Comments on: Deadly Texas floods

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:53:25 +0000

Not to make light of a terrible tragedy, but here is Stevie Ray’s “Texas Flood.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQuY7dHfWrM&list=RDOQuY7dHfWrM&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5H9P4F5Uk&list=RDKC5H9P4F5Uk&start_radio=1

It is a sad song about flooding & some of its difficulties, but it’s also about ending a relationship. Nothing as bad as death.

The only thing I knew about Texas weather was that it gets very hot and muggy. There’s flooding in Texas??

In the late 70’s I was in San Diego at the end of their 7 year drought, and got caught in an extreme downpour on the freeway that cumulatively (there was more than one of these) caused thousands of car accidents. Not me fortunately.

Then in the 2012 time frame, an in-law was a student at San Diego State, and had his car washed off the street and into an adjacent gully, totaling the car.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:01:19 +0000

The mother of our little lost friend has posted on social media, first, a prayer, and second, a comment that the political blaming is not at all helpful to grieving families. (And this mother is, I am told, very left-wing in her views.)

The ghouls need to stop it. Making political points over the bodies of the dead is monstrous. So far, I have seen nothing to indicate this could have been avoided. By the time the extreme flood warnings went out, it was too late for many people, and it is virtually impossible to predict this kind of apocalyptic rainfall on a specific location.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:06:13 +0000

I am watching the communist party wind up the media in an effort to blame Trump for the human loss in this flood. I can hear their wheels grinding and grinding. I have something to offer to this effort. I sit on our local river committee. Sometime between 2023 and 2024 we were advised that the meteorlogical stations on the river were no longer function (old age) and were being pulled out. The plan was to replace with newer larger stations that combined the functions of several smaller units. Sooo . . when the NYT tells you that the loss of life in TX is Trump’s fault, please understand that the reduction in meterological units monitoring our river began at least two years ago. I am assuming that this was also happening in other states.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:24:10 +0000

om-
Thanks for the link to Come Ye Disconsolate, sung at that great Texas university, Baylor.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:11:03 +0000

Confirmed dead now total 78.
A truly terrible way to die, from a sound slumber into a cement mixer full of trees, cars, trash and filty water.

By: om

om — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:01:43 +0000

Kate:

Words fail me as usual.

The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? – David Bently Hart

https://www.amazon.com/Doors-Sea-Where-Was-Tsunami/dp/0802866867

Come Ye Disconsolate – Baylor A Cappella Choir (Men)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNqzhfB4y1I

By: Cicero

Cicero — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:42:11 +0000

I believe the death toll is now 59…and rising.

By: Insufficiently Sensitive

Insufficiently Sensitive — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:08:08 +0000

Do take a look at Roger Pielke’s blog today. Among other things, he points to a record flood in 1987 which exceeded the rise of this one, and notes the gaping lack of any effective warning system.

By: charles

charles — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:21:31 +0000

Here's a video showing how fast the Guadaloupe River rose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBXML29dTY Pay attention to the times the reporter mentions - it was so fast!

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:28:16 +0000

But, it seems, they have to blame their diseased souls on someone…

Unfortunately.

RIP victims and heroes alike…