'After the Flood' podcast: Fifth episode reviews Kerr County's readiness one year after deadly July 4 flood 35%
By Sarah Grunau29% Dominic Anthony Walsh41% The Texas Newsroom52%
7/31/2026, 3:27:34 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Pessimism Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 16.5% saturation with 48 hits. Analysis detected 248 faulty-reasoning hits from 291 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.7% and a BS Rank of 35% (16,450 of 25,279 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 65.10% of the article peer group.
One year after a deadly water wall approached the tiny town of Ingram, Texas and left a trail of devastation in its path, Stuart Gross found himself in an unthinkable position.
The local code enforcement officer who called this Hill Country town his home for 40 years watched the Guadalupe River rise once again — this time causing more destruction than in 2025, he said.
After more than 30 people died at a local RV park in Ingram last year, Gross endeavored to keep people out of the floodway.
The effort to direct where people choose to live would prove to be a difficult undertaking.
And a few weeks ago, Gross found himself with deja vu — evacuating local RV park residents from harm's way again.
“Not again,” Gross said.
“You know, not again.
I'm beating my head against the wall.
Here we are again.
Year two, we're evacuating people, you know?”
The fifth and final episode of the “After the Flood” podcast, released on Friday, examines whether the community was better prepared this time around.
It's the fifth and final installment of the “After the Flood” series, hosted by Houston Public Media's Sarah Grunau and Dominic Anthony Walsh.
The episode was written by Grunau, Walsh and The Texas Newsroom's Neena Satija and Lucio Vasquez.
“After the Flood” is a collaboration of The Texas Newsroom and PBS’s Frontline.
The five-part podcast series is an intimate and deeply reported look at the catastrophic Central Texas flooding that killed more than 130 people over the Fourth of July weekend in 2025.
State officials have confirmed three deaths as a result of the flooding earlier this month.
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