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.

Officials in Texas have dramatically revised downwards the number of people missing from the catastrophic floods from 100 to just three.They have praised rescuers for the sharp reduction in the number of people on the missing list in Kerr County since July 4.

Over 100 people have died in the Texas flooding as of Tuesday. Here are answers to commonly asked questions from USA TODAY readers.

With an outpouring of volunteers from across Texas, the riverside town of Hunt is grappling with loss and recovery after deadly floods.

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

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

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,

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