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Texas Tribune - As many as 13 bodies have been found and 23 girls from a private Christian girls’ camp unaccounted for after a catastrophic flood swept through Kerr County, Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/04/texas-flooding-deaths/

Death toll from Hill Country flash floods rises to 24 as rescue efforts continue

Local officials said they have rescued or evacuated more than 200 people since the Guadalupe River flooded early Friday morning, but the fate of more than 20 girls missing from a camp remains unclear.

The Texas Tribune

Steve Herman 22h ago

Update: (KXAN) – What should have been an annual day of celebration turned to tragedy as severe overnight storms caused an Independence Day flood killing at least 24 in Kerr County and leaving over 20 young girls missing. https://www.kxan.com/independence-day-floods/kerr-county-parents-grasp-for-information-about-missing-kids-after-independence-day-flood/

@w7voa This has happened before. in 1987. https://www.ksat.com/weather/2025/07/04/1987-when-the-guadalupe-river-turned-deadly/

1987: When the Guadalupe River turned deadly

On July 17, 1987, the final bus and van carrying the kids across the river, trying to escape the ensuing flood, was hit by a wall of water.

KSAT San Antonio

Paul Chambers🚧22h ago

@timo21 Jeebus. "On the night of July 16, 1987, just outside Comfort, the kids at Pot O’ Gold Christian Camp were settling in for their final night of the retreat..." While trying to evacuate the camp, a bus carrying 43 campers never made it across. Sadly, 10 of those on the bus drowned." @w7voa

@paul @w7voa Definitely systemic malfeasance that the exact same thing would happen again. Plenty of other places in the country had the Corps of Engineers come in and help to make sure a big flood not happen again, once a vulnerability was known. This is the life the
GOP wants for the rest of us.

Doug Baker - Elbows Up!1d ago

@w7voa where’s that God now, Christians. Tragedy.

Pusher of Pixels 1d ago

@w7voa “Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming,”

and thanks to Trump and the GOP....this will be a repeated experience.

@pixelpusher220 @w7voa July 3 Texas Observer
https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

The Texas Observer

Pusher of Pixels 1d ago

@timo21 @w7voa dereliction of journalistic responsibility to not state that clearly in the disaster article IMO

𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙 1d ago

If only we had, you know, something like FEMA.

@w7voa Don't worry, #FEMA will be there.

oh wait, they changed the channel oops.

We did once have the ability to rise to the occasion.
Not since Normandy mused Robert Bly when I last spoke with him, 10 years ago. R.I.P.
We need the honesty of a learned man who once fought Nazis, like he did, because now we must.

CaliCarol 1d ago

I am sorry for everyone affected. Tragic.

But it has to be said - because those fuckwads on the fascist right never let a tragedy go unexploited and we on the pro-democracy side have to start slinging mud back - THIS IS TRUMP'S FAULT. The storm that did this to the people of Texas hit in the middle of the night and NOAA is understaffed if not entirely unstaffed in some regions of the country.

Don't forget. These deaths are Trump's and the Republicans' fault.

#uspol #NOAA #TexasFlood

@jawarajabbi @w7voa yes. But also there were warnings and the people running those summer camps should have been more alert for a flash flood warning right on the river.

CaliCarol 1d ago

For sure.

Anomalous Human 1d ago

@w7voa The chief elected official in the county says both: "this is the most dangerous river valley in the United States” and “we do not have a warning system.". That seems wildly incongruous. If the most dangerous river valley in the US (presumably in terms of flooding) doesn't have a warning system, then someone isn't doing their job. #Texas #Flooding

Axomamma 1d ago

@JustToOdd Please update your "chief elected official" to reflect that he's a Republican. The overwhelming majority in Kerr County voted for this. I don't feel a tiny bit sorry for anyone who voted for a Republican legislature, House, Senate and president. The kids? I'm sorry that they had parents who were so reckless with their lives.

Anomalous Human 1d ago

@Axomamma I am not aware of the political affiliation (if any) of Judge Rob Kelly.

Axomamma 1d ago

@JustToOdd Easy enough to find out. He's a Republican.

https://ballotpedia.org/Rob_Kelly

Rob Kelly

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

Ballotpedia

Anomalous Human 1d ago

Having received pushback about not getting political w/r/t the flooding, as someone who lives in an overwhelmingly red state with officials in charge for whom I did not vote, I am not going to trash people who are suffering, who have lost everything, perhaps even their children, because of the political affiliation of their elected officials. I'll leave that sort of behavior to my country's president. #Texas #Flooding

John McVey 1d ago

@w7voa
it's a sad but also very well-written story, btw, and no paywall (by principle).
says this new Texas Tribune supporter.

@w7voa spmebody please contact senator Ted ( the tread) cruz and let him know von shitzhimself says fema wont be there as it isnt essential for the next 2 1/2 years.

Darwin Woodka 1d ago

Maybe the GOP should give a shit about climate change huh

@w7voa A family of 4 had the wreckage of a neighbor's house flood into theirs and carried about 1/2 of it away. The Parents and older daughter were able to save themselves, the Baby is missing.

Muro deGrizeco 23h ago

That is terrible news. A tragedy.

vbeyette🇨🇦23h ago

@w7voa Thoughts and Prayers Motherf#*kers!

@w7voa
If only some national weather agency could have warned them...

@w7voa
How did they let 20 summer camp girls go missing. You'd think they'd have gotten an evacuation warning.

DB Schwein 21h ago

If you read the article the evacuation warning was only released at 1am. Likely they were all asleep.

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline 22h ago

I am heartbroken.

ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ ʀᴀᴛ ɢᴀᴍᴇʀ 21h ago

did they try praying?

Passwordsarehard4 11h ago

@w7voa thoughts and prayer… wait, god did this. Well, he works in mysterious ways I guess.