At least two dead as life-threatening flash floods and storms hit central Texas ⁠34%

By Coral Murphy Marcos⁠50%

7/16/2026, 8:12:55 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 37.3% saturation with 167 hits. Analysis detected 964 faulty-reasoning hits from 448 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42% and a BS Rank of ⁠34% (14,534 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 66.40% of the article peer group.

At least two people have died as “life-threatening” flooding takes hold in south-central Texas, where up to 28in of rain has already fallen in some areas – just a year after the same region endured catastrophic flooding that killed more than 100 people. 
Flash-flood emergencies were issued on Thursday for parts of Kerr and Uvalde counties, where emergency crews performed water rescues, and areas around the Guadalupe River and the Pedernales River, according to morning updates from the National Weather Service (NWS). 
Rescuers have been plucking stranded drivers and people trapped in homes since flood waters began rising quickly overnight on Thursday. 
“This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. 
SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!” 
reads an update from the NWS in San Antonio. 
“Life threatening flash flooding of low water crossings, small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.” 
Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, said in a Thursday press conference that at least two people have died as a result of the flooding: a man who was swept away in an RV near Comfort, and a woman swept away while driving in Uvalde. 
Abbott said more than 200 people had been rescued, including people trapped in their homes and stranded on flooded roads. 
Drones and helicopters are flying over the region still recovering from devastating floods just a year ago, the governor said. 
In summer camps near the Guadalupe River in Kerr county, the sheriff’s office said all campers were safe. 
Flash flood warnings were also in effect for parts of Kinney, Maverick and Zavala counties, among others close to the border with Mexico and in the Texas Hill Country near San Antonio. 
A line of storms moving through the region has brought heavy rainfall, causing the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, to rise more than 30ft in a few hours overnight on Thursday. 
Shelter-in-place orders have been issued for residents in Kerrville and Uvalde, and a broader flood watch remains in effect until Thursday evening. 
Officials told the Associated Press that people in Travis county were mostly trapped in trees and on rooftops, while residents in Uvalde were trapped in vehicles overnight. 
The catastrophic weather comes just a year after devastating floods during the Fourth of July weekend in the Texas Hill Country killed more than 100 people, including 25 girls and two counselors at Camp Mystic. 
The Christian girls’ summer camp was located on the banks of the Guadalupe River, where a flash flood emergency was once again in effect on Thursday. 
“Our primary focus right now and throughout the remainder of this torrential rain is saving lives,” Abbott said in a Wednesday statement. 
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448 words analyzed.

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