Texas hit by tornado as severe flooding continues ^⁠99%

7/16/2026, 11:49:49 AM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 71.2% saturation with 220 hits. Analysis detected 1,103 faulty-reasoning hits from 309 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠99% (184 of 17,781 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 99.00% of the video peer group.

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309 words

This is a tornado.

>> Tonight, a terrifying scene as a tornado slams San Antonio.

>> Oh no.

>> Power flashes lighting up the sky.

Drivers frantic as it touches down near a packed highway.

>> Oh my god.

>> At the height of the morning commute.

>> Debris falling out of the sky.

Not rain.

>> Part of the roof of this apartment complex peeled right off.

Families living rooms and bedrooms now exposed to the sky.

>> So something flew over.

I'm like, whoa.

And the building started shaking everything.

The storm's torrential rain paralyzing a massive expanse of South and Central Texas, triggering multiple flash flood emergencies.

This truck spotted floating down a flooded road in Bernie.

>> There he goes.

>> NBC's San Antonio affiliate capturing this upsetting moment.

A group of deer appear to be carried away by the rushing waters.

>> We have deer struggling in the water.

>> Highways like this outside UVI have been overwhelmed by the rushing waters, leaving some communities trapped behind the flood waters.

The only way to access them is by the air where DPS has been rescuing people in helicopters.

>> Neighborhoods evacuating in Ualdi as the Leona River swells onto city streets.

>> What do you think when you look out at this flooding?

>> Uh what you see here is it's it's basically a disaster.

You know, it's it's an it's an area where you cannot come through.

As you can see behind us, how this water is very dangerous right now.

>> We caught up with residents like Blanca San Miguel as the waters closed in on their home >> because of the storm.

They told us that there was getting dangerous and they were getting probably uh 20 ft or 30 ft from here.

Confirmation Bias

6.8%

Anchoring Bias

Availability Heuristic

33%

Representativeness Heuristic

4.5%

Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence Bias

17.8%

Framing Effect

31.1%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

Pessimism Bias

6.5%

Negativity Bias

61.5%

Self-Serving Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

3.9%

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

4.2%

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

6.8%

Primacy Effect

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

5.8%

False Dilemma

9.1%

Slippery Slope

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

4.2%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

Appeal to Emotion

71.2%

Begging the Question

10%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

15.9%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

8.4%

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

4.2%

Anecdotal

24.3%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

22%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

Quote-first Misdirection

Biased Writer Voice

Indoctrination

5.8%

Politically Left Leaning Bias

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

309 words analyzed.

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Texas hit by tornado as severe flooding continues ^⁠99%