Texas blame game

德克萨斯州归咎游戏

Today, Explained

2025-07-08

27 分钟

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Dozens of people were swept away by flash floods in Texas this weekend. The finger-pointing has already begun. This episode was produced by Denise Guerra and Peter Balanon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabrielle Berbey and Miles Bryan, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. A search and rescue worker looks through debris along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Good morning, everyone.

  • Good morning.

  • Good morning.

  • Relax, relax, relax.

  • In Texas,

  • officials are facing hard questions about why so many people were in the path of floods that inundated parts of Kerr County this weekend.

  • Y'all ready?

  • As of 8.30 this morning, we recovered 75 deceased bodies here in Kerr County,

  • including 48 adults and 27 children.

  • Many of the victims were children because that area is home to a bunch of summer camps.

  • Someone told me that when they were walking around campgrounds,

  • that they saw that Cabin 5, their wall had fallen over.

  • And my door flooded away.

  • What went so wrong here?

  • Did the weather alert system fail?

  • Did cuts to the National Weather Service leave critical jobs unstaffed?

  • We've got some answers coming up on Today Explained.

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