Watch: Texas National Guard Rescues 7
Girls from Independence Day Flood

Heart wrenching.

Horrible horrible. Offering prayers for the families who have members missing. I cant even imagine what they are going through. My heart hurts for them. For those who are wondering "why didnt they get out in time?" You have to understand the nature of the geography in the Texas Hill Country: It is known as the Llano Uplift, which is a geological formation born of a massive earthquake/uplift millions and millions of years ago that exposed what had been millions and millions of years before THAT the bottom of the Jurassic/Triassic era ocean that split the known North American continent in half. What you have in the Hill Country is massive miles of limestone (spattered here and there with outcrops of granite) that essentially were worn down and carved out by horrific floods like the one that occurred today and the one that wiped out Wimberly some few years ago. I spent four years going to school in San Marcos, but even before that, because of having family in that same area, I knew like everyone else that anyone who lives in the Hill Country learns quickly to pay heed to flash floods. They aren't trivial, they arent "manipulations" and they arent easy to escape once that wall of water comes bearing down. There is VERY LITTLE SOIL to hold on to all that water and it follows lowest paths on its way to the Gulf. The Llano and the Guadalupe feed into the Colorado River. They are mostly tame and fun and beautiful and full of life and pleasure...but when you have massive amounts of rain such as Texas has been experiencing, there's very little place for the water to go. As I said, the little rivers that run through the Hill Country carved out those limestone hills with floods like these, and give very very little warning. The best that local weathermen can do is warn of likelihood and indicate signs that those living in flash flood areas be prepared to deal with it. In a situation like this one, I doubt anyone in Kerr County had much ability to do much. It is genuinely a natural disaster and a horrible one for that. Im only explaining all of this because Im getting tired of seeing the "itz da weather machines!" saying stuff that is truly ignorant. Geography matters, people.

The usual Dem fools are (of course) already trying to blame Trump for supposedly "cutting" FEMA funds. What's next? Blaming him for the great biblical flood and tipping his rich friend, Noah, about the coming deluge.

Lived a few years in Austin. Beautiful land with brutal weather. The Colorado goes through Austin and remains separate from the Guadalupe; but the Llano feeds the Guadalupe, and the geological summary of the Hill Country and rain-and-flood dynamics in #2 are basically spot on. The dams along the Colorado form nice reservoirs for stabilizing the water supply; but flood-mitigation is a benefit of at least equal importance.

Impeachment coming. Trump caused it all

27 dead. 9 children. 20some girls from Christian Camp Mystic still unaccounted for. The girls who were in the part of the camp out affected were 8-10 years old. Still difficult to get to isolated camps because roads are out. One councilor who got a few girls out said tje water was up too their chins. They are saying they have plenty of help local, state and federal. The mayor saying "It's going to be a sad day..." Early AM the rains began - river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. They are now talking "recovery". We know what that means. 7

Thank you, #2. Your intelligent, informative reply is most welcome. Because this is also a prime vacation place, dithe authorities don't know just who was in the flood area.

How many mobile kitchens, shelters, blankets counselors, and clean clothes and potable water systems are the atheists sending?