Sunday, July 06, 2025

Texas flooding is on Chump

When I started reading a few minutes ago, the death toll was almost 80 but now REUTERS notes it's 82.  What are we talking about?  The flood in Texas.

       

Gabrielle Emanuel (NPR) explains:

In the early hours of Friday, floods swept across Texas Hill Country. The Guadalupe River rose 26 feet within 45 minutes, according to state officials.

At least 67 people died in the floods, with 59 of the confirmed deaths occuring in Kerr County. Frantic search efforts continue for 11 girls from a local Christian summer camp — Camp Mystic — who remain missing, as well as other missing individuals. Officials added that more than 850 people have been rescued, including over 100 airlifted from the region.

On Friday, when asked why the summer camps in the area were not evacuated, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, the county's top elected official, said, "I can't answer that. I don't know."


Use the link for the NPR timeline. Dallas' WFAA also offers a timeline.  NPR also has posted Robert Ivey's timelapse video of the flooding.


 Camp Mystic is a girls camp in the flooded area.  Jillian Frankel (PEOPLE magazine) has a photo essay of the remains of the camp.  Jim Vertuno, John Seewer and Julio Cortez (AP) report some of the families of the girls were allowed into the remains of the camp today, "A woman and a teenage girl, both wearing rubber waders, briefly went inside one of the cabins, which stood next to a pile of soaked mattresses, a storage trunk and clothes. At one point, the pair doubled over, sobbing before they embraced."


Looking for accountability?  From the Chump administration?  The flood was Friday.  Chump spent the weekend golfing.  He never visited Texas.  Any other president would have been on a plane immediately.  Our useless and criminal Secretary of Homeland Security took herself and her Medusa extensions down to Texas on Saturday.  Catherine Bouris (THE DAILY BEAST) reports:


While speaking at a press conference alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday, Noem was asked by a reporter about whether the fact that he and many others did not receive warnings from the National Weather Service until 7 a.m. was a “fundamental failure of the federal government’s responsibility to keep people safe.” Noem argued that the technology was “ancient” and that the Trump administration is working to upgrade it.

“When President Trump took office… he said he wanted to fix [that], and is currently upgrading the technology. And the National Weather Service has indicated that with that and NOAA, that we needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government for many, many years, and that is the reforms that are ongoing,” Noem explained, seemingly shifting the blame onto previous administrations who failed to upgrade the technology. Trump was previously president from 2017 to 2021.

When asked about the impact of cuts and closures made to weather research labs as part of Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” Noem once again defended the current administration, telling reporters that she would relay their concerns to the president.

“I do carry your concerns back to the federal government, and to President Trump, and we will do all we can to fix those kind of things that that may have felt like a failure to you and to your community members,” Noem said. “We know that everybody wants more warning time, and that’s why we’re working to upgrade the technologies that been neglected [for] far too long.”


Those words are laughable.  This is the time of the year for bad weather.  If Chump wanted the systems upgraded, that should have taken place in January when he was sworn in.  More to the point, he was president from January 2017 to January 2021.  So he should have known the state of the systems before he was sworn back in at the start of this year.  


Julia Ornedo (DAILY BEAST)  covers Chump's refusal of accountaiblity:


President Donald Trump was hearing reporters just fine until one of them asked him about federal cuts in the aftermath of the devastating floods in Texas.

Trump spoke to reporters in New Jersey on Sunday after flash floods wreaked havoc in central Texas over the weekend, killing at least 80 people and sending over 40 others missing. Critics were quick to blame the calamitous toll on the administration’s overhaul of the federal government, which included staff cuts at the National Weather Service.

“Democrats are blaming your federal cuts for the deaths over in Texas,” one reporter, who could be heard audibly projecting their voice, asked Trump.

Though the president leaned in to hear better, he decided to wave off the question.

“I can’t hear you,” he said, as he moved on to another reporter.

Asked later on if he had plans to look into whether the cuts at the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency left key positions vacant, Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick shook their heads.


Yelena Mandenberg (IRISH STAR) adds, "The clip of Trump turning his back when questioned about the disaster quickly went viral, leaving some on X pointing out: 'His ears don’t hear truth.' Others accused him of 'shifting the blame' to Democrats with the act."  Meanwhile, Rey Harris (TAG24 NEWS) notes that artificial intelligence GROK has outraged MAGA with a judgment call


They included a screenshot of the AI telling a user that the Trump administration made massive cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS), which contributed to "inadequate alerts for the flash floods."
When asked why Catturd was so "triggered" by the AI's response, Grok answered, "Trump's NOAA cuts impaired flood warnings, contributing to deaths," adding, "Facts aren't woke; they're just facts."




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