Rising Waters, Broken Communities – The Texas Flood Tragedy

Together We Go

Mike Glover

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this emotional and in‑depth episode, Mike Force explores the devastating flash floods that struck Central Texas over the July 4th weekend, turning a holiday into a crisis.

With over 100 lives lost and more than 160 people still missing, this event has become one of the deadliest flash flood disasters in recent U.S. history.

We dive into:

• The unprecedented surge along the Guadalupe River rising more than 20 feet in under an hour and its origins in Tropical Storm Barry’s remnants

• The heart‑wrenching stories from places like Camp Mystic, where at least 27 campers and counselors died, including young children aged 8 and 9

• Heroes on the ground: early rescue missions saved hundreds, but still, more than 160 people remain missing, with search efforts ongoing

• The controversies sparking debate from outdated warning systems and county sirens to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service forcing communities to ask hard questions about preparedness and prevention.

Why This Episode Matters: Beyond the staggering statistics, this episode brings you into the lives forever changed by the floods. Join us for a moving, thoughtful reflection on loss, community, and what must change going forward.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, what's good on, guys? Welcome back to the Micforce podcast. It's good to have you back.
0:12.9	If you're listening to me on Spotify, wherever podcasts are found, make sure you go to YouTube
0:18.2	and subscribe to the Micforce Podcast channel. Also, I do content all the time every single week on Mike Glover channel. I'll link that down below as well on YouTube. And the reason I say that is because a lot of things I talk about even today on the Mike Force podcast, I've done a video on with a breakdown.
0:40.6	For example, I did a breakdown of what I think are the errors that have been made in Texas as it relates to this flood.
0:48.3	I just saw a new story this morning where they said, we're going to put out information on how or why we think mistakes
0:59.4	were made but that could wait another time and okay maybe i'll buy into that today's the eighth
1:08.0	so four days after the event and And I get the sensitivity. The
1:12.2	sensitivity is we're working because we're trying to save lives or recover in many cases
1:20.0	this many days post the actual event. But I don't like that.
1:36.0	Here's what I've seen from government, from institutions, even private institutions.
1:38.2	They don't want accountability.
1:41.7	Nobody wants accountability because they know somebody's going to get in trouble.
1:44.9	City managers, mayors, governors, they know that there is a responsibility
1:48.8	that needs to fall on someone's shoulders.
1:54.0	And when people die, everybody scatters like rats.
2:00.0	And that's a problem for me, especially in the national security
2:05.3	and public safety sphere. I think about that often as it relates to my former profession
2:12.4	where if mistakes were made, it was addressed immediately, even if casualties were part of the equation.
2:20.3	If we lost guys, we had conversations hours after the people were lost. And we talk about like, hey, what went wrong, what went right? More importantly, what went wrong, and how can we make sure we never make that mistake again?
2:35.8	And I thought about it as it relates to natural catastrophes. Right now, North Carolina is getting
2:41.2	pounded with rain, wind from this tropical storm, and it's causing floods. It's a major issue.
2:50.2	So if you take a step back and you're like, okay, well, that's going on right now.
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