Dozens are dead not because such events are unpredictable, but because society is organized around the profit interests of the financial oligarchy, not human need.

Flash floods in Texas have killed at more than 80 people, many of them children.Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours Friday in the Texas Hill Country, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.

At least 78 people are dead and many more are missing in Texas in the wake of torrential rains and resulting flooding. By far the greatest number of fatalities occurred in Kerr County, where 68 people are believed to be dead,