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.

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.

A Texas woman with ties to Camp Mystic, which saw the deaths of at least 27 campers and counselors from the devastating July 4 floods, recalled her ordeal of being surrounded by water and surviving the deadly disaster.

The 8-year-old was the final missing Camp Mystic girl after floods overtook the shores of the Guadalupe River in parts of Kerr County.

Camp Mystic is a private Christian all-girl’s summer camp located right on the bank of the Guadalupe River. Due to this, many of the young campers fell victim to the rising waters when the flooding began. According to Taaffe, wearing this tie is in the effort to shed light on the situation, and honor the girls who didn’t make it.