The research teams are still plowing the banks of the river charges of mud and debris and flying over the apocalyptic landscape affected by floods: here in Texas We don’t stop looking for dozens of people dispersed in this (predictable) disaster which caused at least 78 ascertained victims.
Most of the victims of the floods last Friday concentrated in the city of Kerrvilleon the Hill Country river. In these parts, the river Guadalupetransformed by torrential downpour before dawn into an impetuous and deadly torrent in less than an hour, it flows directly through the town of Kerrville.
The worst is that among them, among the victims, there are dozens of girls.
AS A A Texan & Father, My Heart is Breaking Tonight.
May God’s Grace Embrace These Innocent Angels & Their Families Tonight & In The Coming Days.
I Can’t Express the Depth of My Pain & Sorrow Watching On & Can’t Imagine What These Families Are feeling. pic.twitter.com/nhdjvnu04i– John Basham (@johnbasham) July 5, 2025
Texas, disaster announced: the price of Trumpian climatic denialism
Texas, Second producer of oil and gas of the United Stateshas become the symbol of an ideology that pretends to be profit to survival. Under the influence of Donald Trump and the guide of the Republican governor Greg Abbottthe state has transformed the Climate denial in a real political pillar. Any attempt to reduce emissions or strengthen energy infrastructures has been branded as a threat to economic freedom.
Since he restored to the White House, Trump has nothing more than accelerating the dismantling of federal environmental protectionseliminating pollution regulations, promoting the extraction of fossil fuels without brakes and cutting funds to climatic and scientific programs. In Texas, this approach has translated into, a systematic deregulation and a true boycott of renewable energies. The result? An old, unstable infrastructure unable to face extreme events.
In 2024, when Hurricane Beryl hit Houstonleaving millions of people without electricity, the failure of this policy exploded under everyone’s eyes. Breastfeated neighborhoods, destroyed houses, mass blackout: the price of the retry imposed in the name of ideology. But even after catastrophes like this, the Texan leaders continue to refuse basic reforms such as the modernization of the electricity grid or a serious climatic plan. Their line remains the same: “First the money, then the people“.
This short -sighted philosophy – direct legacy of the Trump agenda – shows its most cynical face today. Climate change does not look at anyone in the faceand Texas, like the whole of Trumpian America, finds himself paying the consequences of choices made to please fossil lobbies.
The cut to the weather service: another gift from Trumpist ideology
But the Texan disaster is not only the son of the deregulation energy. The last one thought about worsening the situation Wave of cuts promoted by Elon Muskwith the full support of the Trump Administration. In recent months, the “Spending review“Set from the tycoon also hit the federal weather alert system: massive layoffs hit crucial agencies such as the National Weather Service and the Noaajust as the climatic crisis requires rapid and scientifically founded answers.
The result? Late notices, dramatic underestimations and human lives lost because of a weakened system. The judge of Kerr’s county, Ron Kelly said it clearly:
We didn’t know that this flood would arrive.
The News’ forecasts had estimated a maximum of 15 cm of rain, while Hurricane Beryl poured well upper volumes, taking the head of the emergency management of Texas, W. Nim Kidd.
Yet, the Scientists had warned the White House: Without resources and staff, the pre-alert system would have become ineffective, endangering millions of Americans. But, once again, politics preferred to listen to the ideology of the easy cut rather than the voice of science.
