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[Owendonovan]

I can't help but remember what all these Texas Christians used to say about Jesus wanting gay people to die of AIDS because of their sin of homosexuality. That's what their Jesus does, kills people for sin. I wonder what the sin was these Texas Christian parents and children committed?

[ponchi101]

No. They said Jesus (God) INVENTED AIDS so that gay people would die for their sins.
And God SENT Katrina to N.O. so that the sinners of that city would die for their sins.
So, as you say. They do think their Jesus is a serial killer. Actually, a genocidal killer.

It is so hard to read what they say because you don't even know where to start dismantling the lunacy.

[Suliso]

I think you're a bit off here. Jesus doesn't kill in a sense me or you could, instead he calls these souls to himself or sends them prematurely to hell. That's an important distinction.

[ti-amie]

Live Updates: More Flooding Looms as Searchers Scramble to Find Missing
An alert sent Sunday afternoon warned people along the Guadalupe River to move to higher ground. The death toll rose to 80, and dozens remained unaccounted for, including 10 girls from a summer camp on the river.

July 6, 2025, 7:27 p.m. ET4 minutes ago
Tyler PagerWhite House reporter

...Trump, who has called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be eliminated, deflected questions about the future of the agency on Sunday, just hours after he signed an emergency declaration directing federal resources to Texas. “FEMA is something we can talk about later, but right now they’re busy working so we’ll leave it at that,” he told reporters in New Jersey before flying back to Washington.

July 6, 2025, 7:25 p.m. ET6 minutes ago
Nicholas Bogel-BurroughsReporting from Kerr County, Texas

Near Kerrville, water that had receded earlier on Sunday has once again overtaken a stretch of road, keeping some residents from returning home. April Andrews, 48, said she had driven along Goat Creek Road without a hitch earlier in the day, but water was rushing over the street by Sunday evening.

1 hour ago
Amy Graff is a reporter on The Times’s weather team.

The threat of flash flooding continues in Hill Country.

The chance for heavy rain and flooding in Texas Hill Country was not over on Sunday afternoon, as the National Weather Service issued more flash flood warnings and urged people along portions of the Guadalupe River to seek higher ground.

The air overhead remained packed with moisture, and any thunderstorms that form could be accompanied by heavy rains, including in Kerr County and the Guadalupe River Basin, which has been devastated by deadly flash flooding.

The Weather Service office for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas warned that thunderstorms could increase through the afternoon.

“It’s just sort of beginning, so we’ll see what happens in the next couple of hours,” Bob Fogarty, a meteorologist with the Weather Service, said around 3 p.m.

At 4:15 p.m. local time, rain was falling over Kerr County. More than two inches of rain was possible on Sunday in the basin.

An inch or two of rain in three hours could cause the Guadalupe to flood again. “It’s just a question of where the rain falls,” Mr. Fogarty said.

Just before 4 p.m., the Weather Service issued several flash-flood warnings for portions of Hill Country, including for Hunt and Ingram.

“Move immediately to higher ground,” the agency said.

A large portion of Hill Country, including Kerr County, also remained under a flood watch through 7 p.m. on Sunday. The Weather Service said additional rainfall could range from two to four inches, with pockets of up to 10 inches.

A watch is a heads-up that conditions are favorable for flooding, while a warning is an order to take immediate action because flooding is expected to occur or is already happening.

Thunderstorms are notoriously difficult to forecast accurately. Meteorologists can identify a large area where storms are likely, but pinpointing the time and location of a storm is a challenge.

Mr. Fogarty compared predicting a thunderstorm to placing a pot of water on the stove and waiting for it to boil. “Now, try to pick out where the first bubble is going to form,” he said. “That’s what forecasting this is like.”

The thunderstorms in Central Texas are forming in an atmosphere with unusually high moisture that has flowed in from the Gulf. Mr. Fogarty said that there was little wind and that the storms were moving slowly and dumping rain over localized areas for long periods of time.

“We rely on weather models, and the models have not done a really good job with this whole event,” he said. “The atmosphere is unusually moist.”

Troy Kimmel, a meteorologist and retired University of Texas at Austin professor, said that short-range models, which use supercomputers to forecast weather, were “worthless” in the weather event that began July 4. “There’s something unique about this system that made it difficult to forecast,” he added.

The chance for heavy rain and flash flooding was expected to continue across portions of Hill Country on Monday, with drier weather likely on Tuesday, said David Roth, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center.

A large body of research indicates that the heavy rain that is causing the deadly flooding in Texas is becoming more frequent and extreme because of climate change. Warm air holds more moisture than cool air, and as temperatures rise, storms can produce bigger downpours. When they meet with outdated infrastructure or inadequate warning systems on the ground, the results can be catastrophic.

Raymond Zhong contributed reporting.

[Owendonovan]

I check the weather before I go to bed and when I wake up every day. I'm not sure this a common thing, but as a teacher I find the weather report critical to my day with students as I spend time outdoors with them. If there's lightning seen or thunder heard we go under a bridge near the playing field whether there's rain or not. I don't negotiate that. I'm curious what the protocol for those in charge of the Camp Mystic is for being 100ft from a river? I can't escape the sense of of preventability, regardless of what time it occurs.

[ti-amie]

It's worse than you thought Owen.

[ti-amie]

Quick action by one Texas summer camp leads to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood

By ADRIAN SAINZ
Updated 6:50 PM EDT, July 6, 2025

It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the Guadalupe River steadily rising amid a deluge of rain.

Aroldo Barrera notified his boss, who had been monitoring reports of the storms approaching Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly, a recreation destination where an intercultural youth conference had been called off early just hours earlier.

Despite an absence of warning by local authorities, camp officials acted quickly on their own, relocating about 70 children and adults staying overnight in a building near the river. With the kids safe, camp leaders including President and CEO Tim Huchton were able to avoid the catastrophe that hit at least one other camp near Hunt, where the 500-acre Mo-Ranch is located.

“They helped them pack up,” Lisa Winters, communications director for Mo-Ranch, told The Associated Press on Sunday. “They got them up, they got them out, put them up on higher ground.”

Other places fared much worse.

Flash floods that roared through Texas Hill Country before dawn on Friday decimated the landscape near the river, leaving at least 79 dead and many others unaccounted for. As of Sunday, 10 girls from nearby Camp Mystic remained missing, officials said. Rescue and recovery teams combed the area for them and others still unaccounted for days after the flood.

The decision to leave added to the mounting accounts of how camps and residents in the area say they were left to make their own decisions in the absence of warnings or notifications from the county.


Local authorities have faced heavy scrutiny and at times have deflected questions about how much warning they had or were able to provide the public, saying the reviews will come later. For now, they say they’re focusing on rescues. Officials have said they did not expect such an intense downpour, the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.

Mo-Ranch suffered no loss of life, said Winters, adding that the camp received no direct information from county officials about flooding that could — and did — take lives.

“We had no warning this was coming,” Winters said, adding that it would have been “devastating” had camp officials not been looking at weather reports and the rising river waters.

Mo-Ranch “saw it coming well in advance and they did something about it,” she said.

By about 7 a.m. Friday, camp staff began contacting children’s parents, telling them their kids were safe.

“They knew that those parents would wake up and just see all this media footage of kids lost, or the river,” Winters said. “They’re like, ‘tell your parents you’re OK’ … We made sure every single guest, every single kid, was accounted for.”

The camp, which sits on higher ground than some in the area, suffered some damage, but not as significant as others, Winters said.

“The buildings don’t matter,” she said. “I can’t imagine losing children, or people.”

She said a sturdy aluminum kayak was wrapped around a tree “like a pretzel.”

“That just shows you the sheer power of the water. I don’t know how any people could survive. We’re blessed,” she said.

The camp remained closed Sunday and Mo-Ranch was working on ways to help other camps affected by the flood.

“We’re in a difficult place because others are really suffering,” said Winters, who became emotional during an interview. “We’re a sisterhood of camps. We take care of each other.”

https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods ... 9b8f7dfccf

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The emerging picture is that NWS provided timely warnings to local officials, who delayed sending them to the public for hours.
July 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM

[Owendonovan]

It was the Democrats........

[ti-amie]

It was the Democrats........

MTG says weather manipulation took place.

I'm so tired. This fresh hell a day is exhausting.