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  • Severe flooding in Kerr County

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 4 20:02:24 2025
    Kerrville, Texas

    Severe flooding in Kerr County after heavy Fourth of July storms

    Between 10 to 12 inches of rain fell in the Kerr County area on Friday

    The Fourth of July started with heavy storms hitting Kerr County
    overnight, causing the Guadalupe River to rise significantly.

    As of Friday afternoon, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said during a
    news conference that the severe flooding killed at least 13 people. An
    unknown number of people remain unaccounted for, the sheriff said.

    https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/07/05/photos-severe-flooding-in-kerr-county-after-heavy-fourth-of-july-storms/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Jul 4 21:16:37 2025
    On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:02:24 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    31 sec video
    https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3lt64fn4swc2y

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jul 6 10:21:54 2025
    On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:16:37 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to
    have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in
    place to help prevent these tragedies."

    https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ltce2x6vsu2g

    Texas Officials Slam Trump's National Weather Service for Botched
    Forecast

    Officials in Texas are casting blame on the National Weather Service
    (NWS) for failing to forecast catastrophic flooding that has killed at
    least 27 people.

    NWS was among the government agencies targeted by the Department of
    Government Efficiency in its effort to gut the federal bureaucracy,
    losing approximately 600 staffers.

    After the cuts, the agency--which was already understaffed--began to
    prepare to offer "degraded" forecasting services, facing "severe
    shortages" of meteorologists, according to an internal document
    obtained by The New York Times in April.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-officials-slam-donald-trumps-national-weather-service-for-bad-forecast/

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jul 6 10:16:28 2025
    On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:16:37 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    At least 51 people have been confirmed dead by the floods that swept
    through a region of Central Texas as a frantic search-and-rescue
    operation continues for those missing, including 27 girls from a
    beloved summer camp.

    https://bsky.app/profile/washingtonpost.com/post/3ltcetgcqcc2l

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jul 6 16:14:15 2025
    On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:21:54 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    Forbes
    Texas Flood Live Updates: 68 Dead Including 21 Children
    ...
    Noem said the Trump administration was trying to "upgrade" the
    technology the NWS uses to send alerts and notify the public about
    catastrophic weather events.
    =======================

    Noem said

    Bullshit...upgrade the system before eliminating employees...

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jul 6 17:45:39 2025
    On 7/6/2025 11:16 AM, JAB wrote:
    On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 21:16:37 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    At least 51 people have been confirmed dead by the floods that swept
    through a region of Central Texas as a frantic search-and-rescue
    operation continues for those missing, including 27 girls from a
    beloved summer camp.

    https://bsky.app/profile/washingtonpost.com/post/3ltcetgcqcc2l


    I saw a video where they found one girl, I think she was 12, clinging to
    a tree. Very sad.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 6 17:22:36 2025
    On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 17:45:39 -0400, Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net>
    wrote:

    video

    Terrain played a role there...around here with say 10" rain, not the
    same result.

    I visited this area, just after the flood thru Big Thompson
    Canyon...another bad incident.

    1976 Big Thompson River flood - thunderstorm complex that produced
    rainfall totals of 12-14 inches (300-360 mm) near Estes Park,
    Colorado,
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Big_Thompson_River_flood

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jul 7 15:26:30 2025
    On Sun, 06 Jul 2025 16:14:15 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    Texas floods death toll rises to 91, officials say, as storm warnings
    continue
    ...
    ...
    Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp in the county, confirmed that at
    least 27 girls and staff were among the dead

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c04dv7x1qxzt

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jul 7 17:37:13 2025
    On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:26:30 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Severe flooding

    A classic non-sense statement:

    "Blaming President Trump for these floods is a depraved lie, and it
    serves no purpose during this time of national mourning," she said.

    Trump can not control the weather....blaming Trump for cutting weather
    service employees is legit...if NWS failed, due to DOGE.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jul 7 19:57:03 2025
    On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:26:30 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp in the county, confirmed that at
    least 27 girls and staff were among the dead

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c04dv7x1qxzt

    More than 100 killed in Texas floods, with 11 still missing from Camp
    Mystic

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c04dv7x1qxzt

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Jul 8 12:48:42 2025
    On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:57:03 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    More than 100 killed in Texas floods, with 11 still missing from Camp
    Mystic

    CNN
    After disasters like the Texas flood, Trump reflexively blames Biden

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 8 16:34:52 2025
    Ted Cruz says he returned to Texas from Greece as quickly as he could
    after news of devastating floods broke. Flight data tells a different
    story.

    https://bsky.app/profile/thedailybeast.bsky.social/post/3ltgddrxueb2k

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 9 13:01:36 2025
    Death Toll Reaches at Least 119 in Texas Floods, With 173 Missing

    Officials defended their actions in the hardest-hit county, where no
    survivors have been found since Friday and questions are mounting over
    disaster preparation and flood warnings.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/texas-floods-missing-search.html

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 9 18:41:13 2025
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott uses a football analogy to explain why he isn't
    placing blame for flood response: "Every football team makes mistakes
    ... The way winners talk is not to point fingers."

    https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3ltif7npmxs27

    Accountability has nothing to do with football here...we need to know
    if mistakes were made, inept planning was involved, or DOGE/Trump's
    cut to NWS was a factor.

    Here's the topic at hand,

    "Emergency preparedness involves making plans and gathering resources
    to minimize the impact of emergencies or disasters"

    Who screwed the pooch?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Thu Jul 10 06:31:00 2025
    On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:41:13 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott uses a football analogy to explain why he isn't >placing blame for flood response: "Every football team makes mistakes
    ... The way winners talk is not to point fingers."

    https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3ltif7npmxs27


    Should We Politicize the Texas Flood? Absolutely

    When it comes to disasters, accountability delayed is accountability
    denied
    ...
    In fact, now is exactly the time to put officials on the spot and ask
    how much responsibility they bear for the horror. Because the reality
    of America today is that if we don't make an issue of how this
    happened within the next few days, nothing will be learned and nothing
    will change.

    https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/should-we-politicize-the-texas-flood

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jul 21 20:54:57 2025
    On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:41:13 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott uses a football analogy to explain why he isn't >placing blame for flood response: "Every football team makes mistakes
    ... The way winners talk is not to point fingers."

    https://bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3ltif7npmxs27

    My, my, Greg knew what the issue was....Texas legislators

    Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three
    bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr
    County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding.

    https://bsky.app/profile/propublica.org/post/3luilb2f5f22h

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