Petroleum refineries shut down by climate-intensified storms and flooding. Oil pipelines threatened by thawing ice. A fracking state’s population choked by air pollution from fracking sites. A climate-denying senator fleeing an extreme weather event for a Cancun vacation.

These are just some of the most powerful symbols of the insanity, nihilism, and willful ignorance that define the era of climate change — and this weekend, one of America’s oil bastions added another. Torrential rains flooded the halls of the Texas state Capitol just a few months after lawmakers in that same building passed some of America’s most radical initiatives to boost the fossil fuel industry.

For years, scientists have been warning that Central Texas — and Austin in particular — is threatened by storms made bigger by climate change. On Sunday, what had once been a typical month’s worth of rain poured down on Austin in the span of thirty minutes, flooding the Capitol building.