February 18, 2026

FEMA

Hundreds were reported missing after Texas floods. Most of them were found safe– abcnews.go.com

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DALLAS — Texas officials labored to account for more than 160 people originally reported missing along the Guadalupe River after the deadly July Fourth floods before ultimately concluding that most were safe and only three individuals still haven’t been found, the top executive in the hardest-hit county said Monday.

“Most of them were tourists that came into town and left and went back home and didn’t report that they were there,” Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said at a special meeting of the county commissioner court. He called the process a “Herculean effort.”

The flash floods killed at least 135 people in Texas, and most of the deaths were in Kerr County, where destructive, fast-moving water rose 26 feet (8 meters) on the Guadalupe River, washing away buildings and vehicles in the area about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of San Antonio.

The sharp revision in the number of missing by Kerr County officials on Saturday followed a familiar pattern in the often chaotic aftermath of large-scale disasters. Hundreds of people were reported missing in the initial days after the floods through a phone hotline and email address, which launched investigators on an “exhaustive effort” to verify the status of each of those individuals, Kerrville police spokesperson Jonathan Lamb said.

DHS Says Mainstream Media ‘Deliberately Lying’ in Coverage of Events Leading Up to Catastrophic TX Flood – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser July 14, 2025

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The death toll in the tragic Texas floods over the weekend keeps rising, yet leftist politicians and the mainstream media wasted no time in politicizing the heartbreak and trying to pin blame for the natural event on Donald Trump and his administration.

They blame everything from DOGE to cuts to the National Weather Service to budget reductions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but as RedState’s Bonchie points out, most of those cuts haven’t even taken effect yet, and their predictions wouldn’t have changed no matter how high their funding.

But this second Trump administration is a different beast, and they’re not taking things like this lying down. The Department of Homeland Security blasted the media in a series of Sunday posts and accused the biased press of outright lying:

Here is the timeline of NWS’s proactive response:

There are at least 12 subsequent posts by the department proving that they did in fact send out numerous warnings about the potential dangers ahead.

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The death toll in the tragic Texas floods over the weekend keeps rising, yet leftist politicians and the mainstream media wasted no time in politicizing the heartbreak and trying to pin blame for the natural event on Donald Trump and his administration.

They blame everything from DOGE to cuts to the National Weather Service to budget reductions at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but as RedState’s Bonchie points out, most of those cuts haven’t even taken effect yet, and their predictions wouldn’t have changed no matter how high their funding.

But this second Trump administration is a different beast, and they’re not taking things like this lying down. The Department of Homeland Security blasted the media in a series of Sunday posts and accused the biased press of outright lying:

Here is the timeline of NWS’s proactive response:

There are at least 12 subsequent posts by the department proving that they did in fact send out numerous warnings about the potential dangers ahead. Click on the above tweet to read the entire thread, but here are just a few examples:

 

DHS said the National Weather Service actually did its job:

“The National Weather Service executed timely, precise forecasting and warnings, despite unprecedented rainfall overwhelming the region,” it continued.

The agency also provided a timeline of the National Weather Service’s “proactive response” to the storm beginning on Thursday morning.

“The National Weather Service provided over 12 hours of advance notice via the Flood Watch and over 3 hours of lead time for Flash Flood Warnings, with escalated alerts as the storm intensified,” DHS wrote.

Related: Amazing Rescue of Woman in Tree, Stunning Video Shows Just How Fast TX Flood Waters Rose

Amid Tragedy and Heartbreak in Texas, Hero Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Saves Over 160 Lives

 

This is an awful story, and like Bonchie, I’m heartbroken as a parent to contemplate the unimaginable pain the families of the victims are feeling at this time. There will be investigations, and reports, and studies to determine how this could have been better prevented, but this moment is not the time to throw out conjecture, uncorroborated theories and unfounded allegations.

Blaming the Trump administration for cuts that supposedly kneecapped our warning systems is a fool’s game, because as the DHS points out, the warnings went out. There are still questions to be answered about what happened next, but in the meantime, the media should stop throwing out baseless speculation when the waters haven’t even receded yet.

Updated 7/6 11:35 p.m. ET: Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee had something to say about it:

 

Democrats Celebrate Death of White Children and MAGA People in Texas Flash Flood Disaster

pgnewser July 9, 2025

Hate Filled Democrats React in Glee Over Texas Flooding Deaths– lidblog.com
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If you want more evidence of how bad the denizens of the Democrat Party are, just take a look at how many are laughing in glee at the 60-some deaths in the flooding in Texas.

First came the lying leftists who claimed that Trump’s budget cuts to National Weather Service (NWS) are to blame for all these deaths in Texas. What these liars AREN’T mentioning is that the scheduled cuts won’t even happen until October. So, at least for this disaster, there have been no NWS budget cuts. And as to the cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), those cuts have just started and have had no practical effect yet on services.

So far, about ten percent of the NWS work force was cut, and if you think that is significant enough to affect operations, you are fooling yourself. Such a small cut in workers goes on all the time in companies without really harming the effectiveness of the company.

Here is another false claim:

A girls’ summer camp cut tragically short by a ‘horrific’ deluge– www.bbc.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ camp perched on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas, was a place of laughter, prayer and adventure just days ago.

But just before daybreak on Friday, the Fourth of July public holiday, the river rose 26ft (8m) in about 45 minutes amid a torrential downpour.

Many of the girls were sleeping in low-lying cabins less than 500ft (150m) from the riverbank.

Many of those bunk beds are now mud-caked and toppled, the detritus of a summer camp cut tragically short.

Destroyed personal belongings are scattered across soaked interiors where children once gathered for Bible study and campfire songs.

So far 78 fatalities have been confirmed from the floods in central Texas. At least 68, including 28 children, were in Kerr County, where Camp Mystic was located.

Among the dead is the camp’s longtime director, Richard “Dick” Eastland, and several young campers. Ten girls and a counsellor from the camp are still missing.

Texas Summer Camp Evacuates Dozens Before Deadly Flooding– dailycaller.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.


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Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.

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Camp officials at Presbyterian Mo-Ranch Assembly evacuated about 70 children and adults staying near the Guadalupe River around 1:00 a.m. on July 4 after seeing the river rising.

Aroldo Barrera, the facilities manager at Mo-Ranch, notified his boss of the rising water after monitoring the storm, according to The Associated Press. The 500-acre camp was hosting a summer camp and a large youth conference.

“We actually have been monitoring this for about 24 hours,” Mo-Ranch communications director Lisa Winters told KENS5 on Friday. “And we prepared well in advance. We were making plans and changing our plans and moving people up to higher ground well in advance last night.”

“We had no warning this was coming,” she told the AP, saying county officials did not directly communicate to them about potentially deadly flooding.

Officials swiftly moved the approximately 70 campers to a building in the vicinity, where they remained overnight, the outlet reported.

Winters said it could have been “devastating” if the camp’s officials had not been monitoring the weather.

Other camps were not as fortunate. The flooding followed a sudden storm that caused the Guadalupe River to spill over its banks, flooding Camp Mystic, a Christian children’s summer camp. 27 campers and counselors died at the site, according to an announcement. (RELATED: Death Toll Rises To 70 In Texas Flood Disaster, Including 15 Children At Christian Summer Camp)

The total death toll has now risen to at least 82, including those at Camp Mystic.

“Our hearts go out to all of the other camps,” Winters told KENS5. “If you’re in the camp and conference industry, you’re a family. And so we are all trying to pull together, trying to get information from the other camps and trying to help each other where we can.”

All the campers at Mo-Ranch were reunited with families, Winters said.

This Progressive Delivered a Brutal Fact Check for Those Politicizing the Texas Floods– townhall.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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You know the saying: a broken clock is right twice a day. For former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner, a firebrand progressive and Bernie Sanders supporter, who is the perfect person to be an MSNBC guest, she holds that honor today in the aftermath of the devastating and tragic floods in Central Texas. The damage is immense, with the death toll surging toward 100 dead as storms ripped through Kerr County and swelled the Guadalupe River 25-plus feet in less than two hours.

 

 

Dems’ Anti-Trump Flood Narrative Debunked By Weather Experts– trendingpoliticsnews.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

Texas Flood Victims’ Heartbreaking 3-Word Text To Family Before Dying Is Revealed– trendingpoliticsnews.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate them for making supposedly radical cuts.

Before the House voted Thursday to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries went on a record 8.5-hour rant on the House floor accusing Republicans of an “all-out assault on the health and well-being of everyday Americans.”

If that sounds ominous, note that he also called the bill “an all-out assault on the care being provided by Planned Parenthood” for prohibiting Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers for one year. Phrases like “health care” and “all-out assault” mean something different to the far left than to the rest of us.

 

Coast Guard rescue swimmer hailed as American hero after saving 165 during Texas flood on first mission | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

Pediatrician Sparks Uproar After Posting an Absolutely Wicked Comment About the Texas Flooding that Killed 82 People, Including 28 Kids – Is Later Canned by Her Employer | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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A medical professional whom people trusted to care for them sparked a national uproar after showing off her evil soul following one of the worst U.S. natural disasters in recent memory, and now she no longer has a job.

As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.

These victims included 28 innocent little children.

“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

CNN Journo Spends Saturday Speculating DOGE Cuts Played Role in Flooding Deaths– www.newsbusters.org

pgnewser July 9, 2025

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“Squad” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) is coming under fire for misstating her supposed hardscrabble background in the Bronx, with the Democrat now claiming she grew up in an area adjacent to the notoriously violent New York borough.

AOC, who rose from humble bartender to congressional celebrity after the 2018 election, backpedaled on her origin story after a new report alleging she went to high school in Yorktown Heights, a suburb 40 miles outside of New York City.

The controversy began when AOC fired back at President Donald Trump, who labeled her “one of the dumbest people in Congress” after she attempted to impeach him for striking Iran.

“Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” the progressive lawmaker replied on social media.