[IvorySmith]

Wow, only 40 years after the last 1,000 year flood Guadalupe had.

[houseoftechno]

Reportedly twenty feet in 37 minutes.

[houseoftechno]

This girl/woman was able to grab and scale a tree barefoot after being washed for 20 miles from her campsite.

[William May]

Originally Posted by gingsu ↗

The "alleged" issue is that NOAA said "3-5 inches" of rain and ended up much higher. So, budget cuts also "cut the # of inches"? :)

If they have no one doing actual monitoring, because they laid everyone off, then all they can provide is "ESTIMATES"! There is no one watching the satellites or the weather monitoring instruments.

Trump gutted the National Weather Service and the NOAA, so this is what you get!

Trump LIES, and little girls DIE!

[William May]

I saw someone say "Well, who is stupid enough to think the U.S. government is going to give them warnings?"

ME! I'M stupid enough to think the governments job is to help take care of ME!! That's why THEY EXIST!!!

Too bad they got rid of the Aviation Safety Review Board too! Good luck FLYING this summer!!

And the Consumer Financial Protection Agency! You can just fight with the banks on your own!!

[kellyhound]

A Texas man bled to death after he nearly cut his arm off trying to save his family, including two children, from the devastating flash floods that swallowed their home.

Julian Ryan punched through a window of their trailer home in Ingram, which was filling quickly with water, so that his family could escape, but the impact cut his arm nearly off that he bled to death.

Ryan was huddled in the bedroom of their home with his fiancée Christinia Wilson, and the couple’s 6-year-old and 13-month-old children when the Guadalupe River began to breach its banks.

The couple and Ryan's mother were at the home when the surging water woke them up at 4 am on Friday. They lived at their house near the river.

Christinia Wilson and her fiancé Julian Ryan were at home in Ingram when floodwaters from the Guadalupe River began rising early Friday morning.

Christinia Wilson said that within 20 minutes, the water was up to their knees. "It just started pouring in, and we had to fight the door to get it closed to make sure not too much got in," Wilson said.

However, the pressure of the water was too much that the door of the bedroom burst open flooding the room. That's when Ryan decided to break open the window. He punched a hole in a bedroom window, severing an artery in his arm. The impact almost cut his limb "clean off", the family members said.

Though Wilson repeatedly called 911, the rescuers could not get to their home to save Ryan in time. "By 6 (a.m.), he looked at me and the kids and my mother-in-law and said, 'I’m sorry, I’m not going to make it. I love y’all," Wilson said.

Their trailer broke off in half in the impact and the family led to safety without Ryan. "He died a hero, and that will never go unnoticed," Ryan's sister, Connie Salas, said.

It took rescuers several hours to retrieve Ryan's body.

The family believe flood sirens could have saved lives. "Everybody would've been worried -- what's that noise?" Wilson said. "We would have left. We would have gone anywhere else. We had so many places that were safe," she added.

At least 82 dead now.
At least 68 deaths in Kerr County, including 40 adults and 28 children, with 10 girls and one counselor still missing from Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River.

Also 6 deaths in Travis County.
3 deaths in Burnet County.
2 deaths in Kendall County.
2 deaths in Williamson County.
1 death in Tom Green County.

Additionally, at least 41 people remain missing statewide, with search and rescue efforts ongoing amid concerns of further rainfall.

[U.B.Hotch]

I live in Kerrville and the extent of flooding is inconceivable. Even if the warnings had been as expected, there was so little time to respond accordingly. Also, the flooding began at 4:30am and given there was zero visibility at that time, nobody could have predicted the severity and speed in which it approached. Highly unpredictable altogether. My boss's daughter was at Camp Mystic and was spared because her age group housing was located on higher ground.

[zhazoo]

Whelp, looks like some cult members got to meet their "maker."

The "saddest" thing is that the parents indoctrinated their kids with some bullshit god stuff and now they're dead.

[jenna_live]

Christian campYou would think that god would help me not a little bit more no

[houseoftechno]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

I saw someone say "Well, who is stupid enough to think the U.S. government is going to give them warnings?"

ME! I'M stupid enough to think the governments job is to help take care of ME!! That's why THEY EXIST!!!

Too bad they got rid of the Aviation Safety Review Board too! Good luck FLYING this summer!!

And the Consumer Financial Protection Agency! You can just fight with the banks on your own!!

You want Gov to run your life? Russia's on the other side of the globe, and deep state is broke.

I have seen the deep state cancer first hand, repeatedly. In the past 2 decades, even longstanding science- and engineering-based agencies like NOAA and USACE have been destroyed at their foundations. None of the current storm disaster modeling discloses probability or risk factors. Why? I looked at the model source code, and the reason is the return period of their models is too long to have statistical relevance. Like 1000s of years. Why? Because all of the Gov agencies are mandated to include climate-driven risks, which have very low probabilities. Utter bullshit - top to bottom. So they just eliminate the concept of probability from the grossly inflated model results. It is impossible to assess risk without probability, but ALL of the models have eliminated probability.

I used to work with these people. Following my code review, I talked to agency employees in a relaxed setting. "WTF is going on?" The response: "Yeah, we hear you but that's not something we can talk about." (Meaning, they want to keep their jobs.) Yes, talking disaster risk concepts is now a national secret among NOAA and USACE staff. This same gutting of scientific method has occurred in all fields, at all Gov levels, but especially Fed, State and County, and it is all driven by the FED MONEY TIT.

So your solution is to scream to give more of my tax $$$ to these soulless motherfuckers? Our country would be vastly improved if we kill off every Fed Agency, because they are all beyond recovery.

Finally, why are you blaming elected officials for 1000-year storms in the first place! Do you realize how inane that sounds? The world has no guarantees. Sometimes bad shit just happens. Take care of your SELF, lick your wounds, bury your dead, and don't repeat your mistakes - that's the American way. Dumb asses can go live in the Socialist Republic of Canada. They're still taking the American losers, as far as I know.