{"id":352284,"date":"2026-06-27T03:10:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:10:28","slug":"a-new-podcast-explores-what-happened-the-night-floods-swept-texas-hill-country-last-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/352284\/","title":{"rendered":"A new podcast explores what happened the night floods swept Texas Hill Country last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of July 4, 2025, floodwaters tore through Texas Hill Country. The catastrophic natural disaster killed more than 130 people, many of whom were children away from their parents at summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd as the sun rose that day, revealing the scale of the devastation, one question kept ringing through the ears of those still alive: What happened that night?<\/p>\n<p>\nA team of reporters out of The Texas Newsroom and PBS Frontline came together to answer that question. Over the past year, reporters spoke with survivors, lawmakers, residents, state officials and more to piece together the events of that fateful night \u2014 and what\u2019s happened since.<\/p>\n<p>\nHouston Public Media reporter and podcast host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/staff\/dominic-walsh\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dominic Anthony Walsh<\/a> joins host Peter O\u2019Dowd to discuss \u201cAfter The Flood,\u201d a five-episode podcast series that dives into the floods that swept through Texas Hill Country last year, and how the area has recovered since.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/06\/26\/after-the-flood-podcast\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the early hours of July 4, 2025, floodwaters tore through Texas Hill Country. The catastrophic natural disaster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-352284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}