2026-06-06
24 分钟Hey there, this is David Green.
I'm going to be guest hosting In Conversation until Shumita returns from parental leave.
Before we get into today's episode, just a warning
that this episode does contain descriptions of child loss, drowning, and grief.
This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm David Green in for Shumita Basu.
Today, one family story of survival and healing after the Texas floods.
In the early morning of July 4th, 2025, Texas Monthly editor Aaron Parsley
was at his family's home on the Guadalupe River northwest of San Antonio.
He was there for the holiday weekend with his husband Patrick, his dad Clint,
his sister Alyssa, her husband Lance, and their two small children Rosemary and Clay.
Aaron's dad and stepmom bought the house back in 2021
as a place for the family to vacation and to watch their grandkids grow up.
It sat on a stretch of the river that's really wide and really slow and really beautiful, lined with cypress trees.
It's idyllic, it's beautiful.
Rain was in the forecast.
The area was flood prone, but their house was built for it.
It sat on huge concrete pillars 20 feet off the ground above the likely flood zone.
We know that this river floods and we thought that we were safe.
It's really, really hard to imagine the river coming out of its banks