Karmactive Staff
7:29 PM GMT – 11/07/2025
President Trump visited central Texas on Friday to survey the devastating flood damage that killed at least 121 people, calling it “a horrible thing” as he met with first responders and families affected by the disaster.
Accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, and senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, Trump toured areas along the Guadalupe River where floodwaters wiped out entire neighborhoods and the Camp Mystic summer camp.
The visit comes as Trump faces criticism over cuts to the National Weather Service and questions about his plans to phase out FEMA, though the White House has pushed back against linking the administration’s policies to the tragedy. Trump signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County on Sunday, unlocking federal funding for search and rescue operations and assistance to affected families.
1:38 PM GMT – 11/07/2025
Flash flooding in Ruidoso, New Mexico killed three people including a 4-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy when the Rio Ruidoso river reached a record-breaking 20 feet during Tuesday’s storm. Mayor Lynn Crawford initially questioned why outdoor warning sirens didn’t sound but later clarified the village keeps those sirens only for full town evacuations, not local flooding events.
Officials used multiple other alert systems including door-to-door warnings, phone notifications, and 65 water rescues as the deadly waters swept through burn scar areas from last year’s wildfires.
10:33 AM GMT – 11/07/2025
Texas floods have now killed 121 people, including 36 children, as rescue teams work around the clock searching for 166 people still missing across multiple counties. The disaster started on July 4th when the Guadalupe River shot up 26 feet in less than an hour, wiping out most of Camp Mystic and killing 27 campers and staff members there.
President Trump will visit the flood zone Friday as officials face tough questions about why no evacuation orders were given despite weather warnings, and why the area lacks warning sirens even though it’s known as one of the most dangerous flood zones in America.
8:48 AM GMT – 11/07/2025
Severe thunderstorms hit Iowa overnight with damaging winds reaching 74 mph at Des Moines International Airport, knocking out power to more than 16,000 customers across the metro area.
The National Weather Service issued flash flood watches for nearly 40 counties as storms dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain with some areas potentially seeing up to 5 inches. Emergency crews reported downed trees and damaged homes in eastern Guthrie County while the storms forced officials to reschedule multiple high school baseball games and cancel community events.
6:55 AM GMT – 11/07/2025
Heavy rains hit China’s Yunnan province hard, killing two people and forcing rescue teams to evacuate more than 7,200 residents to safer places. The flooding started when record-breaking rainfall of 255 millimeters fell in just one day, which is the heaviest rain the area has seen since they started keeping track in 1958. Three people are still missing while search teams continue looking for them, and the disaster destroyed two houses completely when landslides crashed into a village called Heilong.
3 AM GMT – 11/07/2025
Nagpur got hit hard by heavy rains that left more than 400 families dealing with flooded homes, forcing fire teams to answer 67 emergency calls across the city. The bigger problem is that three out of four roads in the city don’t have proper water drains, so when it rains hard, the water has nowhere to go except into people’s houses. What makes this worse is that nobody – not the city corporation, not the trust that builds roads, not even the highway department – actually knows which areas have working drainage and which don’t, making it impossible to fix the real problem.
