What we know about the Texas floods.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, flash flooding caused catastrophic damage in Texas Hill Country, a region of Central and South Texas, killing at least 89 people. As of Monday morning, at least 41 people are still missing, and rescue operations remain underway. The majority of the fatalities occurred in Kerr County, where 75 deaths have been reported. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that the Guadalupe River rose about 26 feet in 45 minutes Friday morning, and the city of Kerrville said the river reached its second-highest height on record. On Sunday, President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration for the county, activating the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist local officials with the disaster response.
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| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Sond, on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the floods in Texas. |
| 1:06.3 | I got to warn you guys up front. |
| 1:09.5 | This is a horrible story. |
| 1:11.6 | Just devastating. |
| 1:14.5 | I mean, yeah, I'll talk about it in my take. |
| 1:16.6 | It's just really, really awful. |
| 1:19.6 | But there are some important questions that I think need to be answered, and we're going to try and answer them today while also, you know, being forthright |
| 1:29.5 | and taking into account the tragedy at hand. So we're going to do that. It is Monday, July 7th. |
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| 1:42.7 | had a good break. Be sure to go check out the essay I published last week on Loving America on Thursday, |
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