How the Texas floods forever changed one family

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  Hey there, this is David Greene.

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  I'm going to be guest hosting In Conversation until Shumita returns from parental leave.

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  Before we get into today's episode, just a warning

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  that this episode does contain descriptions of child loss, drowning, and grief.

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm David Greene, in for Shumita Basu.

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  Today, one family story of survival and healing after the Texas floods.

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  In the early morning of July 4th, 2025,

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  Texas Monthly editor Aaron Parsley was at his family's home on the Guadalupe River, northwest of San Antonio.

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  He was there for the holiday weekend with his husband Patrick, his dad Clint, his sister Alyssa, her husband Lance,

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  and their two small children, Rosemary and Clay.

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  Aaron's dad and stepmom bought the house back in 2021 as a place for the family to vacation

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  and to watch their grandkids grow up.

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  It sat on a stretch of the river that's really wide and really slow and really beautiful, lined with cypress trees.

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  It's idyllic.

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  It's beautiful.

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  Rain was in the forecast.

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  The area was flood-prone, but their house was built for it.

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  It sat on huge concrete pillars, 20 feet off the ground, above the likely flood zone.

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  We know that this river floods and we thought that we were safe.

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