What Next | Was the Flash Flooding in Texas Preventable?

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

After one of the deadliest floods in American history in central Texas, people are looking at cuts to the National Weather Service and FEMA’s absence contributing to the devastation. But one looming problem is much, much bigger. Guest: Jeff Goodell, writer covering climate change, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet and The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0	On July 4th, journalist Jeff Goodell stood on his back porch in Austin, Texas with a bad feeling in his gut.
1:14.8	He was watching a storm roll through.
1:17.2	You know, I live in Texas.
1:18.4	We tend to have intense rainfalls.
1:21.2	It's not an uncommon thing.
1:23.9	But this was particularly intense.
1:26.4	This was, I don't like to use this phrase, but I will.
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