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Rescues underway as deadly 'wave of water' inundates Texas Hill Country 86%

7/16/2026, 5:45:14 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Anecdotal, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 62.4% saturation with 171 hits. Analysis detected 1,017 faulty-reasoning hits from 274 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.3% and a BS Rank of 86% (3,260 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 85.10% of the video peer group.

emergency you mentioned in Texas. A 
deadly wave of water forcing evacuations there. Families pulled from their homes. 
Water rescues taking place around the clock. ABC's Faith Abubet in Texas tonight. 
Deadly walls of water inundating Texas Hill Country. Families rescued from addicts in the dead of the night. 
Flood sirens sounding outside San Antonio. 
The National Weather Service alerting the public that the large and deadly flood wave was rising fast on the Guadalupe River. 
Search and rescue teams in Kurville navigating chest deep water and cars in trees, pulling families out of windows and into boats. 
Richard Shelton's 11-year-old daughter, Ava, woke him up at 2:00 a.m. 
>> The door broke open and more water came rushing in. 
And so, we went to the attic. 
The water got all the way up uh to within a foot of the attic. 
I was scared the house was going to break apart and and I didn't know what would happen after that. 
>> Receding flood waters revealing utter devastation. 
And in this Kurville neighborhood, the power of the flood waters is just undeniable. 
It rammed this SUV up the tree and another car into the house. 
Not far from there, this RV park hit hard, but thankfully everyone evacuated before the flood. 
And Mary, authorities say the level of flooding that they're seeing this time around is even worse than those deadly floods that devastated camps here last year. 
This time though, they were prepared and so far those campers are safe. 
>> and we are so thankful for that, Faith. 
Thank you. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 4.7%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias4.7%This article: 2.2%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias2.2%This article: 27.4%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic27.4%This article: 10.6%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic10.6%This article: 9.9%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias9.9%This article: 18.2%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias18.2%This article: 8.8%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect8.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 10.6%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias10.6%This article: 7.3%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias7.3%This article: 62.4%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias62.4%This article: 5.8%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias5.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 3.3%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect3.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 22.3%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority22.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 15.7%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization15.7%This article: 2.2%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring2.2%This article: 9.5%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon9.5%This article: 44.9%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion44.9%This article: 5.1%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question5.1%This article: 4.7%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)4.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 29.2%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal29.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 12.0%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)12.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 7.3%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection7.3%This article: 29.6%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice29.6%This article: 17.5%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination17.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

274 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers17%attributed speech227writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageRichard Shelton • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageMary • 27 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageFaith • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Mary

100%flagged-word coverage
27 attributed words57% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+90.7 ptsWriter: 9.3%Mary: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-35.7 ptsWriter: 35.7%Mary: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-4.8 ptsWriter: 4.8%Mary: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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