“Very close friends and people who have become family to me have literally lost everything”. President Obama has faced criticism for his response to the floods, with the Baton Rouge Advocate comparing it to George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
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“Honestly, Obama ought to get off the golf course and get down there”, he said.
Louisiana’s Department of Revenue reminded taxpayers in the 20 parishes declared flood disaster areas that they can get extensions on state taxes due in August and later.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, right, help to unload supplies for flood victims during a tour of the flood damaged area in Gonzales, Louisiana, Aug. 19, 2016. “Too little, too late!”
The president has been criticized for waiting until after his vacation to tour the flooding. It was kind of one of those, ‘We’re neighbors, but there’s a line, ‘ but down there, you’re just one big community.
Prince Johnson said there was no flood damage at LAB’s own headquarters in Baton Rouge. They snapped a photo with the president as he looked at their home.
“I am committed to visiting communities affected by these floods, at a time when the presence of a political campaign will not disrupt the response”, she said, while calling for donations to the Red Cross.
Krichel told CNN’s Nick Valencia he had lost a classic auto he had been holding onto for years, a motorcycle he had been working on since the early 1980s and a family Bible from the late 1800s in the deluge. After doing so, he promised to rebuild the state.
President Barack Obama, in Baton Rouge on Tuesday to view the destruction brought last week’s historic rainfall, also met with the family of Alton Sterling, who was shot to death during a confrontation with police officers in early July.
One of the officers injured in the Baton Rouge attack, East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s Deputy Nick Tullier, was on life support into August.
However, Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards had asked Obama to delay his visit because presidential visits require a huge retinue of Secret Service agents and tie up local and state law enforcement resources needed elsewhere in disasters.
“I will be so grateful to those who donate whatever they can to help get southern Louisiana back on its feet after this devastating storm”, Gausman said. Edwards, who had urged the president not to visit the state when the rescue operation was in full swing, said the federal government so far has been “responsive to all of our requests”.
Some of the mobile homes coming to Louisiana as temporary housing were to be in Baton Rouge on Thursday, FEMA spokesman Kurt Pickering said.
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Samaritan’s Purse, which is also on site, reported that more than 100 volunteers – nearly half of them first-timers – have already put in many hours clearing debris and salvaging valuables from homes throughout the Baton Rouge area, which officials have described as “Katrina-like”, referring to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
