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As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods 90%
By Joe Wilkins84%
7/18/2026, 2:30:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Pessimism Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 78.7% saturation with 240 hits. Analysis detected 1,125 faulty-reasoning hits from 305 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 83.7% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,191 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.
Fresh off a month that saw all but five states mired in severe drought, the US is reeling from multiple crises of national proportions.
First, there's the record-breaking heat dome which is currently baking most of the continental US.
According to the Guardian, over 100 million Americans are currently living under extreme heat warnings, forecasted to persist well into the weekend.
At the same time, the country is being smoked out by dozens of wildfires across North America, a situation the heat wave isn't exactly helping.
On top of that, smoke from over 800 blazes in Canada is helping choke out the US Midwest and North-East, making the air hazardous to breathe.
Things aren't necessarily any prettier outside of the smoke-zone — just wetter.
Communities situated around the Guadalupe River in Texas are reeling after near endless rainfall triggered massive floods across the state for the second year in a row.
So far, at least one person is dead, while thousands have been forced to evacuate.
At least 57 counties representing over six million people were placed under flood watches over the past few days.
With even more rain on the horizon, it remains to be seen when Texas will get relief from the torrential downfalls.
Stepping back, it's clear this cascade of extremes isn't happening in a vacuum.
The overlapping wildfires, floods, and heat waves are all being amplified by the same climate forces: a rapidly warming planet, fueled in no small part by skyrocketing carbon emissions from the US itself.
All in all, it's been an action-packed summer as the El Niño cycle rolls on — and unfortunately, the devastation is far from over.
More on climate disaster: Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
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