(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Why does the U.S. just continue to get pummeled by historic storm after historic storm? We keep being told that what we are witnessing is “normal”, but there is definitely nothing “normal” about any of this. A couple of decades ago, it was extremely rare for the U.S. to be hit by a “billion dollar disaster”, but over the past couple of years we have been averaging a “billion dollar disaster” about every two weeks. The American people deserve the truth, because people are dying.
Most of the people that just died in Texas were caught totally by surprise by the floods.
The National Weather Service had warned that rain was coming, but a top Texas official is admitting that the actual amount of rain that ultimately fell “was never in any of those forecasts”…
“The original forecast that we received Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and 4-8 inches in the Hill Country,” said Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd at a press conference Friday. “The amount of rain that fell at this specific location was never in any of those forecasts.”
Sudden thunderstorms dumped more than 10 inches of rain on the area, causing heavy flooding from the Guadalupe River.
Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas—who also spoke at the press conference—said that the catastrophic flash flooding happened because the skies “dumped more rain than what was forecasted” on two of the river’s forks.
At one point, 7 inches of rain fell in a three hour period.
As USA Today has noted, 7 inches of rain is “nearly 122 million gallons of water per square mile”…
On July 4, rain was falling at 3-4 inches per hour, with some locations recording a deluge of up to 7 inches of rain in just three hours, the National Weather Service said. Seven inches of rain is nearly 122 million gallons of water per square mile. Over 7 square miles that’s enough water to fill the AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.
I have a hard time even imagining that much water.
As water relentlessly poured from the sky, the Guadalupe River “rose from about one foot to more than 36 feet” in just 3 hours…
Reports from the U.S. Geological Survey show the waters of the Guadalupe rose from about one foot to more than 36 feet between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. Friday morning. The wall of water sharply increased at 5:15 a.m. when it spiked from 1.82 feet to 36 feet an hour and a half later.
In my entire lifetime, I have never seen anything like this.
In the middle of the night, rushing waters suddenly arrived without any warning, and many victims never even had a chance.
According to the Daily Mail, the final death toll is expected to be above 100…
Texas’s Division of Emergency Management predicted the number of dead as a result of catastrophic flooding in Kerrville on July 4 would top 100, Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.
In an email sent out Saturday, the state disaster office told partners the number of dead would surpass 100, two different sources confirmed to Daily Mail.
The estimate of the dead is vastly different than the message state officials are projecting publicly, insisting that they are still searching for people who are alive, and refusing to say rescue efforts have shifted to recovery of remains.
In the midst of this great tragedy, there were heroes that were willing to give everything in order to save others.
27-year-old Julian Ryan and his family were sleeping when the floodwaters hit their trailer.
As the waters rose to waist height, Ryan’s two young children were put on a mattress that was floating, but the waters just continued to rise.
That was when Julian decided that the only way that he could save his family would be to break the window…
With no escape route, Julian looked to the only option: the window.
He punched through the glass, but the broken edges almost cut his arm clean off, Christinia told KHOU, and severed an artery.
As blood poured from Julian’s limb, the other two adults tried calling 911 – but nobody came.
Julian knew that he wasn’t going to make it, and with his dying words he expressed his love for his family.
Thankfully, Julian’s sacrifice was not in vain because his family was able to miraculously escape…
Julian was losing consciousness from blood loss and the water had risen up to their chins.
With his dying words, Julian told his family: “I’m sorry, I’m not going to make it. I love y’all.”
Christinia said the trailer was eventually broken in half by the force of the currents – allowing the rest of the family to escape.
70-year-old Richard Eastland is another hero that gave his life during this great tragedy.
His family has been running Camp Mystic since 1974, and he did all that he could to save campers from the floodwaters…
The director of Camp Mystic was killed while trying to save girls from the horrific flooding that swept through the Texas summer camp.
Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, 70, died while trying to rescue campers from the biblical rushing waters that struck the state on July 4.
At least 11 girls and one counselor are missing from Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, and five of their fellow campers have died after the rushing waters destroyed the all-girls private Christian summer camp.
Richard Eastland will be remembered as a hero.
According to one former camper, it wasn’t a surprise “that his last act of kindness and sacrifice was working to save the lives of campers”…
The Eastlands have owned and operated Camp Mystic since 1974, and many viewed him as a father figure at the camp.
‘It doesn’t surprise me at all that his last act of kindness and sacrifice was working to save the lives of campers,’ The Kerrville Daily Times guest columnist Paige Sumner said in a tribute to Eastland.
‘Dick was the father figure to all of us while we were away from home at Camp Mystic for six weeks.
‘He was the father of four amazing boys, but he had hundreds of girls each term who looked up to him like a dad. I would never have taken a fishing class if it wasn’t taught by my new friend Dick.’
There is no greater love than laying down your life for others.
But could this great tragedy have been avoided in the first place?
Many on social media are pointing out that “rain enhancement projects” have recently been conducted in Texas. Needless to say, we need answers from those that were involved in those projects.
Humanity should never mess with the weather.
Hopefully some new laws will get passed as a result of everything that we just witnessed.
Unfortunately, the disasters aren’t going to stop any time soon.
In fact, a tropical storm could soon bring “severe weather” to Washington D.C., New York City and Boston…
With deadly Texas flooding dominating headlines this weekend, we now shift focus to Tropical Storm Chantal, which made landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, early Sunday. This marks the first tropical storm to make landfall in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season—and the earliest to do so since 2022.
Chantal is the third tropical storm of this year’s hurricane season, following Andrea and Barry, both of which formed in June. The new storm appeared on our radar Friday, with spaghetti models showing a potential path up the U.S. East Coast, through parts of the Mid-Atlantic, and possibly over southern New Jersey and New York City.
Updated spaghetti models posted by meteorologist Ben Noll on X show a strong level of confidence in Chantal’s track into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, where severe weather could be seen next from D.C. to New York and Boston.
We just keep getting hit by one major disaster after another.
You would think that most of the population would have figured out that something has gone terribly wrong after everything that we have been through over the past few years.
What we are experiencing is not even close to “normal”, and it is time to start demanding some answers.
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Why the National Debt Is the Looming Threat to Your Retirement Plans
The Hidden Crisis No One Is Talking About
Every day, headlines warn about inflation, market volatility, and global instability—but the greatest looming threat to your retirement might be something far more fundamental: America’s skyrocketing national debt.
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With debt growing faster than most Americans can possibly fathom, the government’s borrowing habits have reached historic—and dangerous—levels. To cover spending, Washington is making moves with their budget packages, tariffs, and taxes. Is it enough? No. It’s not even close to what would be necessary to stop out-of-control debt, let alone reverse it.
How Debt Erodes Your Nest Egg
There are only so many levers government and the Federal Reserve can pull to try to protect Americans, assuming that’s even a top priority for them. Unfortunately, pulling one level to relive one pressure invariably adds pressure from another direction. This is why prices keep going up even as inflation reportedly slows.
For retirees and pre-retirees, that’s a perfect storm. The dollars you’ve worked hard to save lose value, and your cost of living increases while your investments lag behind.
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In fact, during times of high inflation and fiscal instability, gold often performs its best—because it’s seen as a store of value when faith in the dollar weakens. This is why prices have skyrocketed this year and are expected by many economists to continue going up in the future.
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