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Heartbreaking Texas flooding death toll emerges

Texas officials are warning of a high death toll

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The UK DAILY MAIL is exclusively reporting Sunday night: Texas death toll from flooding will top 100..

Texas‘s Division of Emergency Management predicted the number of dead as a result of catastrophic flooding in Kerrville on July 4 would top 100, Daily Mail can exclusively reveal. 

In an email sent out Saturday, the state disaster office told partners the number of dead would surpass 100, two different sources confirmed to Daily Mail.

The estimate of the dead is vastly different than the message state officials are projecting publicly, insisting that they are still searching for people who are alive, and refusing to say rescue efforts have shifted to recovery of remains. 

There are images now being circulated by family of deceased.. the heartbreak is especially poignant as young children from Camp Mystic remain missing..

Heavy rains and flooding remained a threat Sunday as the rescue efforts turned into a bitter recovery campaign of bodies in wreckage that was taken down river as the wall of water destroyed land..

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warns that flash flooding could still pose a danger for some regions over the next few days as “more heavy rainfall” is expected.

Heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding in the Big Country, Concho Valley, Central Texas and again in the City of Kerrville, where a majority of the destruction has been reported, Abbott said during a news conference today..

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Debate is raging as to whether federal forecasters did not do enough to warn..

Local officials have shifted the blame to the NWS, claiming the agency cost people lives. 

Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd said the amount of rain that slammed the Hill Country and Concho Valley was drastically underestimated. 

Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas, said that communities were under prepared for the sheer amount of rainfall. 

President 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…

DEVELOPING..

The Guadalupe River Disaster: A Rising Wall of Water and a Nation in Shock

Are we now in the global super storm that was predicted decades ago?

In the last 24 hours, something truly heartbreaking unfolded in Texas. The Guadalupe River rose with terrifying speed and force, sending a 20-foot wall of water surging through communities. Homes, vehicles, memories—all swept away. But worst of all, lives were lost, including those of innocent children, and many remain missing. Across the nation, hearts are heavy. The emotional weight of this tragedy has cast a somber shadow over the American spirit this summer.

The situation is not just devastating it is also deeply unsettling. How did it happen so fast? How did something so deadly catch so many off guard?

Some officials in Texas are pointing fingers at the National Weather Service, claiming that forecasts failed to reflect the severity of the storm.

While flash flooding and heavy rain were predicted, no one expected rainfall amounts reaching up to 12 inches per hour, nor the river rising as dramatically as it did.

We’ve all experienced moments when weather forecasts predict a monstrous storm or blizzard that never materializes. People laugh it off and say the forecasters were “crying wolf.”

Over the last decade, NWS alerts have become increasingly intense—especially during hurricane season—with messaging that reads like a Stephen King horror novel: evacuate now or risk certain death.

But this time in Texas, the opposite happened. There were no apocalyptic warnings. No sirens of doom. Just a sudden, overwhelming catastrophe.

Should forecasters be held more accountable? Is there a future where weather services face civil or even criminal liability when disasters strike without sufficient warning? They are some interesting questions..

To be fair, weather forecasting is not an exact science.

Despite our reliance on computer models and sophisticated algorithms, there’s still human judgment involved by choosing between models, patterns, and trying to predict the correct algorithm that guesses tomorrow’s temps.

Still, when you look at the radar imagery of how this storm formed, it feels almost unnatural. Some say it fuels belief in weather modification and geo-engineering conspiracies—and while that’s a rabbit hole of its own, it’s easy to understand why people are searching for explanations when faced with such chaos.

It was the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry.. it clearly was more juiced up and packed more of a tremendous punch than forecasters foresaw..

Flooding in Texas was linked to the convergence of two tropical moisture plumes, one from the eastern Pacific & another from the Gulf. This produced near-record high atmospheric moisture. Global precipitable water levels have been running 3rd-highest on record in recent months.

And even today, it continues with more dire warnings being issued now..

Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said Saturday the death toll includes 18 adults and nine children so far. Rescue crews have saved 850 uninjured people and another eight with injuries in addition to finding 27 bodies… THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS ARE GOING TO BE HEARTBREAKING..

New flooding was reported along the San Gabriel River, the Brazos River, and Burnet County, all on the north and west sides of Austin… DEVELOPING..

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Back in the late 1990s, Art Bell and Whitley Strieber warned of the “quickening” and the coming global superstorm. Their book inspired the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow.

It’s now 2025, and while Al Gore’s forecasts of imminent planetary collapse didn’t unfold exactly as predicted, there’s no denying something is off about the weather.

Something feels different.

And maybe it has been for a long time.

What makes it more troubling is that we probably can’t do a thing about it even if we tried..

It is painfully clear is that people in Texas are suffering deeply right now.

Let’s offer them more than just thoughts, let’s give them our compassion, our support, and our prayers.

🙏 Pray for the families who lost loved ones.
🙏 Pray for those still searching for missing children.
🙏 Pray for the wounded—physically and emotionally.
🙏 And may God have mercy on them all.

And watch for real and true ways to donate and help.