Heavy rain poured over parts of central Texas, dumping more than a month's worth of rain for places like San Angelo.

Flash floods in Texas have killed at more than 80 people, many of them children.Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours Friday in the Texas Hill Country, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.

Dozens are dead not because such events are unpredictable, but because society is organized around the profit interests of the financial oligarchy, not human need.