The Texas Drought of 2022 

This is sad😔 I was born and raised in Chicago and I always dreamed of living in Texas. Been here for over 13 years and I thought 2011 was a fluke...but this is the new normal. I really don't wanna leave...I don't see myself living in any other state 😒

@@Jedidyah777 1hurricane will completely reverse the sitation

@@huckstirred7112 I just told a friend of mine that yesterday...I don't wish devastation on anyone but a hurricane will do the job

@@huckstirred7112 yes and no. Have you ever bought a bag of potting soil, get home and start trying to get your plants going but the soil almost repels the water? It takes some soaking time or a little dab of dish soap in the water before the dirt will take in the water. Here, in the Hill Country, the dirt is powdery for at least 12 inches. That's just when I quit digging. With a hurricane, you can get anywhere from a half to six inches of rain an hour. Sounds terrific but it's not. The water doesn't have time to soak in. Because of the terrain the water starts to flow pretty quickly. The driest soil tends to float so you get tremendous erosion. Flash flooding washes away part of the top soil, the water that does manage to soak in isn't very much. It doesn't take but a half dozen cactus, three or four days of temperatures over one hundred and you are back to square one minus some soil. There is a temporary relief for wildlife but until the actual weather pattern changes and we get some weeks of slow, steady rain, this will continue. There are parts of Texas where the terrain is vastly different and heavy rain effects those parts differently. You can find terrain like almost any other state somewhere in Texas. I did say almost any state. I've only lived in Texas for 62 years so I haven't seen everything. Going by what I have seen, our only hope until winter is hard on us is to hope that when the geese start flying south, maybe they will be good enough to pee as they fly over.

@@AVToth sir you are correct .The right media did a video might have been 2 years ago on what he called the grand solar minimum .He said that this weather pattern we are in is going to be around for a decade .He talked about how many farms will not survive .I told him he was full of shit .But everything he predicted has come true .Spring to wet to get crops in ,when the crops are put in it will get roasting hot and no rain .and early frost . yea I am worried to my friend

!980 was bad up in the Ozark foothills. We had 25 pair on 360 acres. No grass or vegitation as high as a cow could reach. Every day I cut cull trees. The cattle ate ebery leaf and the smaller twigs. When they heard the chainsaw start up they came a running. We bailed rice stubble behind the combine for winter hay. They irrigate rice and thats all that grew.

I am with you , after 63 years as a native Texan this is different just a few minutes outside and any exposed skin is burning the UV Rays are greatly enhanced , no matter how much I water my garden the plants wilt everyday from the intense UV rays beating down on them and here 30 miles from the Gulf the pecan trees are brown all the way to the ground in a normal summer just a little at the top turn brown !

Might be evidence of a coming Pole Shift, might not 🤷‍♂️

It's called climate change.

Worst drought I have ever experienced! I went to sell cattle in Cleburne and had to wait in line over in hour.

It’s crazy God and Mother Nature gave us so much rain last year our yard and pasture was a lake, alligators coming into yards it was so wet. Now drier than a popcorn fart. I remember 2011 it was bad.

If development had been controlled there would be drought but it wouldn't be this bad. The springs from the aquifer used to keep at least some water running but those springs are long gone.

Don't worry 7 billion people couldn't possibly affect the planet so let's do nothing to fight climate change!

Climate change deniers know they can't try to tell us that nothing is happening since we can all see the lakes drying up and mass wildfires with our own eyes... so now you guys changed your talking point to call it a "drought." I see what you guys did there. Denying climate change is a not so subtle way of telling us you support fossil fuel industries.

@@user-uy3eq5hg1s here's my personal feeling about this. There is a huge difference between climate change and the cult of climate change. Of course the climate is changing. Some is natural but some is truly man made. Anyone who remembers the massive pollution problem we had in the 60's and 70's can easily understand that chemicals don't evaporate into nothing. Everyone can agree that a cleaner world benefits everyone. The problem is the climate change idea has morphed into a cult like religion. People tend to only think about the cult members and the looney ideas they are willing to accept as truth but not pay attention to the leaders, the ones who established the cult. While these leaders demonstrate all the behaviors of the true believer, the cult was established for some personal gain by it's founder. May be power or money, but the leader is getting more out than members. When Quail started with ethanol and forced the military to convert ships andt vehicles to use ethanol, billions of dollars was wasted. When it came out that his fuel actually increased the problem it was supposed to cure as well as cause a massive chain of collateral damage along the way, it was not spoken of. The research was most likely showing this outcome but the pressure for rapid implementation overcame the best interests of the planet. Or maybe because there was so much money riding on the rapid turn over from petroleum made the outcome inconsequential. OR, all of the above. Climate change has become less actual scientific study and planning and more religion. The congregation doesn't care about whether or not the ideas are sound, whether or not the cure is worse than the treatment. Their leaders, who are becoming grossly wealthy, have given them a bible of sorts. The old testament part of this bible is the green new deal. The worshippers don't concider whether or not the information is true. Not having absolute faith brands one a heretic. As being burned at the stake is against the law, for now, the heretic has their life destroyed. Who are the modern grand inquisitors? The far left elected officials appear to be but they receive orders from those who enjoy a lovely gathering of like minds in Switzerland. The faithful, in this cult of kumbaya and organic free range brain cell apoptosis, don't consider that if the US was carbon neutral by six a.m. tomorrow it wouldn't make one carbon farm's difference. They talk about how it would set an example the rest of the world would follow. I don't know how much kool aid they have already consumed but how arrogant is it to assume the entire planet wants to be just like us? This cult has an awful lot in common with 7th grade. The faithful just can't conceive that countries like Russia, China, North Korea aren't trying as hard as they are to ensure a bright and happy planet for future generations. The citizens may want that but the governments don't give a fiddler's fart about any generation but the one they are in. They don't care if the coal plants they are firing up has fast as they can flip the switch choke the planet to death within the next forty years nor do they care if every single coal miner, their wives, children and pets die of black lung! They care about money and who they may get to kill to get more. Period. Are we supposed to just allow this country to become so corrupt and weak that another country, probably China, can just come take over? What amazes me almost most of all is the true believers in this cult are so desperate to do anything it takes to promote this idea of a new and improved type of Democratic Socialism that they have become blind to human nature. The very human nature that has prevented any type of perfection in each according to his needs, perfect equity, perfect and unending harmony is the very same human nature that has indoctrinated these very same believers/cult members/hypocrites. The leaders are simply playing the long con. The true believers probably should've had their butts whipped a couple of times and gone home from the tournament with nothing, a loser. The Church of the Permanent 7th Grader, if nothing else, has taught this lesson; If everyone wins, we all will end up loosing. What does this have to do with climate change? When the Church of the Permanent 7th Grader saw that in real life, some people loose they became terrified. They lost the ability to think with any kind of logic. The biggest part of the climate change hysteria is just like 7th grade, you're either cool, wanna be cool or the cool are punishing you because they can. Climate change should be addressed in it's order of importance, but how then can the congregation stay cool? The long con.

That speaks volumes

Huh?

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Yeah I moved here recently for school. It's insane how little water there is and the drought compounded with inflation means finding fruits and veggies in the grocery store is almost impossible. I'm thankful it isn't as bad as in Nuevo León.

Some relief is coming.

We've seen a number of crepe myrtles being grown in Indianapolis and places south (Mooresville, Gosport, Spencer, Bloomington and especially around Jasper and Evansville) -- places you would not expect crepe myrtles to grow. Now, I realize that some of these are types which have been developed specifically to live in more northern climates, but some of these crepe myrtles are 10 to 15 feet tall, especially in southern Indiana. Most winters up here in Indy are wet with highs in the 30s to low 40s. A heavy snow happens maybe once a winter, and it melts within two to three days. I think it's been five years since we've seen a below zero temperature. We're also having a drought: most places have had half (or less) of their normal rainfall since April. I have never seen the corn crop so stunted.

Weather modification do some research this is all being done on purpose these are 21st-century weapons!!!!

The locust are coming.

@@nenamart5272 I have seen the Enemy, and it is Us.

This summer is so much hotter than 2011. San Antonio is only 7 days from tying the number of 100+ days recorded in 2011 with one day of July, all of August, and then September left too. And 9 days from tying the alltime record set in 2009.

Been here for 60, it's a dry, hot country, get used to it.

Been in Texas 67 years, seen this many times!

@@redarmysoja 44 years in Texas here!! I have a saying "Being from Texas if we go to hell when we die we will already be used to the heat!"LOL!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Texas has 2 seasons, hot or cold

@@redarmysoja 62 years. This is uncomfortable, certainly. However, you'll know it's a real Texas drought when families are sharing bath water. No joke. Seen it before, I'll see it again. People truly don't understand how precious water is. When you live through a "If it's yellow" year or two, you develope a whole new perspective on the value of things.

There has been some damage to Houston, but we are still faring better than other Texas cities. Our water usage has not been restricted yet.

The locust are coming and you better be ready. With them come the the other insects from central and southamerica.

Right-wing talking points have changed from completely denying climate change to calling it a "drought." As if the pollution from 7 billion people doesn't affect the planet.

Austinite born and raised here. I've never seen the lakes here in central Texas so low it's scary.

@@LowMS3 it is

Scary part is the last three or four years we've had huge amounts of rain what led up to 2011 was 3 or 4 years of drought and then a mega drop this is all happened because of the heat and no rain all in one year

@@zolowzurkon2533 it is scary. No relief in sight.

You say this when major droughts are getting way worse every time they happen. The sun is literally dissipating water, it's not a normal cycle coper.

@@secretagentcat it is normal because cycles are ever-changing. Climate will forever be changing with or without humans.

La niña.....again

@@secretagentcat Does the sun make water vanish?

@@roblamastus The sun evaporates water. Are you this uneducated?

Yeah, there was a drought but it was also caused by overfarming.

@@bobbyhall7472 that method of farming was in direct response to record heat and drought

@@Serf_dumb its how 90% of the country farms right NOW

Looks like we are heading that way, dust bowl 2 the wrath of climate change 😁

Climate change fueling this is man made.

Do you think it's possible that the pollution of 7 billion humans might negatively impact the planet?

@@user-uy3eq5hg1s no

@@user-uy3eq5hg1s nope. I don't. I read the Bible. Not science fiction

Howdy friends. Oakmont Park, lake Belton here. Raised on the Pedernales of lake Travis .. May The Spirit of Peace be with you... Lol, I'm old enough to remember the 80's, came home on leave, and cried at the sight of Travis.... Ya know, I've come to ask that my cup of faith be filled, and my steps be guided... Big hugs. Proverbs 27:17 Would like to hear from y'all dean

thats a sad true ,

solar wind connections from cme coronal mass ejections...cern keeps opening portals that are blowing holes in the protective barriers

every year is triple digit temperatures in texas lmao and this is a cooler summer than normal, 111 was the hottest this year, 119 two years ago, 126 15 years ago. It's a la nina year, el nino is around the corner + plenty of rain ... God people are dumb

@@JeremyRobertWalker Much of Texas is a desert, so you have to water your trees, regardless of the temperature.

@@williamcooper2415 my mesquite tree gets it's own water

Here in Southern California, some Pine trees that were planted back in the 1980s that used to flourish are dying out. Granted, there's lots of beautiful drought tolerant trees to pick from, but it's still telling.

First they told us that climate change is a hoax... now that we are all seeing the lakes dry up and mass wildfires with our own eyes they know that they can't say nothing is happening anymore so climate change deniers all decided to change their talking point to call it a "drought" as if pollution from 7 billion humans and billions of running cars couldn't affect the climate. Climate change deniers are truly shameless and are clearly motivated by money from fossil fuels.

Texas underground is like Swiss cheese, I'm sure you know this. When I was a kid, 62 years ago, you could stand in most creek beds and feel the springs bubbling up between your toes. You could wander around the hills in the hill Country and see little seeps or small springs just oozing water. Texas gets hot and there have always been mini droughts somewhere, every summer. Until Texas became infected with progress. At least that's what it was called. Cramming 600 houses on a less than 150 acres isn't progress. That's what has been happening across my part of Texas that is the Edwards Aquifer and recharge zone. I remember all the arguments on the news about the state and county authorities wanting to put very strict limits, almost exclusion for any building or development over the recharge zone. Money won. The trees and some plants used to be able to withstand fairly long periods of drought because their roots could go down far enough to find water trapped there or some underground spring or seepage. Now that progress has been sucking water out of the ground at a furious pace for almost 3 decades, the water tables have dropped or just outright disappeared. And the reasons for such ridiculous water usage, just by looking at the things people moving here can't live without can tell exactly why things are now having a hard time hanging on. 1. If you count up all the new homes built in San Antonio and surrounding counties who's suburbs make-up San Antonio in the last 10-15 years. Each one has at least 2 toilets, even if only 3 people live there. How many 3 bedroom homes have 2 bathrooms plus half bath? People now days can not even imagine living in a house without a master bath. Why? Status, guests don't see your bathroom cause it might be messy, some idea that sharing a bathroom is an unacceptable loss of privacy. These extra bathrooms are concidered progress. How many million gallons of water, water that could be used for drinking and that could be still underground and able to support life, how many millions of gallons of water are trapped in toilet tanks that aren't actually necessary? If these are cleaned weekly, how many gallons get flushed just to clean the toilet that wasn't anything more than status symbol? 2. Car wash. There may be places where water is plentiful but not Texas. How many people wash their vehicle weekly? Why? To look pretty. 3. Lawn maintenance. If you are to busy to take care or pay someone to take care of your yard then you don't need a yard. Moving a hose is so time consuming blah blah. Texas, contrary to the brochure, isn't designed for large green lawns. The old folks used to talk about "sweeping" the yard. There wasn't any lawn and they wanted to keep the trashy weeds, tree twigs etc cleaned upp. Texas isn't suffering any great climate change, there's just to many people sucking out the aquifers and who moved here without a clear knowledge of the weather patterns. The seasons are rarely the same for more than a year or two in a row. They can vary drastically from year to year.

well if you look on the world map dallas is on the same latitude as the sahara desert lol

actually there is, maybe not for those trees but for our feature. We can educate ourselves on climate change and push for sustainable and renewable resources.

@@joseguzman5875 Good luck in Texas. San Antonio has had its six worst summers all since 1998 but no one wants to believe global warming is real out here.

@@homerthompson416 true, as a Texan, it sucks, most people here don’t believe in climate change, and when they do, they say that is part of economic development and nothing we can do about it😔

Let's do all of the above now!

Love this comment - excellent idea, thank you!

I put compost/sand mixture all over my lawn. My city takes in food waste and lawn waste and composts it. Then they deliver by truck. I also use a rachio sprinkler controller for cycle and soak. Helps a lot

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Some places on the Blanco river are drying up too.

It’s gonna take a hurricane or big tropical storm to break it.

@@Hotrodford I've thought that, too. I read that the Gulf is much warmer than normal. I can't help but thinking all that heat building up is brewing a big storm down the road.

I haven't heard the coyotes in months

@@oldgamerchick me either nor have I seen them. White tail deer I’ve seen and I’m feeding them and any other animal. Raccoons, possums are coming up to eat my cats food too and drink water. I leave fresh water for all the animals as the stock tanks are all dried up. Even the prickly pear cactus is shriveling, all of the grass and weeds are dead. It’s the perfect fuel for wildfires. The bad thing about this drought and hot weather is that it increases the outbreak of rabies.

@@oldgamerchick I forgot to mention that one time a few years ago I found my 25 year old nephew passed out outside from heat exhaustion I don’t know how long he was laying out there nor does he. I just happened to walk outside from the house and i saw what appeared as a body on the ground. He woke up in a stumbling daze. I immediately got him inside put him in front of an air conditioner and gave him cool water and a cool shower to lower his temperature. Heat is not something to play with.

it's either a la nina year or an el nino year, not rocket science, and raking the forest, something which has been done for thousands of years, is an effective mitigation against forest fire

@@JeremyRobertWalker I hope this is sarcasm.

@@Tsudkyk It's Science. Go educate your self.

nope the elites took all the water, setiously gow 1 year ago we were out of a drought now its gone even more just overnight?? weird

@@JeremyRobertWalker I have 153 acres of bluff line and copperheads that is due a good raking If you want the job? I was going to just do a controlled burn on it but I’m sure you could rake it for me for cheaper. Are you just raking these leaves back a few feet and then raking more in their place or are you going to bag them up for me? I would bring a couple hundred thousand trash bags if so.

Noticing it in California and n Colorado since I travel a lot for work

I'm pretty sure Fredericksburg has a raindome because while everybody else including us got inches of rain they got nothing every time a storm comes near there it splits or only hits the north side of the town we only got .76 inches of rain in July but for just how dry it's been lately the fact that we were able to pick up that much in July us crazy the entire Hill Country picked up half an inch up to 3 inches of rain in July yet east of 281 got nothing almost other than traces of a little rain and everyone really appreciated that one day of a lot of rain as we didn't get any rain in July after that and we probably won't get much in August if any rain at all

@@ColdSprite New Mexico is getting drenched every every every every every every every every every every every every day with rain seriously it's crazy

I’m in the DFW area and the watermelons sold here have all been a miss…unsweet and whitish light pink on the inside…once cut they go bad w/in a day! Peaches and nectarines never ripen. Usually a cut watermelon can last up to three days with firm meat inside. Dirt up this way is dust…I know here we have burn bans; water restrictions and no charcoal grilling. It sucks.

Geo engineering causes it

I feel ya. For me its the people, like Joe Rogan and the minions from California

Well, I moved to Texas almost three years ago and I’m one who can not wait to GTFO! This weather here is NOT for me…you guys can have it!

@@marshalastovall4270 bye !!

In 1957 it was very dry, the only thing making it was jackrabbits, and they were just hide and bones!

Because Tennessee is more east,Texas is more west so we don’t get much rain as y’all do over there in Tennessee

@@aidenrokez8629 yes I'm aware of the reason behind it lol

@Jasen Vernor If you feel you need to put a label on it, call it whatever you want. I don't care. Not having enough natural resources to support a community is an actual problem. It's not an argument. It's a simple fact. When the bus is full, then the bus is full. Those who didn't get a seat will simply have move to the next bus.

Texas doesn't like rules. Places without rules eventually implode.

@Jasen Vernor It was our direct experience living in Texas from 2004 to 2015 that certain types of people -- gays, lesbians, people of color, non-fundamentalist Christians, non-Christians, Democrats, liberals and progressives -- were actively encouraged to move out of Texas. I got the hint when someone did $6000 damage to my car -- breaking all the car windows, denting in the doors and the hood -- because I had an "Obama 2012" bumper sticker on my car, and they left a note saying that "Obama f.ers get out of Texas". I have found a rather astonishing number of Texas ex-pats in the city where I now live -- enough that we have a well-attended "Texas night" where we share the foods we loved in Texas -- who have shared similar stories. Talk all you want about "virtue signaling", but we don't see a lot of virtue going on in Texas right now. If you're stupid enough to pack ten million people into an area which doesn't have the water resources to handle a population of ten million people -- well, then, *you pretty much deserve what you get.*

Wrong - We have the Edwards Aquifer and the following lakes - Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, and Lake Austin make up the Highland Lakes and hidden gems abound throughout the region. However, I have to agree with you that what made central Texas special are the hill country and beautiful clear waters of the highland lakes, rivers and creeks and less people. Now with the influx from people moving here from out out state - it has changed many magical things about Austin for the worse - local Democratic ran government offering huge tax free incentives to attract big corporations moving here greatly increased population, traffic, housing prices, taxes and crime. . . . and they are still coming. Bigger is not always better.

@@paulweaver5529 Yes, you said it better than I about the population growth, and all the reasons for it. I completely agree. As for the list of lakes you mentioned, it's true, most of those lakes are sort of close by. But they rarely share their water with us. Right? Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, and Lake Marble Falls are all North of the Austin area. It seems like it takes an act of congress to have them open their gates to let the water flow downstream. Maybe that's all to do with the rice growers, and the politics that surround the water rights? The more I think of it, an act of congress might be the exact thing that it does take to have those gates opened... I don't really keep track of those arguments. I just know their water usually stays up North. I live in a small lake town on the North Shore of Travis, and we tend notice when we're blessed with shared water. Lake Austin, really that particular stretch of water is all part of Lake Travis. And I might be mistaken, but I don't think any water is distributed from that section for residential use. Mostly that water is kept at a certain level to insure the upper crust has a nice water view at the edge of their green lawns. As for The Edward's Aquifer, well... Sadly, with all the new wells being drilled for all the new developments, places like Leander, and other cities skirting Austin, I do believe the Aquifer will be soon be suffering greatly because of it, if it isn't already. Not to mention the change in the weather this Summer! With temps reaching 112° there are actually people STILL trying to keep their water guzzling lawns from going dormant! I suspect many new arrivals to the area don't have the first clue that during droughts grass lawns should be allowed to go dormant. The green grass will return when the rain water allows such a treat in our dry Texas climate. Bermuda grass is miraculous that way. Green grass really shouldn't be the norm, not for public places, or residential homes, yet there they are, manicured to the nines. Letting the good times flow could very well be a thing of the past with Austin and the water. Maybe this Summer weather will open their eyes & they'll all move away? (Wishful thinking I'm sure...) I heard the arid West Texas desert weather will be permanently moving East to become our very close neighbor. If that's true, these increasing Summer temperatures could very well be a permanent thing. Even if a lot of the people did move away, the damage will have already been done. I've heard others call the type of development happening around here as: "The Human Tumor". I must admit, I'm starting to agree with that description as I witness the enveloping destruction that never seems to stop. Ok, I got a bit dark here at the end. Except... I just can't think of how to look at it any other way.

So digging about and releasing carbon the earth spent millions of years burying is no factor? It seems the drought in blue states is caused by too many people and golf course's, swimming pools etc. and in red states its the pacific Decadal oscillation. I guess we get to pick and choose what science we accept.

@Jasen Vernor be a nay sayer, till you can't get a drink of water, then ....?

Lol 10 years.. you realize thats nothing right?

@@MrC9Oh3 for me that is almost half my age lol

I would settle for a mild depression, they sometimes drop a lot of rain without the winds.

It’s so hot here I saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking.

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@Tristan Boyd: I've had heat exhaustion, it's not good. Ever since I suffered the first heat exhaustion it seems like I can't take the heat.

No it has not. Only a few smaller regions in the west were affected until this year. In fact 3 of the wettest years on record happened in the last 6 years in Texas. Thats part of why this is so scary it only took one spring/summer without rain to put us this far behind and basically kill everything. I work as an Orchard Maker in the Houston area and it was not this bad in 2011. It's basically impossible to plant trees right now.

@@luchacefox259 I farm wheat & cotton in the NW part of TX. When I say there has been a 5 yr drought, that's a fact. Houston is near the Gulf coast where drought conditions are rare. Widen your horizons... TX is a big state. The western third is drought striken. Haven't seen normal rainfall here since 2015.

@@rt3box6tx74 Once again it's you needs to expand your horizons outside of Lubbock Tx. My cousin is the biggest cotton farmer in the Panhandle and he has had record crops 3 of the last 6 years with the best rains they have seen in decades. Most of the state was fine until this year. The central and west part of the state is a desert and always has been. No one should be living there anyway and it's not a drought if you go to a desert and then have no rain. Sell your land and move before it gets worse and there are no options.

But don't worry. You have our thoughts AND our prayers.

Good.

Agree, im in ft.worth. i can't remember our last rain.

@@rneedham667 that's crazy. I have a cousin that has land in Canton.... About an hour and a half east of fort worth. He's having to sell cows, can't grow anything in his garden. He's been living there 45 years. Says this is the worst he's seen it.

San Antonio hasn't had an inch of rain since February 3rd and between then and now the only day we had even half an inch was when we got 0.53 inches on June 28th. An almost completely rainless spring which had us into the 100s by the second week of May. Most of May felt like a typical August, our June was basically 98-106 most of the way, and July this year has been worse than August 2011 was. Dreading what August 2022 holds.

I agree on the smoke, but youre an idiot If your saying we haven't had normal rains the last few winters

The snow isn't sticking because it's too hot in the winter. And the rain isn't falling in the summer. And too many people move to the area and too many businesses are pulling from the Water Resources because water is being priced too cheap.

@@macmcleod1188 True, Maybe I have to address this issue another way. It's getting scary on this Prison Planet. ♡ Stay Positive 🕊

@@gloriald444 well in 1980, the population was 110 billion people smaller. And the Texas population was about half what it is today.

Texas is a major FEMA queen. I'm tired of my taxes going to texans who don't do anything to prepare for natural disasters and climate change.