Vermont floods occasionally, but until recently, when politics and money were at stake, no one blamed it on your trying to live a comfortable, affordable life. These days, that comfort is to blame for something that has been happening since long before peasants could find much, if any, comfort.
Flooding happens, and people build stuff where it floods. Look at that view of the river. Famous last words. And I’m not minimizing the tragedy, but if you live in an area prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or wildfires, guess what?
The Guadalupe Valley in Texas floods. This isn’t the first or the last. It is also in the Hurricane zone, so heavy rain is not rare or unusual. But as with living near fault lines or in tornado alley or hot spots for hurricane landfills, we’re just temps on a thing that’s been here billions of years, and the idea that we cause any of that is narcissistic and a bit psychopathic. It is the project of secular humanists who think they can be gods and grifters, claiming they are if you give them enough of someone else’s money.
Back in the real world, we accept the choice to live in these places (deserts, for example, are more prone to drought than not), and look for ways to warn people about risks and threats. In the past century, deaths and injuries from these events have decreased significantly. People still die. People still choose to live in these places. However, identifying the signs and issuing warnings has reduced the casualties.
And in a free country, people can choose to minimize the risk in their minds or ignore it completely.
That’s part of what happened in Texas this week. The National Weather Service did its job.
They call it Flash Flood alley?
So, what about the climate cultists?
If extreme heat was causing it, and it’s not, wouldn’t we need more extreme heat?
If climate has anything at all to do with increased river flooding, as the chicken-little media and political opportunists claim, why is there no historical evidence of this?
River Flooding Frequency in the US
Note: this data needs to be updated through 2025, but the climate cult has been on their high horse for decades about this, and this data shows no evidence that fossil fuels or CO2 are affecting flooding.
And if NOAA’s weather service is to blame because of DOGE cuts and defunding, how did they do their job as noted above, and where are these cuts of which the lunatic left speaks?
The White House budget proposal for FY 2026 actually increases funding to NWS by $91.5 million.
There was a breakdown, no doubt, and the lives lost, especially the kids in the camp, were avoidable. The risk was well reported, warnings were issued, alerts were announced, but the evacuation, the thing they had twelve hours to accomplish, didn’t happen. That may be due to past requests being ignored where no flood occurred.
The Weather Service that cried wolf? That’s not really a thing. But they do get the weather wrong a lot, and their job is to predict likelihoods, and no one is obligated to listen or care. However, the remnants of a tropical storm moved into an area known historically for heavy rainfall and flash floods. Perhaps not quite like this one, but floods like these happen, and people forget, and that’s not your fault either.
And let’s not forget who politicized the weather, wasting hundreds of billions on an idea that’s not real, and whose solution couldn’t solve it if it were.
