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In Texas "the rain just will not quit," complained NBC's Don Teague. The Red River, the Brazos River, the Colorado River, the Rio Grande all flooded. In Marble Falls, ABC's Barbara Pinto showed us that puddles were all that remained from a flash flood: "Everything you see behind me was under five feet of water just a few hours ago…half of the city is without drinkable water. Roads and bridges are gone." It has rained in Oklahoma City for 15 days straight. Across the two states in the past week floods have killed eleven people. This is "one of the wettest Junes on record" noted CBS' Hari Sreenivasan--after what NBC's Teague called the region's "worst drought in 50 years."
The firefighters of Lake Tahoe are "up against some of the driest conditions here in decades," warned NBC's Peter Alexander. That tinder is aggravated by winds along the lake with gusts up to 40mph that cause "flames to leap as far as three quarters of a mile away," according to ABC's Miguel Marquez (subscription required). "Even veteran firefighters are on edge." A force of 800 has built fire breaks "by hand and bulldozer," as CBS' Bill Whitaker put it, around 80% of the blaze in the hope that winds do not carry embers across their containment lines. However he quoted the firefighters' commander: "Hope is not a plan."
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