Around 70 people died in the floods and we can expect that number to continue rising as some of those reported missing will eventually be confirmed to be dead.
President Donald Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, over the weekend, pledging immediate federal assistance to support rescue and recovery operations after devastating Fourth of July flooding.
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In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump confirmed he signed the disaster declaration "to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need."
Floodwaters surged through Kerr County on Independence Day, claiming nearly 70 lives and leaving over 20 girls still missing, according to updated reports.
More than 850 individuals have been rescued thanks to joint operations by the U.S. Coast Guard and state emergency personnel, Trump said, noting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the area alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
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President Donald Trump moved swiftly over the weekend to authorize federal support for flood recovery efforts in central Texas, where the aftermath of deadly flash flooding continues to unfold. On Sunday, Trump announced via Truth Social that he had signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, one of the hardest-hit regions in the state.
"I just signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, Texas, to ensure that our Brave First Responders immediately have the resources they need," Trump wrote. "These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing."
The disaster struck during Independence Day celebrations, with sudden and violent flooding sweeping through areas around Kerrville -- including children's camps -- leaving widespread devastation in its path.
The Democrat Media knew from the first moments the cause for this tragedy: Global Warming and the Bad Orange Man who is a Fascist.
It's so strange that no Democrat president, not one, has ever been blamed for the weather-related catastrophes that occur during his term, while not a single Republican president has ever escaped blame.
That seems statistically unlikely, if we assume a non-partisan media, so we should definitely not assume that.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Climate change caused the Texas floods that killed at least 27 people, say the media. No, it didn't. The lack of a flood warning system did. We've managed floods for millennia, and deaths from them declined 80% in the last 100 years. Climate reporters are trapped in a weird cult
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Jul 5
Climate change caused the catastrophic floods that tore through Central Texas over the last few days, killing at least 27 people, including nine children, and turning calm rivers into violent torrents, according to the media.
At Camp Mystic in Kerr County, the Guadalupe River surged from about three feet to nearly 29 feet in just 90 minutes, sweeping away cabins, vehicles, and people with little or no warning. Climate change caused a warmer atmosphere, which holds more moisture, and unleashed it in increasingly intense bursts.
Volumes of precipitation were extreme. They had less than a 0.1% chance of occurring in any given year, according to the New York Times. Texas climatologists warned that the frequency and severity of such events have already increased and could intensify by another 10 percent by 2036. In East Texas, "the number of days per year with at least two inches of rain or snow has increased by 20 percent since 1900," noted the Times.
But that tiny increase in precipitation doesn't explain the floods or the deaths in Texas. Over the past century, global flood deaths declined by more than 80 percent. That happened not because nations reduced rainfall but because they have learned how to live with it. They built levees, dams, and drainage systems. They developed early warning systems and evacuated people before the water arrived. Kerr County in Texas failed to do any of these things.
Despite its location in one of the most flood-prone regions in the United States, the county had no formal flood warning system in place. There were no sirens, no automated text alerts, no rapid evacuation protocol. The river rose, and families had no idea it was coming...
A Coast Guard rookie rescued 165 children trapped at Camp Mystic, a summer camp particularly hit by the floods:
This DEI hire falsely claims that Camp Mystic is "whites only" and essentially says that we shouldn't care about white children dying in floods, You Racists.