They Knew This Valley Would Flood. They Still Did Nothing. That’s Not Incompetence—That’s Greed.
Don’t Let Them Spit in Your Face and Call It Rain: The Flood Story They’ll Never Tell You! The Flood Wasn’t a Freak Event. It Was Predictable. And They Let It Happen Anyway.
You ever hear a public official say something so mind-bendingly stupid that you have to replay it just to make sure you didn’t imagine it?
Here’s one for the scrapbook:
“This is the most dangerous river valley in the United States... We do not have a warning system.”
That was Judge Rob Kelly in Kerr County, Texas. July 4th, 2025. Independence Day. Because nothing screams freedom like confessing your entire region is a watery death trap with all the preparedness of a soggy sandwich.
And before you start blaming “unforeseen circumstances,” let’s rewind the tape.
In 1940, a pair of researchers, Hoyt and Langbein, put this exact spot on the map as a bullseye for flash floods. Long before that, Texas already held the record for some of the deadliest flood disasters in American history.
Generations of drowned families. Camps full of kids swept away in the dark.
And still. No warning system. No sirens. No text alerts. Just a whole lot of finger-pointing and press releases after the fact.
And here’s where it gets real cute.
Both sides have climbed onto their soapboxes to shriek at each other.
One side squawks climate change! like it’s the magical password that absolves them of any responsibility.
The other side yells hoax! while quietly slashing the budgets that were supposed to keep people alive.
Yoda would take one squinty look at this circus and mutter,
“Strong the stupid is, yes. Thick as swamp fog it has become.”
Because here’s the boring, grown-up truth that nobody wants to say out loud:
This valley has been flooding for a Thousand damn years.
This isn’t new.
This isn’t mysterious.
This isn’t some cosmic riddle only Greta Thunberg and the Koch brothers can decode together.
It’s simple.
If you build homes and camps in a known death trap, and you refuse to spend a nickel on planning or preparedness, eventually Mother Nature will collect her bill in bodies.
Yet here we are again.
Politicians in starched suits, blaming each other, blaming the weather, blaming anything that doesn’t have a vote.
They’ll look you straight in the eye and say this was an “act of God.” A “freak event.”
No, it wasn’t.
It was an act of negligence.
Of greed.
Of lying liars who lie because it’s easier than doing their damn jobs.
And while we’re naming names, let’s talk about Don.
Oh, Don. Doesn’t believe in climate change. Doesn’t believe in FEMA. Doesn’t believe in investing in a functional emergency response system.
But I bet he believes in campaign donations from developers who want to keep paving over floodplains.
And you know what’s coming next.
Nothing.
Nothing but more speeches, more excuses, and more bovine feces piled higher than the water ever reached.
So here’s your reminder, America:
When the water comes again, and it will, don’t let them tell you it was some cosmic accident.
Don’t let them spit in your face and call it rain.
Because the truth is simple.
Lying liars lie.
And this time, their lies killed people.
Tell me I’m wrong.