Blood in the Water

“Alissa managed to keep both kids on the countertop, one hand on each, still trying to reassure them. As the house came undone, she grabbed one in each arm. This is the part that will forever haunt me. If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know. Alissa remembers two things after she and her children hit the water. She heard Clay coughing. And she heard Rosemary saying ‘Mama.'” An absolutely stunning first-person account of what it was like for a family to experience the ravaging Guadalupe flood. Texas Monthly: The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.