Ted Cruz dismisses 'weather modification' conspiracy theory amid Texas flood crisis, says: 'Internet can be a strange place'
Bizarre conspiracy theories have surfaced on social media as Texas is reeling under a massive flood after Republican leader Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she will be introducing a new bill that would tackle weather modification.
This is based on conspiracy theories that the government or some secretive organizations are manipulating the weather, resulting in such sudden mishaps. These organizations are using aircraft to release chemicals or metals into the atmosphere, conspiracy theorists believe.
This is not a new theory but Greene's post after the Texas flood in which more than 80 people were killed reinvigorates these theories as being behind the Texas flooding.
Senator Ted Cruz Monday rubbished these theories and said there is zero evidence to support claims that anyone is manipulating the weather. "The internet can be a strange place," Cruz said at a press conference this morning. "People can come up with all sorts of crazy theories."
Ted Cruz said the authorities should have evacuated Camp Mystic, the Christian girls' camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River, was evacuated earlier.
'We would evacuate those in the vulnerable areas, such as younger children in the cabins, we would evacuate them sooner and get them to higher ground if we could go back,' Cruz said at a press briefing in Kerr County, the hardest-hit area of Texas Hill Country and home to the famed camp for young girls.
But Cruz said he did not want finger-pointing at this hour of tragedy.
"You're dropping your little girl off at camp, your little boy off at camp. You're celebrating Independence Day. You know that your child is going to be swimming, and canoes, and horseback riding, and doing archery, and making lifetime friends," Cruz said. "Then suddenly, it turns to tragedy."
"There's a time to have political fights. There's a time to disagree. This is not that time," Cruz said. "This is a time just to reach out, support each other, go volunteer at the Salvation Army, give them money, go volunteer at your church."
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