https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/texas-floods-summer-camp-death-toll-victims
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/death-toll-texas-floods-reaches-78-trump-plans-visit-2025-07-06/
Camp Mystic, the girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas, has confirmed that 27 children and counsellors died in the flash floods that have wreaked devastation on the area since Friday.

“Our hearts are broken alongside our families that are enduring this unimaginable tragedy. We are praying for them constantly,” a statement on the camp website read.

The search continued for missing people, it said, adding: “We ask for your continued prayers, respect and privacy for each of our families affected.”

The tragic news surfaced as Texas authorities confirmed at least 82 people had died amid the flash flooding, a figure that is expected to rise as more rain threatens to deluge the region.

Camp Mystic is a nondenominational Christian institution that has hosted the children of some of Texas’s political elite over its 99-year history. Former first lady Laura Bush was a camp counselor there, and past camp attendees included the daughters of former US president Lyndon B Johnson and the former Texas governor John Connally.

“Our hearts our broken by the devastation from the floods in Wimberley and the tragic loss of so many lives – including a precious little Hunt cousin, along with several friends’ little girls,” said Tavia Hunt, wife of the Kansas City Chiefs owner, Clark Hunt, in an Instagram post.

A Camp Mystic counselor, Chloe Childress, also died in the flooding, a representative of her high school confirmed on Sunday. Childress was remembered as compassionate and known for helping others feel, “feel safe, valued, and brave”, a statement to a local ABC affiliate said.

The number of missing people from other nearby camps has not been released, as officials said life-threatening flooding remained a threat as crews continued an urgent search for people still missing.

The Guadalupe River rose 26ft (8 meters) in 45 minutes in Friday’s pre-dawn hours, after a downpour north of San Antonio. The sheriff of Kerr county, Larry Leitha, has said at least 68 people were found dead in an area known as the Hill Country. There are several summer camps there. At least 10 other deaths were reported in the counties of Travis, Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green and Williamson, local officials have said.

The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, warned that additional rounds of heavy rains lasting into Tuesday could produce more perilous flooding, especially in places where the ground is already saturated.

Kerr residents were clearing mud from their destroyed properties and saving what belongings they could. Some said the heroism of the neighbors was all that saved them, as authorities faced questions about whether enough warnings about the downpour were issued, how many actually received them and whether enough was done to prepare for the rain.

Reagan Brown told the Associated Press that his parents, in their 80s, managed to escape uphill as water inundated their home in the town of Hunt. When Brown’s parents learned that their 92-year-old neighbor was trapped in her attic, they went back and rescued her.

“Then they were able to reach their toolshed up higher ground, and neighbors throughout the early morning began to show up at their toolshed, and they all rode it out together,” Brown said.

A video posted on X showed girls from Camp Mystic being evacuated and singing the hymns Pass It On and Amazing Grace as they crossed a bridge over the Guadalupe River, which was still flowing fiercely.

Local officials have already faced questions about what kind of flood warning systems and evacuation plans were in place in the county. Judge Rob Kelly, the county’s top elected official, told reporters that “nobody saw this coming”.

The county had considered a tornado warning-style siren in the past, but Kelly said the public had “reeled at the cost”.

“There’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing, a lot of second-guessing and Monday morning quarterbacking,” said the Republican US representative Chip Roy, whose district includes Kerr county, according to the Associated Press. “There’s a lot of people saying ‘why’ and ‘how’, and I understand that.”

The US Department of Homeland Security responded to criticism of warning systems on Sunday on social media by saying mainstream media were “lying” and that the National Weather Service issued timely warnings.

Donald Trump on Sunday signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr county, which is meant to unlock federal resources meant to help local officials. He said he would probably visit on Friday, a week after the deadly flash flood, saying to go earlier might impede search and recovery efforts.

Texas voted to defund weather detection, give away their FEMA money to private prison contractors because they hate immigrants, and now the dying from avoidable weather phenomena is starting.

TRUMP IS WINNING TEXAS SHEDDING DEAD WEIGHT MAGA MAGA MAGA

>>1418568
Ah yes. Deporting immigrants destroyed Texan weather patterns, causing a flood.
Profound leftist theory!

(OP here)
I think it's not great that a bunch of people died, but it is just a weather event that caught them very unprepared.

This being said, the underestimation of the destructive potential of extreme weather seems to go hand in hand with climate change denial.

I do still find it sad that people think prayer will change a damn thing. People huffing paint get better results.

Wasting money on ethnopolitik when we're facing an existential threat of climate catastrophe and ecological breakdown is the silly part.

Anyway, mulch your local fossil fuel billionaire, and have a great rest of your day.

>>1418568
Interesting theory. Except for the fact the everything WAS detected and warnings WERE issued. Except for the fact that water levels rose 25 feet or more in half an hour at 4 in the morning, since speed and unpredictability are what makes flash floods FLASH floods. Except for the fact that Americans want illegal aliens gone, not immigrants. But hey, what do facts matter when you can gravestand like a ghoul?

>>1418578
>the girls were going to die regardless bro
>its not trumps fault they died after he defunded the thing that would make them not die
>how dare you politicize their deaths
do you pretend your airsoft gun is a tranny dick when you're cleaning it?

>>1418585
Except for the fact that those cuts don't go into effect until OCTOBER.

in the slightly revised words of morty smith "[Trump is] like Hitler, but even Hitler cared about Germany or something"

>>1418586
Keep saying it, maybe it'll make Trump unmurder those kids

>>1418568
>this flood was avoidable
Source?

>>1418589
>>1418568
Apparently, the area has been skimping on flood mitigation infrastructure for a while now.

>>1418577
>Wasting money on ethnopolitik when we're facing an existential threat of climate catastrophe and ecological breakdown is the silly part.
When has humanity not faced this existential threat?
The 4.2 kiloyear event caused akkadia and the entire indus valley to collapse
The bronze age collapse led to massive political unrest resulting in the collapse of the mycaneans and Egypt new kingdom
The little ice age in lat antiquity caused widespread famine across Europe and it's effects on the byzentine and sassanid (Google "the worse year to be alive", although admittedly this weather event was caused by vulcanism)

We are literally just out of the little ice age that ended in 1850. Of course the weather is still changing, as it always has

>>1418589
They didn't pray hard enough to saint floyd

>>1418592
i'm demoralized

>>1418591
I think the difference is we know what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how to fix it, but everyone is ignoring it, either because they don’t give a shit due to not being around when the worst of it comes or because oil execs need/deserve their 3rd yacht.

As Hurricane Katrina did for GW Bush, so will these floods do the same to Trump

>>1418586
That's not true
>>1418326

>>1418602
Trumps budget takes effect in October. Thanks for admitting you don't live in reality.

>>1418629
they didn't need those staff members elon fired illegally anyways

>>1418629
You're not getting it. This is God punishing Texans for their sin of voting for Trump.

>>1418629
>I don't know what a buyout is or how they took effect in April because I'm an Indian shill
We know.

Ted Cruz is enjoying his vacation in Greece, not Cancun this time.

>>1418629
DOGE firings have been in the last five months. Thanks for admitting you don't live in reality.

>vacation in a place called Flash Flood Alley
>flash flood

You can't explain that!

>>1418575
Capitalism requires a certain level of stability and arguably benefits from the ability to accurately predict extreme events. Nothing "leftist" about it, unless you're one of those nu-conservatives who thinks capitalism is too far to the left.

>>1418646
The county doesn't have a warning system in place now, and they didn't five months ago, either. Has nothing to do with DOGE or NOAA. There was a warning in effect. The local government had no infrastructure with which to do anything about it.

>>1418686
Texas is run by corrupt republicans and criminals because the average Texas republican loves their leaders corrupt, dumb, and spiteful

>>1418687
and Christian, can't forget that.

>>1418648
Don't forget they built the camp IN A FUCKING DRIED RIVERBED.

This shit was a disaster waiting to happen. Though don't think this absolves the people who cut their warning budget; they should've known they should've evacuated the second the possibility of a flood came up.

>>1418686
They literally did; it was called NOAA. Except now NOAA is understaffed and without a budget because fuckhead in chief defunded them.

>>1418686
Jesus christ you have the memory capacity of an aphid.

>>1418829
he knows, it's his job to pretend he doesn't know

>>1418829
>>1418831
Nah, they're trolling by technically telling the truth in a way that furthers their lie.
>The local government had no infrastructure
NOAA is federal, so of course the local government didn't have anything local. They relied on the federal service that was cut.

They're still a dumbass shill pushing retarded talking points.

>>1418589
by not building a fucking kids camp in the texas flood alley
why are conservacucks so fucking retarded

https://www.reddit.com/r/TexasPolitics/s/XhIlDP0xWK
According to this, the county had multiple chances to build an automatic warning system that could have saved a lot of lives and chose not to because the money came from the Biden and Obama administrations. Absolutely ghoulish behavior.

>>1418941
And now they're saying they didn't build it for budget reasons when the minutes of that meeting say they had millions of federal money in the bank and it would cost the county nothing.

Any chance any of you guys know where one would find a list of all the missing/confirmed dead people?
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I've scoured everywhere on the net, but my google-fu is weak, all I find is a handful of names and vague articles.
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I'm trying to find a friend that stopped responding during the time the Texas flood happened, any help would be appreciated.