{"id":8729,"date":"2016-08-18T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2016-08-18T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T23:44:07","slug":"damned-you-obama-youre-not-visiting-the-louisiana-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=8729","title":{"rendered":"DAMNED YOU OBAMA!!!!!!!!! YOU&#8217;RE NOT VISITING THE LOUISIANA FLOOD!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"DAMNED%20YOU%20OBAMA%21%21%21%21%21%21%21%21%21%20YOU%27RE%20NOT%20VISITING%20THE%20LOUISIANA%20FLOOD%21%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.louisianahelicam.com\/img\/s2\/v52\/p1616882925-4.jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all over the social medias today. Obama is getting hammered because he is in Hawaii on vacation &#8211; playing golf of course (pun intended) &#8211; instead of visiting the flood region of Louisiana. \u00a0I got to wondering, what did his predecessor George W Bush do when floods occurred during his administration?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Tropical Storm Allison floods in Louisiana and Texas \u2013 June 2001<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Los Angeles County Flood of 2005<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Mid-Atlantic and New England Flood \u2013 October 2005<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Ka Loko Reservoir \u2013 March 2006<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Mid-Atlantic Flood \u2013 June 2006<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Western Gulf Coast flood \u2013 October 2006<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Washington State Flood \u2013 November 2006<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>2007 Midwest flooding \u2013 August 2007<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>2007 Oregon and Washington floods \u2013 December 2007<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>2008 Midwest flooding \u2013 Spring 2008<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>June 2008 Midwest Flood<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep. Visited Iowa in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/president-visits-flood-ravaged-iowa\/\">mid-June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>July\u2013August 2008 Alaska Flood<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t mean that it wouldn&#8217;t be better if Obama would make time to visit. But we&#8217;ve seen this before. He&#8217;ll go, visit some places, then he&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>You may be wondering &#8220;Where&#8217;s the New Orleans visit in 2005???&#8221;. I left Katrina off the list for a reason. Hurricanes get way WAY\u00a0more publicity due to the fact that we can see them coming, kind of like the slow-motion train wreck phenomenon&#8230; We just can&#8217;t keep our eyes off it&#8230; Or at least the media can&#8217;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\u00a0get reported, and the current Louisiana floods HAS gotten coverage before this &#8220;Where&#8217;s Obama&#8221; meme popped up. But floods never EVER get nearly the coverage that hurricanes, and the flooding caused by them, do.<\/p>\n<p>PS. \u00a0I did find one other instance of a <a href=\"https:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/06\/images\/20080619-15_d-0515-1-515h.html\">visit for flooding in Pennsylvania in 2004<\/a>, but that was also due to the aftermath of a hurricane, Hurricane Ivan.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ll be happy to add that information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"DAMNED%20YOU%20OBAMA%21%21%21%21%21%21%21%21%21%20YOU%27RE%20NOT%20VISITING%20THE%20LOUISIANA%20FLOOD%21%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&nbsp; That&#8217;s all over the social medias today. Obama is getting hammered because he is in Hawaii on vacation &#8211; playing golf of course (pun intended) &#8211; instead of visiting the flood region of Louisiana. \u00a0I got to wondering, what did his predecessor George W Bush do when floods occurred during his administration? Tropical Storm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,56,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}