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Texas floods: could the deaths have been prevented?

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Over 100 people, including dozens of children, are dead after flash flooding in Texas. Could this have been avoided given a nearly identical tragedy took place in 1987? Did Trump’s cuts contribute? And what went wrong with the flood warning system?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory


Guest: Lara Spirit, Washington Correspondent, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Further reading: Where is it flooding in Texas? The devastation in maps and video.

Clips: NewsNation, France 24, KPRC 2, CBS, YouTube / History Corner, KVUE, FOX, YouTube / Camp Mystic, YouTube / Allie Coates, Democracy Now!, YouTube / Meidas Touch, Bloomberg, WOAI, Sky, WUSA9. 

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From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

1:20.6

In Texas, as floodwaters recede and the death toll slowly rises, a furious political storm is brewing.

1:27.4

People have questions about this. Some critics are blaming doge cuts to the National Weather Service for putting those

1:28.2

lives at risk. With over 100 dead and many still missing, residents want to know who is to blame.

1:35.9

In light of the floods, do you think that the federal government needs to hire back any of the

1:40.2

meteorologists who are fired in the wild of last month? I wouldn't know that.

1:45.4

I really wouldn't.

1:46.1

I would think not.

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