It's Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the Gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

And I probably like you have been very bothered by the news coming out of Kerr County, Texas.

What they didn't do to warn themselves, but also, of course, the death toll, the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, indicating

that 160 people are still missing. When you hear about the missing in a flood, this is not

people trapped under a building, you think they're dead. You can't survive underwater, you can't

even survive, or why would you survive if you were washed away by

the waters but stuck somewhere else. Maybe one or two people could. So the mind I think probably goes,

I don't know, maybe some people say, well, 160 dead. That maybe means many of them are alive. There's

hope. But another group of people

might go, I think, a bit more logically, just based on what we know about floods, that those

160 are not going to have been proved to survive. However, do have to caution you or perhaps

console you that in disasters, not only is there

a lot of unknowns and bad information gets spread out, but especially with missing people

in the type of disaster that we're talking about, where death comes quickly, there is very

often misreporting about the number of missing because the people who are missing

are not missing to themselves.

Their whereabouts just might not be known to loved ones.

And as a case in point, let us take the Maui wildfires.

I'll quote from an article in Big Island now from August 22nd, so just with just a couple of

days after the wildfires, 115 people confirmed dead with 850 still accounted for.

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