INGRAM, Texas - - Perry McAshan-McCall walks through her family’s Hill Country property that they’ve owned since 1944. Her grandmother, Edith McAshan, was a painter, and this plot of land had the peaceful, scenic views that inspired her art.

Now, Perry’s voice paints the scene of what happened just two weeks ago.

First up, Edith’s art studio.

“It was a studio with a northern light, and that’s evidently really good light,” Perry said. “And of course, as you see, the whole wall came out. It had two windows over here, and of course a wall. This is the most destroyed of all of our buildings.”

Across the yard was a cottage Perry’s parents built so they could live separately from mom and dad while her father recuperated from crash landing his Grumman Avengers airplane in World War II.

“Over the years, it’s grown. My mother added a bedroom loft, and she had a huge piece of furniture over here,” she said, pointing instead to ripped up floorboards. “It was really nice!”

Over 76 summers, this house became a part of her family, one of the last physical things she shared with her grandparents and parents who passed away. She and her husband, Michael, live in Houston, but they rented this place in order to pay the insurance, the yard man and the pool guy. To justify keeping it.

Then, in just 45 minutes on the morning of July 4, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet and washed all that history away.

Perry’s home is in the Bumble Bee subdivision of Ingram, the hardest hit neighborhood in the second deadliest flood in Texas history, officially with 135 lives lost. The creek bed that runs behind the neighborhood, Bumble Bee Creek, hadn’t seen a drop of water in six years due to drought. But when the Guadalupe surged, it ran up against the rock bluffs that give the Hill Country its beauty, flowed into Bee Creek, and put their subdivision in the middle of a perfect, horrible storm. Every house was totaled.