
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
David Gilbert, Molly Taft
created: July 8, 2025, 10:01 p.m. | updated: July 21, 2025, 9:50 a.m.
On Sunday afternoon, Michael Meyer, the founder of anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning on his Telegram channel.
Hours later, a man broke into an enclosure containing the NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damaging its power supply and briefly knocking it offline.
“Anyone that's going out to eliminate a Nexrad, if they haven't harmed life, and they're doing it according to the videos that we're providing, they are part of our group,” Meyer tells WIRED.
The result has not only been possible damage to a radar system but death threats against those who are being wrongly blamed for causing the floods.
“NOAA is aware of recent threats against NEXRAD weather radar sites and is working with local and other authorities in monitoring the situation closely,” NOAA spokesperson Erica Grow Cei tells WIRED.
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