Karmactive Staff
6:54 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
Billions of gallons of floodwater from the devastating Texas Hill Country floods are now flowing downstream toward the Gulf of Mexico, with the Guadalupe River gauge near Bloomington in Victoria County expected to briefly reach minor flood stage early Thursday before receding.
While the river has fallen back within its banks in the hard-hit areas where over 100 people lost their lives, water follows gravity’s pull southward, prompting officials to monitor downstream impacts as the surge of water moves through the system.
Meteorologists and emergency management officials confirm that no other river gauges or sections along the Guadalupe are expected to experience flooding conditions for the remainder of the week, bringing a measure of relief to communities along the river’s path to Matagorda Bay.
6:13 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
The Baltimore-Washington region faces its third consecutive day of severe weather threats on Wednesday as a cold front brings dangerous conditions, including temperatures climbing to 92 degrees and heat index values soaring as high as 101.
Meteorologist Tony Pann warns that the “big boomers” will likely hit the Baltimore metro between 5-10 PM, while a Flood Watch remains in effect across DC, Maryland, and Virginia from 2 PM until midnight, with damaging winds and flash flooding posing the main threats to residents.
Emergency officials advise downloading weather apps with push alerts, monitoring NOAA Weather Radio, and avoiding downed power lines, as storm conditions could knock trees onto electrical infrastructure and create hazardous travel conditions throughout the evening.
5:31 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
Severe thunderstorms swept through the Philadelphia region Tuesday amid temperatures in the 90s, triggering multiple tornado warnings, Flash Flood Watches, and a Severe Thunderstorm Watch that remains in effect until 9 p.m. across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Damaging winds reaching 68 mph in Pottstown have knocked down trees and power lines across Chester, Berks, and Montgomery counties, while flash flooding has rendered several roadways impassable, prompting Flash Flood Warnings for portions of New Castle County and multiple counties in southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey.
AccuWeather meteorologist Tyler Roys warns the volatile weather pattern will continue with similar conditions expected Wednesday, noting that “you could get nothing, and one block over they get a half inch of rain” due to the random nature of these scattered storms.
4:45 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
Chicago’s West Side was hit by one of its heaviest rainfall events since September 2023 on Tuesday night, with a staggering 5.45 inches recorded near Garfield Park in just 90 minutes, while radar estimates showed up to 7 inches falling along the Eisenhower Expressway corridor.
The “training” thunderstorms—where heavy rain repeatedly moves over the same area like a train on tracks—prompted a Flash Flood Warning with emergency cell alerts at 10:06 p.m., leading to flooded underpasses, stranded vehicles, and water rescues across affected neighborhoods.
The severe weather’s highly localized nature was evident as O’Hare and Midway airports recorded just 0.05 inches during the same period, leaving many Chicago residents with flooded basements and damaged property, like James Hall and Jennifer Lauren who found “things floating away, carpets all ruined” in their Near West Side home.
4:11 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
Heavy rains across Jakarta and surrounding areas have triggered severe flooding, displacing nearly 10,000 people and damaging over 2,300 homes as water levels in some neighborhoods reached up to 1 meter high. Harmoko Hidayat, a 58-year-old Pancoran resident, described the exhausting task of cleaning thick mud from his home, noting “some of my belongings are buried in mud” after floodwaters inundated his property. The Jakarta Regional Disaster Management Agency has evacuated 371 residents from five sub-districts to designated shelters, while the Indonesian Meteorology Agency forecasts continued rainfall through Wednesday, extending their coastal flooding warning until July 13.
3:15 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
Assam’s floods claim 29 lives and in the second wave affects over 32,300 people across 169 villages in six districts. Around 19,500 residents impacted in Golaghat. The officials have established 46 relief camps, which currently contain over 3,500 flood-affected individuals.
2 PM GMT – 09/07/2025
Walmart pledges to give a $500,000 donation to Central Texas flood relief. Death toll due to floods rises over 100 in Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says deaths due to flood is more than Hurricane Harvey. To date, 109 have been declared dead in the flooding.
11:17 AM GMT – 09/07/2025
Camp Mystic’s strict no-phone policy and lack of walkie-talkies left counselors cut off from emergency alerts during the deadly flash flood, with communication devices available only to camp owners and select leaders. Counselor Caroline Cutrona missed crucial weather warnings because of the camp’s screen ban, highlighting a critical gap in the emergency response system that left staff unprepared. Despite this communication breakdown, counselors quickly formed a human chain in chest-deep rapids to guide terrified campers to safety, with one grateful mother praising them as “heroes” for saving her children’s lives.
11 AM GMT – 09/07/2025
Following devastating floods in central Texas that killed over 100 people and left 161 missing, HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced a 90-day freeze on foreclosures for more than 900 FHA-backed mortgages in Kerr County. The moratorium, effective immediately after President Trump’s disaster declaration, prevents mortgage servicers from initiating or completing foreclosure actions while authorities assess damage to properties in the hard-hit region. HUD pledged continued support for the Texas Hill Country community as recovery efforts continue in what has become one of the deadliest floods in Texas history.
10:15 AM GMT – 09/07/2025
Search efforts in flood-ravaged Kerr County have found no survivors since Friday, as crews methodically comb through debris along the Guadalupe River where 161 people remain missing. Kerrville Police Sergeant Jonathan Lamb expressed diminishing optimism as days pass without rescues, though he emphasized their unwavering mission to “reunite families with their missing loved ones and bring them closure.” The disaster’s full toll remains unclear, with Lamb noting many visitors in RVs may be missing but unreported because “if nobody reports them missing, if nobody is looking for them, we may not know they’re missing.”
9:30 AM GMT – 09/07/2025
A man in his 40s and two children, ages 4 and 7, were killed when record-breaking flash floods swept through Ruidoso, New Mexico on Tuesday, with the Rio Ruidoso reaching an unprecedented 20 feet—five feet higher than the previous record. Mayor Lynn Crawford expressed that “our hearts are broken for the families who have lost their loved ones in this terrible tragedy” as emergency crews performed more than 50 swift-water rescues across the village. The catastrophic flooding was intensified by last year’s South Fork and Salt wildfires, which left burn scars that created unstable soil conditions and led to rapid water rise when heavy monsoonal rains fell on Tuesday afternoon.
