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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am only seeing British and Canadian news updates about the awful incident. How’s the mainstream American media reporting what is going on? It’s horrific that the death toll is now over 100.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/07/texas-floods-rescue-teams-search-missing-more-heavy-rains-forecast-latest-news-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other[/quote]

Are you able to google?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/north-texas-girls-among-dead-camp-mystic-attendees-after-deadly-central-texas-floods/ar-AA1HZP4p?ocid=BingNewsSerp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/camp-mystic-counselor-who-died-in-texas-flooding-remembered-as-loyal-and-beloved/ar-AA1I51Hx?ocid=BingNewsSerp[/quote]

I can see that link. This was from the Guardian as well, but it does not tell this story.

Floods were 'an act of God ... it's not the administration's fault,' says White House
Karoline Leavitt again conflated concerns over whether adequate warnings were sent out to people soon enough (most of the alerts were sent in the middle of the night while people were sleeping) with accusing the administration of responsibility for the flooding.

“The alerts were sent out before the flood when people were sleeping because the flood hit in the very early hours of the morning,” said Leavitt.

“People were sleeping in the middle of the night when the flood came. That was an act of God; it’s not the administration’s fault the floods hit when it did,” she went on, before insisting that “there were early and consistent warnings”.

There have been a number of questions raised over whether the flood alerts were sent quickly and widely enough, and if Donald Trump’s job cuts hampered the National Weather Service.
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