2025-09-03
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In the early hours of the Fourth of July,
torrential rain hit the hill country region in the U.S. state of Texas.
Central Texas is swamped by a summer's worth of rain in a matter of hours.
The Guadalupe River, which runs through the region, rose by 26 feet.
That's about the height of a two-story house.
It took everything in its path, even entire buildings.
So many people have been swept up into...
An extraordinary catastrophe.
More than 130 people were killed.
Some were children.
Little girls at a summer camp in Kerr County.
The last message they got was, we're being washed away, and the phone went dead.
Texas is no stranger to flash floods, but few have been as deadly as those on the 4th of July.
Soon, people started asking how it all came to be.
And on social media, a theory was quickly spreading.
It didn't rain for months in Texas.
Then they seeded clouds.
And two days later, the state was underwater.
The claim?