AI6YR BenJul 23, 2025

Texas Observer: The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn

There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.

"...There was little to no public memory. People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf...."

https://www.texasobserver.org/san-antonio-hill-country-floods-history-1921-2025/

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The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn

There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.

The Texas Observer
AI6YR BenJul 14, 2025

The Guardian: New account sheds light on chaotic hours at Texas girls camp hit by flood

Adult camp leader, who died trying to save small children, waited over an hour after alert before starting evacuation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/14/texas-floods-girls-camp-evacuation-delay

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Texas camp leader waited over an hour after flood warning to evacuate

Camp Mystic leader, who died trying to save small children, waited over an hour after alert before starting evacuation

The Guardian
Crooks&LiarsJul 13, 2025

While Texans mourn hundreds of dead from a flood catastrophe, JD Vance and family vacationed at Disneyland. #MAGACruelty #TXFlood

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/protesters-gave-vance-welcome-he-deserved?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=104592

Protesters Gave Vance The Welcome He Deserved At Disneyland

While Texans mourn hundreds of dead from a flood catastrophe, JD Vance and family vacationed at Disneyland.

Crooks and Liars
AI6YR BenJul 12, 2025

"But Syracuse University associate professor Sarah Pralle, who has extensively studied FEMA’s flood map determinations, said it was “particularly disturbing” that a camp in charge of the safety of so many young people would receive exemptions from basic flood regulation.

“It’s a mystery to me why they weren’t taking proactive steps to move structures away from the risk, let alone challenging what seems like a very reasonable map that shows these structures were in the 100-year flood zone,” she said."

https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investigation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929

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Dozens of Camp Mystic buildings removed from flood map in recent years, records show

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors. The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious camp for girls in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects. But in map amendments in 2013, 2019 and 2020, FEMA granted appeals to remove 30 Camp Mystic structures from the map. The amendments shielded buildings at the original site, as well as at a second camp site.

AP News
AI6YR BenJul 11, 2025

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Concerned that these articles need to exist.

TechCrunch: A cloud seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/a-cloud-seeding-startup-did-not-cause-the-texas-floods/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#disasters #txflood

A cloud-seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods | TechCrunch

Despite conspiracy theories, there's no way that cloud seeding operations days before the storm could have influenced the floods, scientists say.

TechCrunch
AI6YR BenJul 11, 2025

BBC: BBC on the ground in Texas as cadaver dogs search for missing flood victims

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c1e09zv2w8jo

#txflood #disaster

BBC in Texas as cadaver dogs search for missing flood victims

Carl Nasman reports alongside a search team on the Guadalupe River, as more than 150 remain missing nearly a week after deadly flooding.

AI6YR BenJul 10, 2025

AP: A small Texas community where everyone survived flooding has sirens that warned them

https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-sirens-warning-comfort-98701e8c74c680a5704264d863994b90

#disasters #flooding #txflood #alerts

Sirens warned of flooding in small Texas community where all survived

Officials at the Comfort Volunteer Fire Department triggered a flood warning siren last week when the Guadalupe River began to swell. If residents in the more than 2,200-person unincorporated community hadn't seen weather alerts on their phones, or heard firefighters who went to each street yelling for people to begin evacuating, they had been trained to know the sirens meant they needed to leave immediately. The department and the community cobbled together funding to install a flood warning system by refurbishing their old firehouse siren and applying for grants and other funding to install a river sensor gauge. Everyone in Comfort survived the July Fourth flooding.

AP News
AI6YR BenJul 10, 2025

TPM: DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-cancels-extreme-weather-comms-grant-while-bodies-still-being-recovered-in-texas/sharetoken/febf1fd1-7bb4-4134-8fcc-b10241da62f3

#disasters #texas #txflood #fema

DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas

As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash...

TPM - Talking Points Memo
scottymarinaraJul 6, 2025
with all the flooding along the guadalupe river in texas why the hell do theyt keep building church camps along that river this type of floode happened in 1987 and killed over 40 people! there was even a rescue 911 episode about it! not victim blaming, just incredulous! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DmbFL6Wsc #txflood
Rescue 911-Church bus

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Unofficial NWS Fort WorthMay 22, 2023
How (un)prepared are you for a flood? Take 2 minutes to watch this short video from @FEMA highlighting all the ways you can begin preparing for a flood NOW! #dfwwx #ctxwx #txwx #txflood #FloodReady https://t.co/BfxT3qdEUH
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“How (un)prepared are you for a flood? Take 2 minutes to watch this short video from @FEMA highlighting all the ways you can begin preparing for a flood NOW! #dfwwx #ctxwx #txwx #txflood #FloodReady”

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