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August 23, 2016

Obama Visiting Louisiana Today to Tour Historic Flood Damage
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President Obama is visiting Louisiana today, where some neighborhoods
still have up to two feet of standing water left from the historic
flooding last week. At least 13 people died and 40,000 homes were
destroyed in what the Red Cross has called the worst natural disaster in
the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy. Obama has faced criticism from residents
and the local newspaper The Advocate for not traveling to the flood zone
earlier, comparing his failure to visit the region to President George
W. Bush's failure to travel to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina in 2005, although Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has said
until now he didn't want Obama to come, as he'd rather not redirect
resources to a presidential visit.


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