A genuine clip of the Texas flood that occurred on July 13, 2025.
Following the fatal floods that occurred in central Texas in July 2025, people took to social media to share clips of the disaster and its aftermath. Almost two weeks later, the video consisting of clips from the flood received 1.5 million views on X (archives) and 97,000 likes on Instagram.
According to the video text, the footage is from Texas and is dated until July 13th, 2025. Another text reads, “No sirens, no alerts, just silence…and chaos.” The video contains clips from what appears to be eight different locations, each flooded with rapidly rising water from a nearby river. All clips are from the air, as if they were recorded from a drone or tower.
Not only is the text in the video wrong, but the worst flood occurred on July 4th, with an alert before the flood, but the clip doesn't show the actual footage from the flood. They will probably be generated. For this reason, we rated this claim as a fake.
First, let's establish where the flood occurred.
The worst flooding took place around the Guadalupe River in Carr County, Texas. There, news sources report that the majority of disaster deaths have occurred. The majority of Carr County communities lie along the Guadalupe River between the Guadalupe River, and there is comfort when the north of Guadalupe meets South Forkes. Carville is the largest town in the area. The area around the river fork is not very densely populated, but some camps are located at the fork banks.
NOAA river gauges have recorded massive floods on hunts, carvilles, comfort records or nearby records. These gauges recorded peak emblems at 6am, 8am and 12pm respectively.
There is a real video of the rising Guadalupe River recorded by people within the area at the time.
On the morning of July 4th, someone posted a video on Facebook. He is from Lane Valley Road near Centre Point, and street views of the bridge bridge on Lane Valley Road at about 8am show the same bend over the Guadalupe River.
Another video posted to YouTube by a local news station appears to have been recorded from San Antonio Street Bridge in Center Point. Again, you can see the location by going to Google Street View and looking for the river bends that appear in the video.
The videos of the eight flood clips posted on X look very different from these videos, both in the location of the river and in their actions. None of these Clip towns look like communities in the area. Even Kerrville, the largest town in the county, still appears smaller than the first few towns in X-Video.
The Guadalupe River is a relatively narrow river, especially while passing through Kerr County. Many of the X-clip rivers are too wide to become Guadalupe.
Also, every single clip of X-Video has a glowing omission. . A video from Lane Valley Road posted on Facebook shows a massive amount of debris following the water current, and a YouTube video taken from the San Antonio Street Bridge is seen in about three minutes. At some point in the latter video, there is also a house between the pieces carried along the flood river.
The San Antonio Street Bridge video is especially helpful in understanding what flooding in Kerr County looks like. The video is approximately 35 minutes long, and is consistently recorded from seconds before the flood begins, and when the riverbed is almost dry, the water starts to rise onto the bridge. Many clips in X-Video cause water to hit the surface like ocean waves against rocks during storms, but the San Antonio Street Bridge video brings the water up more steadily. Instead of hitting the bridge when it is high enough, the water will start to flow over the bridge without dramatic waves.
Incidence and errors in the X video suggest that the clip is likely to be generated. The most obvious red flag is the unrealistic behavior of pedestrians and drivers in the video. Because many people don't respond even when the water is visibly rushing towards them, or when it starts sinking onto them. Furthermore, some cars and buildings have unusual shapes that make no sense. The pedestrian disappears from existence and appears to return to existence in about 18 seconds to the video.
The watermark in the lower right corner of the video suggests that it was originally posted by the Tiktok account Spoookyydoo. The video doesn't appear in your profile, but my account posts a very similar video with “Texas” and mid-July dates displayed in the flood clips.
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