“He can’t swim. He’s a baby.”
A Texas Monthly senior editor wrote this first-person account of the night a flash flood on the Guadalupe River lifted his family’s house off its foundations on July 4, 2025. Seven people were inside. His 20-month-old nephew Clay didn’t survive. The body was found twelve miles downstream. Parsley wrote it hours after it happened. At least 135 people died in those floods. This is the kind of story that reminds you nature doesn’t care about your holiday plans or your river house or your family.