The search for victims of deadly flooding in Texas Hill Country is headed into its third week as officials try to pin down exactly how many people remain missing.

Mimi Hymel said the trauma of escaping Hurricane Katrina had a lasting impact on her childhood. But 20 years later, she’s found a way to bring comfort to the youngest survivors of today’s natural disasters.

Professional crisis communicators watched the news conferences with dismay. Deflecting blame is not helpful if politicians want to build trust with the public, they say.

Maps show how heavy rainfall and rocky terrain helped create the devastating Texas floods that have killed more than 120 people.

A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication failures during the disaster.

Coco Grieshaber, an 8-year-old Camp Mystic alumna, threaded beads into a homemade bracelet at her dining room table, sharing memories of the Texas summer camp that she left four days before flooding devastated the area on Fourth of July weekend.

Two massive disasters this year — the Texas floods and Los Angeles firestorms — are leading some to grapple with the question of how to get officials and the public to care and take action.

Lindsey McLeod McCrory’s 8-year-old daughter, Blakely, was attending Camp Mystic when she was killed in the devastating floods that hit Central Texas. McCrory remembers her daughter in an interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown.