Texas blame game

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dozens of people were swept away by flash floods in Texas this weekend. The finger-pointing has already begun. This episode was produced by Denise Guerra and Peter Balanon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabrielle Berbey and Miles Bryan, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. A search and rescue worker looks through debris along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Good morning.
0:04.1	Oh, relax, relax, relax. I've just got to...
0:07.8	In Texas, officials are facing hard questions about why so many people were in the path of floods that inundated parts of Kirk County this weekend.
0:16.6	You all ready? As of 8.30 this morning, we recovered 75 deceased bodies here in Kirk County, including
0:24.4	48 adults and 27 children.
0:28.3	Many of the victims were children because that area is home to a bunch of summer camps.
0:32.5	Someone told me that when they were walking around campgrounds, that they saw that cabin five, their
0:41.0	wall had fallen over.
0:43.3	And my door flooded away.
0:46.4	What went so wrong here?
0:48.3	Did the weather alert system fail?
0:50.2	Did cuts to the National Weather Service leave critical jobs unstaffed? We've got some answers coming up on Today Explained.
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