7-7-25 - 6am - Texas Flood

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Back in the day there was a conservative voice of
Rush Rush leftists and then exposed a pleasure of other
great Americans.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Expressing the truth.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I believe one of those was Jesse Kelly, and if
he hadn't gone on his book tour, I would have
never heard of you. Enjoy your time off, and may
God bless you and expose me and others to other
great Americans. Who knows who we may get turned on
to in addition to you and Dragon during your absence.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Well, my absence is over temporarily. I may I may
have to be gone this coming Monday and Tuesday. I'm
I'm not quite sure yet, but I'll find out later.
But those are very kind words. I appreciate it. I
very much appreciate it. I Uh, we've we got to

(00:50):
do the map. We just got to do the map.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
We said you were going to take care of that.
This weekend.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I was busy this weekend, right, I was busy. Celebrated
the two hundred and forty ninth birthday of the country.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
What were you doing, Yeah, we're blowing stuff up?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh did you really? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
The nephews came down from They always make a trip
to Uh to Wyoming and spend it.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And then they bring the countermand across the state line.
So you send your children up to bring the counter
band across the state lines.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
You know, my children enjoy what the nephews do, but
they're participating.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
So you send the miners. You send the miners up.
Did you have an adult drive the miners up? Send
the miners in with cash and say get whatever you
want come back.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
They spend their own money, so they do, you know,
so they spend quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, well, and then.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Put on a fantastic show.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I just think it's amazing. We're in the two hundred
and fiftieth year of this country. There are times when
I'd been thinking we'd make it to two hundred and
fifty years. There are times when I wonder we'll actually
make it to two hundred and fifty first year. Like,
you know, next year, when we enter into the two
hundred and fifty first year, we have to though, because
I'm sure it's gonna be a big beautiful bash. You know,

(02:13):
we have the big beautiful bill. We're gonna have a
big beautiful bash the BBB. Somebody I got so tired
of pulling at the one big beautiful bill that somebody
on the weekend program came up with ob cubed three syllables,
ob cubed, ob cubed, And then I was concerned that

(02:33):
people wouldn't know what cubed meant. But let's let's address
the Let's address the Texas situation, because I am first
and foremost. It is a human tragedy, and it is

(02:58):
a tragedy because we have children involved. I mean, it
would be a tragedy with adults involved too, but it's
a tragedy because we had kids, you know, at summer
camp and suddenly they're vanished. They're gone, and not all
of them, but many of them. It's they still call

(03:21):
it a search and rescue mission. They're still looking. Who knows.
I mean, miracles happen, so there may be others, but
I have to admit that as I woke up to
the news, and then of course, as I'm doing my
typical you know, going through the interwebs and looking at

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different stories, I come across some of the most absolutely
stupid stuff that you could find. Now, some of you
may know the name Leslie Marshall. Leslie Marshall follows me.
We follow each other on x. She is a Democrat strategist.

(04:08):
She's been in DC for a long time. You've probably
seen her on Fox News. She's oftentimes she's in fact,
she may be a Fox News contributor. I'm not sure.
So she's one of the air quotes here, token lefties
that Fox will put on to provide some sort of
counterpoint when they feel like they're overwhelmingly you know, well,

(04:29):
we're being due conservative, so let's have a different point
of view, and they'll bring Leslie Marshall on. Leslie Marshall
and some friend of hers tweeted out about how climate change,
it's all climate change. John Corning came out, oh my gosh,
this is one hundred year flood. And then then we

(04:50):
started hearing stories about and in fact, I deliberately this
morning turned on Fox and Friends, which I have not
been doing because I just I cannot stand the program.
But I really wanted to what they were doing, and
of course it was the same thing. It was just
it was so now, don't get me wrong again, I've
got to keep emphasizing this. For the families involved, this

(05:12):
is horrific, absolutely horrific. But I think as a nation,
we are we are getting sucked into, whether it's the
twenty four hour seven cable news coverage, it's social media,
it's public education, it is well, we're just we're a

(05:37):
nation of idiots, truly a nation of idiots. So I
want to walk through some of the things that are
misinformation that's being spread around about this event. This weather
event doesn't have anything to do with climate change. In fact,

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I'm going to go through I I made a list
of and I don't want to fall into the trap
that others do of trying to put themselves. I know
I do that with political issues because I've been there

(06:19):
and in this situation. I've been there as the under
Secretary of Home Insecurity, as the director of FEMA. I've
seen these incidents. I've been in the middle of these incidents,
and they're they're not uncommon. It happens all the time,

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maybe not to this degree, but we get we lose
our perspective. And again I emphasize that if you're the
parents of a missing child, you don't want to hear
what I'm about to say. And I fully understand that.
And I'm not speaking to you because I recognize your suffering,

(07:06):
the emotional toll that you are going through. So I'm
not addressing this to anyone who is directly involved in
the tragedy. I'm instead directing my comments to everyone who
is consuming the cabal that is using this to try
to draw eyeballs, to try to drive clicks, to drive

(07:28):
everything they can, and to get you all stirred up,
and to play with your emotions and try to get you.
And we should look.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
I do.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
I feel sorry for the parents. I can't imagine my
grandchildren being in any event like this. You know, my
daughter and her husband, they travel all the time, and
they've gotten aware. I mean that granddaughter is now six
years old and she travels all the time with them,

(08:00):
and I constantly worry about it because I'm a grandfather.
My other granddaughter was dating a guy that let's just
say that nobody, nobody in the family liked him. It
would be kind of like if she's been dating Dragon.
Everybody would have been like, oh my god, can't you
can't you do better than that? But we found out

(08:22):
over the weekend that she she broke up with him.
I want to say, maybe three or four weeks ago.
I may be off. I don't you know, because I'm
the last to know. About anything. So it could have
been four months ago and I just learned about it
four weeks ago. But she broke up with him, and
I had I had talked to her, and I said,
you know, we'll just call We'll say her name is Sally.

(08:46):
Her name is not Sally, but I said, Sally, you know,
you make your own choices, and your grandfather's gonna respect
those choices. But you're a beautiful young lady, and you
have ambition, and you have smart and you have everything. Uh,
I think you could do better. And she kind of
knew that everybody in the family didn't like this guy well,

(09:10):
and I was, and I was worried about her being
with him because I saw how he even even when
the family was together, like sometimes he would come to
dinner with us, and I just thought, man, you're, you know, loser,
total loser. Well turns out he uh was drunk driving.

(09:31):
He uh best I tell they were doing donuts in
a parking lot somewhere. I don't know whether he hit
a building or other cars, or he flipped his car
or what. But he's in the hospital. Uh, he's undergoing
serious surgeries. Uh, he's you know, he's he's probably not

(09:53):
gonna he may or may not be able to walk,
And all I could think about was my granddaughter could
have been in that car. So I understand and the
the worry that parents and grandparents have about their children.
So none about, none of anything I'm about to say,
has anything trying to diminish the tragedy that those parents

(10:18):
are suffering in Texas. Instead, for the rest of us
that are not there, you know, you would think that
the entire state of Texas is shut down because of this,
and you would have thinked you would think that this
is the only thing in the news because of this.

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And for those I've always been fascinated dealing with disasters
for the almost six years in DC, that the rest
of the world goes on. It's that area, and that
area can be ten square miles, it could be a
thousand square miles, it could be even more. But outside
whatever that area of operations is that we're dealing with

(11:02):
a disaster, other places life goes on. So I'm addressing
all of us whose lives are going on but are
being inundated by all of this news about this story,
and are probably you know, I'm sure your heartstrings are
being tugged at but you're also being fed a bunch
of bull crap, and I've really kind of reached my

(11:26):
limit with it. So I'm trying to delicately balance that
the tragedy is ongoing at the same time that I
want to give you some perspective that may cause you
to say, maybe I need to be a little more
discerning about who I listen to or from whom I
get my information, because or is I'm looking up at

(11:51):
Fox right now. Janis Dean is on giving a report.
I heard her on the way in this morning. The
kyro is. Of course, this is breaking news. Now, it's
been breaking news now for what seventy two hours? Break
breaking news. Okay, well, let's let's calm down.

Speaker 7 (12:11):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
But you know, all day to day you'll hear every
every segment every show on Fox News. We'll start with
what this is Michael Brown Fox News with this Fox
News Alert, Fox News Alert, Fox News Alert, Fox News Alert.
We're kept at this level of anxiety that is just this.

(12:35):
It's driving me crazy. Anyway, Janisteine's up there the Chiron
at least I can't read. At least eighty two dead,
eleven camp are still missing after Texas floods. She's going through,
she's going through some of the historic cress which are
by the way. This one is at no The one
in nineteen thirty two is at thirty six feet. I
think this one was at thirty eight feet. But this

(12:58):
is the point being which I'll be give you some
detail in a minute. This is not new, and it's
not new for this particular area, but we'll get to
that in a minute. But to establish some sort of
baseline about how crazy things are, let's go to TikTok.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
I quit.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I'm done. I'm done with America. I'm done with taxes.

Speaker 7 (13:23):
I'm not doing it anymore. I'm going to cash out
like monopoly and go and hide and move somewhere. You're
telling me that my tax dollars are going to build
an Alcatraz Auschwitz Alligator Ashwitz Alligator Alcatraz Auschwitz. I don't
even know what you want to call it, A detention center,
a concentration camp in Florida that our tax money is

(13:45):
paying for. I'm done. I can't do it anymore. I
can't feed the system that is doing everything that I
stand against. I didn't vote for this, I didn't vote
for any of this. I'm done playing the game. I
just I want a tree in a farm and land
and somewhere else. I can't keep feeding into this system.
Am I the only one? Because it's been what today's second,

(14:09):
it's been seven months at this man's been office, and
I'm exhausted and I can't. I can't do it anymore.
I'm cashing out monopoly? Am I the only Come with me?
Let's go just.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
An example of how this is. Everything is Trump's fault. Everything.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
If you spart Donald Trump, I better not see you
wearing red, white and blue, flying a flag, eating apple pie,
or even taking the day off work.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, you know, don't. You can't do any of those things.
You can't. You cannot at all be involved in any
of the things. John Cornyon, who should know better.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
And this was one hundred year flood event in an
area that had been known to flood, but nothing like
this where the flood waters rose twenty six feet in
about forty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Well, in nineteen thirty two it rows thirty six feet.
But there's a lot of misunderstanding about the phrase one
hundred year flood. One hundred year flood does not mean
that a flood occurs exactly or even generally once every
one hundred years. Do you know what it refers to.

(15:21):
It refers to a flood event with a one percent
chance of occurring in any given year based on historical
data and statistical modeling. So one hundred year of flood.
That term describes the flood's magnitude and the rarity indicating
it reaches a level expected to be equal or exceeded
once every one hundred years on average. So let's think

(15:45):
about the key point. One is probability based. One hundred
year flood has a one percent annual probability one in
one hundred chance of occurring. It's not on a fixed schedule.
It can happen more frequently, it can happen twice in
a decade, happened three or four times in a decade,
or it can happen less frequently because of just natural

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variability in weather and in climate. It's based on historical data.
The one hundred year flood designation comes from analyzing past
flood records and changing climate patterns which occur naturally and
land use such as urbanization, all of which can alter

(16:29):
future probabilities. Now, in terms of severity, it typically describes
a significant flood event. Often we use that for planning purposes,
like for designing infrastructure or setting flood insurance rates determining
flood zones. For example, a river might have a one

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hundred year flood stage defined as a specific water level,
let's just say twenty feet. Now, if that level is
reached or exceeded, then it becomes classific. Is a one
hundred year flood, regardless of when the last one occurred
or how often they're occurring. Now, over time that may
change the definition. But you could have one hundred year flood.

(17:11):
It's not that oh my gosh, this has not happened
in one hundred years. The Guadalupe River in Texas, particularly
in the hill Country region, is indeed prone to flash
flooding because of its geography. Do you know what has
a nickname? Do you know what the nickname is for
this area where this event has occurred? Flash flood Alley.

(17:38):
Over the past one hundred and fifty years, going back
as far as I could find records going back to
eighteen seventy five, that same river, that same area has
experienced numerous significant flood events, often classified as one hundred
year floods or even greater occurring even more often, meaning

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they have a one percent or annual probability of occurrence.
So I want to go through the records and give
you some perspective that while this is tragic, it's not unusual,

(18:19):
and in fact, in some cases it's been worse. But no,
you're going to get inundated with it so that you
may think it's the worst ever.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
Morning Dragon, Welcome back to Michel Michael. What you're describing
is what we experienced in northern Colorado about what was
it twelve years ago when we had the big flood
up here? And that was a five hundred year flood,
so big deal, right, People in Colorado didn't even know
what happened. So if you talk to people down in
Castle Rock, they had no idea that there was an impact.

(19:00):
Maybe they remember hearing about a flood, but we saw
the same thing here.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
I have a good day, and.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
If you recall, everyone kept talking about one they forgot
the big Thompson flood. And when they would remember the
Big Thompson flood, they would compare the damage estimates from
that flood to the flood from was it twelve years ago?
I don't remember how long it was either, but then

(19:28):
they said, oh my, look, this is so much worse
because the damage is so much worse. Yeah, because there's
so much more infrastructure. I mean, if you've driven at all,
and I haven't for quite some time, if you've driven
between Denver and Fort Collins and I twenty five, you
look at some of those little towns up there that
have just exploded in terms of the size and the

(19:49):
number of homes and commercial developments. And of course think
about this too. Every time you build a home, not
every time, but ninety nine percent of the time you
build a home, you're building on a plot in a
subdivision that has asphalt streets or a commercial area that

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has you know, flat top roofs and then parking lots.
And then you know you're widening, like twenty five, and
you know you're putting more and more concrete, so the
water has less and less space with which to be
absorbed by the earth, so the flooding is faster, higher
and causes more damage. Over at CNN as a great

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example I think of just listen closely to how they
phrase it. What's unclear is weather.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
And for Kerr County, that happened earlier today. CNN Senior
reporter Betsy Cline is now with us.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
So, Betsy, you're traveling with the president who's been spending
the weekend in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
What else are you.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
Hearing, well, Frederica, The scope and scale of the devastation
that we are seeing from our teams on the ground
make clear that this is going to be a very
challenging response and recovery process that's going to require state, local,
and federal governments to work very closely together.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
So we are starting to get.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
A sense of what that federal response is going to
look like. President Trump saying that he has signed that
major Disaster declaration.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
He said in a post.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
To social media, quote, I just signed a major Disaster
Declaration for Kerr County, Texas to ensure that our brave
first responders immediately have the resources they need. These families
are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost and
many still missing. That Trump administration continues to work closely
with state and local leaders.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Now. According to the Department of Homeland Security.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
This means that VIMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has
been activated. They are going to help with the recovery
efforts as they try to rebuild.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
In this community. FEMA is going to pay.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
About seventy five percent of the cost of those recovery efforts.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
As what does that mean FEMA is going to be
involved in the recovery. Well, FEMA is going to be
issuing checks, They're going to be help helping rebuild roads, bridges, highways,
public infrastructure. You know, if there's a public school that
you know, they'll be helping to rebuild that, you know,

(22:26):
public highways and roads, they'll they'll be helping with that. Now,
in terms of individuals, there will be some individual assistance,
but it's not meant to make someone whole. It's simply
as a stop gap measure that, oh, you need some
money for some clothing, or you know, you need some
you know, temporary place to live. Will help you with
that temporarily. But what does it mean for the FES

(22:49):
to become involved?

Speaker 5 (22:50):
Well as the US Coast Guard, which has been on
scene for search and rescue efforts over the last several days.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
They didn't wait for disaster declaration. The Coast Guard immediately
goes into action, as does the National Guard, and the
National Guard didn't have to wait for a Title ten
ACTI Active Active, Active activisation from the President. The governor

(23:19):
did that. The governor activated the Texas Guard.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
There are two US Coast Guard helicopters along with three
fixed wing aircraft with infrared imaging. That, of course, is
such important technology as they look to track any kind
of movement among all of this debris. But state and
local leaders in Central Texas have said that so far
they are getting what they need from the Trump administration.

(23:45):
Of course, we continue to track that, but as we
track the federal.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Response, did you hear the butt? Here we go to.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
This flooding and its third day of recovery efforts. There
are a couple of important questions to follow here. Number
one and is the National Weather Service. This is the
agency that is responsible for the country's weather forecasting. They
issued a series of alerts on Friday in those very
early hours, saying there is going to be life threatening flooding.

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Now it's unclear how many people they were able to
reach with those warnings. We heard in that news conference
that there are some people that didn't even have cell
service where they were who were impacted.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
It's also the middle of the night.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
What's also unclear is whether cuts to this agency impacted.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
How those warnings were disseminated.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
But President Trump here in New Jersey, he's expected to
leave in the coming moment.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
That's enough of her. So we're already starting to play
the game of who do we blame? Now, before I
go into the history of what's occurred in this area,
let's get some facts on the table again. And I'm
going to keep throwing this caveat out. The Camp Mystic

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flood disaster is very unfortunate. It's a tragedy. I hope
all the missing girls are found. My heart breaks for
those parents. It's unimaginable. But the usual suspects are going
to exploit this tragedy to score political points. And some
of the left wing activists are going to blame the
flood and climate change, and others are going to blame

(25:25):
the deaths and the missing people on inadequate warnings, just
like she was trying to imply caused by so called
low staffing. If the National Weather Service, which of course
was caused by Trump administration federal reduction and forces riffs
staffing cuts, didn't play any part in that tragedy, not
at all. The National Weather Service issued a flood wash

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for Kirk County more than twelve hours ahead of the flood.
They also issued a flash flood warning, a flash flood
warning for Hunt and Ingram three hours before the Guadalupe
River began to climb. That's plenty of lead time with
respect to the forecast and the issuance of warnings. Now

(26:10):
you couple that with that. It's my understanding. I can't
prove this yet, but it's my understanding that in the
one particular campground, cell phones were not allowed, and some
cell phones were there was no cell service. So again, man,

(26:31):
this is taken away back to my Theena days. Did
the camp not have a portable battery operated radio because
they knew they were in a flash flood zone? They
knew it. So what happened here? The flood was caused
by the remnants of something called tropical storm Bury. It

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became embedded in a broad mid level trough over central Texas.
These remnant lows are as we've always seen, we even
see it here, are slow moving, they drop heavy rain
over a large geographical area, and where the Trumple sphere destabilizes,
that particular one stayed quasi stationary, caused massive flooding along

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the river. Something has happened many times before. The one
that I want to point to before I go into
the history is well, I heard on the radio this
morning and they made sure that they emphasized we're gonna
go interview Billy Bob. Billy Bob's lived in this area

(27:40):
for two decades. Golly, what's two decades twenty years? This
is twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty five minus two decades
minus twenty years takes us to walk two thousand and five.

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So he's sitting there, standing there talking. I didn't see it.
I'm listening to it on the radio. He's sitting here
talking about, all right, my gosh, I've lived here for
two decades and I've never seen anything like this. This
is the worst I've ever seen. Really, twenty years, twenty years,

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and this is the worst you've seen in nineteen eighty seven,
more than twenty years, but within our lifetimes. A flash
flood on the same river killed ten teenage campers from
the Pot of Gold Christian Camp, but another thirty three
swept away but did survive the camp. In particular, here,

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Camp Mystic is built on a floodplain. It is on
sediment that has been deposited by hundreds, if not thousands
of floods over the last millennia. The event has nothing
to do with climate change, and the tragedy has nothing
to do with dosee cuts. And if you're out there
exploiting this catastrophe because you just don't like Trump, or

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you don't like the cuts, or you don't like you're
just unhappy about everything, shut up and sit down. Just
shut up and sit down. Let's go back to the
Guadalupee River itself eighteen sixty eight. Now, a lot of
these I can't get very I can't give a lot

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of specifics simply because there wasn't There wasn't that extens
even record keeping. So in eighteen sixty eight, a wall
of water eight feet deep covered Seguine Fairgrounds, reaching halfway
up the one Seguin's burial site. There's no specific information
about monetary damage. The death toll is unknown. All those

(29:48):
specific fatalities were reported in some records. That's in eighteen
eighty eight, I'm sorry, eighteen sixty eight. Eighteen seventy two,
Guadalupe River basin including It's agreen, again significant flooding reported,
but again death toll is unknown. Although there are reported deaths,

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the toll excelt. That exact number is not known and
the damages are not specified. Nineteen oh six. Oh, now
we're in the nineteen hundreds. Guadalupe River Basing again. Major
flooding occurred. Detailed damage reports unavailable, The death toll unknown.
September nine through ten, nineteen twenty one, Guadalupe River Basing,

(30:32):
including sagein New Bronfels and San Antonio, a tropical storm
drunk nearly two feet of rain twenty four inches of
rain caused widespread flooding. It we in Sagine, fifty homes
were flooded, three thousand homes in New Bronfels suffered heavy damage.
Downtown San Antonio was inundated, significant property losses. The flood

(30:53):
was a catalyst for the Stage to start managing the
guadalupean other rivers. The death toll in twenty one probably
fair if we did it proportionally, this is probably as
significant as today's Twelve people drowned in New Bronfels. Twenty
five others so we got thirty seven were unaccounted for,

(31:16):
so you had significant loss of life, though the exact
numbers for the Guadalupe alone are unclear. Statewide, the nineteen
twenty one floods caused at least one hundred and seventy
seven deaths, pretty damn significant. June thirtieth through July two,

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almost the same period of time nineteen thirty two, Kerrville,
almost precisely the same area, thirty five inches of rain
fell in thirty six hours catastrophic flash flooding. The exact
monetary figures are not available, but I imagine the property
losses were very significant. At least sevenities were reported in

(32:01):
that one alone. And we haven't gotten to the nineteen
thirty six flood yet.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Michael, you're forgetting one motto that the Democrats in the
lefties favor, never let a tragedy go to waste.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
No, I know, I just I think this bothers me
because it shows because remember, people are consuming this information.
Not I mean, I know, people are consuming the information
I'm giving. I'm talking about what the Cabala is doing,
and they're consuming that, and they're all, you know, it's

(32:37):
like to you know, everybody wants to blame Trump for this.
Everybody wants to blame you know, dosee cuts. If you
listen to Saturday program, I went through the obqbe the
one big beautiful bill, and I think based on the
text line anyway, I think some people were shocked, and
some emails that I got, I think people were shocked.

(32:59):
You know. Yeah, no tax on tips. Yeah, that's maxed
out at twenty five thousand dollars and it ends in
twenty twenty eight. There's just a lot of stuff that people.
You know, the media just gives you what they want,
what fits their narrative, and they don't give you the details.

(33:20):
And what worries me is we have a nation of
information consumers that are just dumber than a box of rocks.
And so they'll they they think with their heart and
not with their brain, and I'm not sure their brain's
capable of thinking of doing any sort of critical analysis

(33:40):
or critical thinking. And all I all, I all I'm
trying to do is just give you some perspective that, yes,
this is a horrible tragedy, and these tragedies have occurred
since the Earth was created and will continue to occur
no matter how great we get at in terms of

(34:00):
mitigating against the environment and against mother nature unless we
just want to live in some you know, are we
going to figure out some way to live in the
in the dome. Build a big dome, and we're going
to live in some dome where it's just you know,
perfect California beach weather, you know, three hundred and sixty
five days a year. Well, think of the unintended consequences

(34:22):
of that. Where's the rain going to go? How do
we get the rain in, how do we get the
snow in? Where do we get our water? I mean,
it's just just insane. We live in a natural, physical world,
and bad things happen.