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DAMNED YOU OBAMA!!!!!!!!! YOU’RE NOT VISITING THE LOUISIANA FLOOD!!!!

 

That’s all over the social medias today. Obama is getting hammered because he is in Hawaii on vacation – playing golf of course (pun intended) – instead of visiting the flood region of Louisiana.  I got to wondering, what did his predecessor George W Bush do when floods occurred during his administration?

• Tropical Storm Allison floods in Louisiana and Texas – June 2001

Nope.

• Los Angeles County Flood of 2005

Nope.

• Mid-Atlantic and New England Flood – October 2005

Nope.

• Ka Loko Reservoir – March 2006

Nope.

• Mid-Atlantic Flood – June 2006

Nope

• Western Gulf Coast flood – October 2006

Nope.

• Washington State Flood – November 2006

Nope.

• 2007 Midwest flooding – August 2007

Nope.

• 2007 Oregon and Washington floods – December 2007

Nope.

• 2008 Midwest flooding – Spring 2008

Nope.

• June 2008 Midwest Flood

Yep. Visited Iowa in mid-June.

• July–August 2008 Alaska Flood

Nope.

In my search of each of these flood events, I found that George W Bush made a visit to one event out of twelve, which shows that a Presidential visit for floods is not a common occurrence. That doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be better if Obama would make time to visit. But we’ve seen this before. He’ll go, visit some places, then he’ll give a speech and mention global warming, which will immediately draw criticism from the same people who are criticizing him now for not going.

You may be wondering “Where’s the New Orleans visit in 2005???”. I left Katrina off the list for a reason. Hurricanes get way WAY more publicity due to the fact that we can see them coming, kind of like the slow-motion train wreck phenomenon… We just can’t keep our eyes off it… Or at least the media can’t. We follow them for days as they make their way to our shores and hit landfall. Coverage of hurricanes has been that way my whole life. floods caused by too much rain??? Not so much. Yes, floods like these do get reported, and the current Louisiana floods HAS gotten coverage before this “Where’s Obama” meme popped up. But floods never EVER get nearly the coverage that hurricanes, and the flooding caused by them, do.

PS.  I did find one other instance of a visit for flooding in Pennsylvania in 2004, but that was also due to the aftermath of a hurricane, Hurricane Ivan.

PPS. If I missed a flood event, or missed an instance where G W Bush did visit one of the about events, please let me know. I’ll be happy to add that information.