# Massive flooding in Texas; 20 children missing from a summer camp

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**Created:** [July 4, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512 "2025-07-04T21:50:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/massive-flooding-in-texas-20-children-missing-from-a-summer-camp/1020512/101 "2025-07-07T21:03:09Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> An article which @LSLGuy just posted in [a thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/212) contains this (emphasis mine):

Thanks for the cite. A few posts farther up in that thread I cited two more cites to a Texas-based weather blogger. Same info, different authors:

> [@Demanding cites for things that would take you 2 second to look up is lazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/206):
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> > [@Demanding cites for things that would take you 2 second to look up is lazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/204):
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> > > [@Demanding cites for things that would take you 2 second to look up is lazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/demanding-cites-for-things-that-would-take-you-2-second-to-look-up-is-lazy/1020281/197):
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> > > NWS FTW.
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> > Didn’t Trump nerf them recently? Ask Texans.
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> There is no evidence that the NWS cuts did anything to harm the forecasting or response in Texas from Post-Barry flooding. Too little too soon.
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> For sure the NWS cuts will bring widespread harm all across the country soon enough. It was a profoundly ignorant bit of royalist toddler vandalism that itself alone is grounds for immediate removal from office as manifestly unfit.
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> See here for some highly informed commentary on the topic of Texas flooding and NWS cuts:
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> [Making sense of the weather that led to a horrible Texas flooding tragedy, plus Tropical Storm Chantal – The Eyewall](https://theeyewall.com/making-sense-of-the-weather-that-led-to-a-horrible-texas-flooding-tragedy-plus-tropical-storm-chantal/)
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> and
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> [Chantal makes landfall near Myrtle Beach and now moving inland as a rainmaker – The Eyewall](https://theeyewall.com/chantal-makes-landfall-near-myrtle-beach-and-now-moving-inland-as-a-rainmaker/)

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