The President of the United States visits Florida this Saturday to assess the damage caused by Idália, which entered the northwest of the state as a category 3 hurricane on Wednesday and then crossed Georgia and the Carolinas.
“I’m going to Florida on Saturday morning,” Joe Biden announced during a surprise visit Thursday to the Washington headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which has been coordinating the response to the hurricane.
The visit of the US head of state to Florida generates great expectations, since the governor of that state, Ron DeSantis, is a member of the Republican Party, as well as former president Donald Trump (2017-2021), who is involved in the primaries for the nomination for the 2024 presidential election, in which Biden is seeking re-election.
Biden has had an uncomfortable relationship with DeSantis, who has implemented policies that oppose the president’s vision in areas such as immigration, abortion or the rights of the LGTBIQ+ community.
Idália, which became a storm, is currently in Atlantic waters, about 195 kilometers southeast of Cape Lookourt, North Carolina, according to the latest fact sheet from the National Hurricane Center (NHC, for its acronym in English).
This Thursday Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas continued their actions to remove debris and fallen trees after the passage of Idália, which after reaching the western end of Cuba arrived as a powerful hurricane in the region known as “Big Bend”, a rural area on the northwest coast of Florida.
While Idália did not cause devastating damage after slamming the mainland, it left hundreds of thousands of homes without power in these states, and streets and docks flooded due to its destructive rains, winds, and marine unrest.
Source: TSF
