Two massive disasters this year are leading some to grapple with the question of how to get officials and the public to care and take action.

Texas was hammered with heavy rain again Sunday, just nine days after catastrophic flash floods left more than 120 people dead in one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s

At least 135 people, including 37 children, died in the torrential downpour over the July 4 holiday weekend. The number of missing people dropped sharply on Saturday.

New flood warnings have been issued along the Guadalupe River in Texas less than two weeks after flooding killed more than 100 people.

Officials in Kerr County, Texas — where 27 campers and counselors at a Christian summer camp were killed in catastrophic flooding — had discussed installing a flood warning system

With an outpouring of volunteers from across the state, the riverside town of Hunt is grappling with loss and recovery.

Failing to translate flood forecasts into timely messages that tell people what they need to do to stay safe can have tragic consequences. In Texas and elsewhere, the solution is more wide-ranging than fixing any single channel of communication.

On Friday (July 18), millions of Americans are under weather alerts as severe conditions sweep across the country. Seventeen million people are under flood alerts across the Gulf Coast and the mid-Atlantic,