.

netrixtardis

Typical Republican officials in Texas. They had all the info they needed and will blame others and take no personal responsibility. In reality, there were forecasts for heavy rain days before with the forecast continuing to get worse and worse. In the hill country, this should ring alarm bells because localized areas will inevitably get slammed as has happened in the past. The officials also could have learned from past floods and installed a warning system.

mirach

ItsJustBrew

After the 2015 Wimberly flash flood deaths, I was under the impression that counties prone to river flooding had all installed new flood warning systems comprised of sensors at low-water crossings throughout their counties.

LindeeHilltop

DOGE cut 560 positions from the National Weather Service.

AggravatingBobcat574

NWS has become a victim of political sabotage. Defunding and getting denied access to DOD weather satellite data has a real impact. If TDEM is going to point fingers they at least need to point it in the right direction. Start with project 2025. TDEM can now mark off the killing of NWS as accomplishment.

JuanBadFinger

Bonus: Guess which group of people (immigrants) typically do most of the manual labor in situations like this once cleanup begins.

DeadbeatJohnson

Republicans "don't politicize this"

Also Republicans "we are gonna politicize this".

 Well, you voted to defend the national weather service.

CidO807

Fuck him.  Way to try and kick the can. No getting around that local and county government is 100% responsible for not having flash flood warning systems near young people knowing those camps were there. Everyone trying to get out of responsibility.

FruitySalads

Just like Uvalde, they'll blame everything but their own incompetence.

TheThurmanMerman

"The government doesn't work and we'll prove it" - republicans

SavagRavioli

I see they are giving National Weather Service the “Texas Public School Treatment”: slash budgets, ignore reason and refuse responsibility, then complain and blame the few remaining woefully underfunded public servants.

FierceBadRabbits

They did the same with education. Ruined it, then said it was bad and used it to force vouchers.

That is always their plan because the media or amyone around them never calls them out or make them accountable.

maaseru

How was the National Weather Service going to know that this would happen? The NWS can only predict what the weather could do, not what it will do. It just shows how little how some of the people in the State of Texas Government know about weather other than listening to the radio or watching TV.

sftexfan

They are using the situation as an excuse for further defending.

And they will blame Democrats, not Trump or Republicans.

HopeFloatsFoward

And Ironsides had the nerve to roll in the room and tell everyone the thing to do is “look to God Almighty”. What the fuck is that gunna do for these 24+ families? Would be a shame if he rolled a little too close to the Guadeloop.

hockenduke

After the Memorial Day flood you would think that we as a State would be prepared for anything like this and yet, here we are

Queasy_Car7489

![gif](giphy|I3WAJgc0J61Xxkff5o)

Remember when this guy gutted the NWS? And FEMA

RunNo9247

This is exactly the Republican play book. Defund a public good to the point where it cannot function, claim it doesn't function because it's inefficient, corrupt, or biased, sell the public good to the highest bidder so it becomes privatized and profit driven and the people have to pay to benefit from a worse version of it

killthepatsies

Typical BS concerning our fascist Texas government.  They could care less how many due in this state or how

6catsforya

People vote for Republicans to ban Transgender athletes, deport immigrants, shutdown BLM protests, and to general just harass people they see as enemies. Good governance is never part of the deal..

Retribution and punitive measures seldom come with thoughtfulness or expertise.

8to24

Forecasts are predictions. Also, 8” of rain in that short of a time is a LOT. Flash flood warnings happen with less than that depending on area. 

That said, I’m sure eradicating the NWS and access to satellite data won’t help.

Flabbergasted_____

“Let’s burn down the Meteorological Office so this never happens again”

Republicans

BadgersFannyBatter

First, the loss of lives is very sad and that so many are missing is heartbreaking. And this is one of those worst-case scenarios where you start to pick apart the risk points that weren't addressed and figure out it had less to do with NWS than it has to do with human nature. (and when people start pointing fingers, wrong or right). So what would actually have helped here?

For one thing, if people turn off their NWS weather alerts when camping along a river (all of which at some point are going to flood), that is human error. And when camp hierarchy puts the younger kids in cabins down nearer the river than the older kids, that's lack of real risk assessment and leaves the younger kids in extreme danger unnecessarily.

Would a boat-based horn alarm system have helped in this situation? Perhaps. As a practice at least it might catch those who didn't have access to weather alerts. But flash floods are tricky and the water volume for this one was insane.

When flood level rains are predicted, a procedure that mandates moving camp site further up grade as far as possible or evacuating a camping site or camp compound entirely (if the worst-case flood level elevation can't be reached in an emergency) would be a much better choice.

Illumamoth1313

This  whole thing is like the scene in Jaws about keeping the beaches open on the 4th of July.  They had adequate information in front of them to make the call.  They didn't want to do it because of the impact it would have on local businesses.  Doesn't get much more American than that.

gurilagarden

If you watched the 9pm press conference you would see the governor, the LT governor and the sheriff all trying to cover their asses. It was sickening to watch. They also spent more time talking about God than the missing kids, the sick assholes.

SteveBored

There are kids missing right now.  If you lack control and have to turn this into a political issue, you're not welcomed here.

DisasterUpdate

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A lot of the videos are in Kerrville on the Guadalupe river. Reports were claiming it was like a 30 ft wave of water that rushed through out of nowhere

ShiftyShankerton

Did a river overflow? How does this happen?

Barnowl-hoot

Does anyone know what man-made dam is close by that regulates water into Guadalupe river's flow?

Kalissra999

Beyond sad and tragic. Sending love to all those affected.

sexy_cool_

texit_

When the 3-6 inches of rain predictions were empirically shown to be inaccurate, and the plethora of radars and other relevant equipment began showing a vastly different weather pattern indicative of torrential downpours, at what point were the individuals that were obviously going to be affected by that storm notified?
Were those people left to watch and experience everything unfold without so much as a warning of imminent danger?
And if so, why?
Were there across the board equipment failures in the area that never showed an accurate depiction of the storm’s severity?
Or was the storm acting in such an anonymous way that all relevant modern technology was incapable of producing and providing accurate data for the relevant experts to determine what was happening before and during the storm?
If these questions aren’t addressed immediately, the depth of this tragedy can never be known. 
Anything less than unmitigated fervor in seeking and obtaining the answers to the questions above (at a bare minimum), regardless of the costs or efforts required to do so, goes beyond the realm of what the public, and especially the victims, can be reasonably forced to accept.  If these questions fail to be answered, there’s a more than reasonable presumption of something truly sinister at play here.
My heart is broken for the victims.  Truly and wholeheartedly broken.  Please, for anyone reading this, please go beyond offering your thoughts and prayers in this matter.  Please join me in demanding answers from ALL of the individuals in the positions to have those answers.  Do not cast blame upon any of those individuals until we have ALL of the facts from every relevant source and relevant individual.  Do NOT allow one or two people to become the spokespersons for explanations of this tragedy.  There are dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals with relevant firsthand knowledge of what transpired leading up to this tragedy, and if you’re like me and want the answers that every single victim unequivocally DESERVES to know, let’s not stop demanding answers until we have ALL of them.  We cannot allow this to fall by the wayside.  We cannot allow this to become an event that we move on from until we know all there is to know.  The victims will never have the luxury of being directly unaffected.  They will carry the burden with them forever.  And while they’re currently too affected to focus on the questions above, very soon they’ll be asking the same questions.  The best way to help them carry the weight is to get now the answers they’ll soon be needing.  God Bless.

thelegalstandard

The recent catastrophic floods in Texas have resulted in a significant loss of life, with the death toll climbing to at least 67, including 21 children. Melania Trump faced backlash for her inadequate response, while at least 59 individuals from a girls' summer camp, Camp Mystic, have been confirmed dead, and many remain missing. The floods struck with little warning, devastating the local community and raising questions about disaster preparedness and response. Rescue efforts continue amidst ongoing rainfall as families await news about their loved ones.

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