A couple of decades ago, it was extremely rare for the U.S. to be hit by a "billion dollar disaster", but over the past couple of years we have been averaging a "billion dollar disaster" about every two weeks.  The American people deserve the truth, because people are dying.

Most of the people that just died in Texas were caught totally by surprise by the floods.

The National Weather Service had warned that rain was coming, but a top Texas official is admitting that the actual amount of rain that ultimately fell "was never in any of those forecasts"…

"The original forecast that we received Wednesday from the National Weather Service predicted 3-6 inches of rain in the Concho Valley and 4-8 inches in the Hill Country," said Texas Emergency Management Chief W. Nim Kidd at a press conference Friday. "The amount of rain that fell at this specific location was never in any of those forecasts."

Sudden thunderstorms dumped more than 10 inches of rain on the area, causing heavy flooding from the Guadalupe River.

Dalton Rice, the city manager for Kerrville, Texas—who also spoke at the press conference—said that the catastrophic flash flooding happened because the skies "dumped more rain than what was forecasted" on two of the river's forks.

At one point, 7 inches of rain fell in a three hour period.

As USA Today has noted, 7 inches of rain is "nearly 122 million gallons of water per square mile"…

On July 4, rain was falling at 3-4 inches per hour, with some locations recording a deluge of up to 7 inches of rain in just three hours, the National Weather Service said. Seven inches of rain is nearly 122 million gallons of water per square mile. Over 7 square miles that's enough water to fill the AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.