Updated On: 21 February, 2021 07:56 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
US Prez, who offered himself as the empathetic candidate, wants to avoid repeating the mistakes of predecessors who got flak for insensitive responses during disasters

A pedestrian walks by a billboard truck with an image of SenatorTed Cruz in Houston. Cruz is facing criticism after he left Texas to go to Mexico with his family during an unprecedented winter storm. Pic/AFP
Add Mother Nature to the pile of crises on President Joe Biden’s plate.
A month into the job and focused on the Coronavirus, Biden is seeing his disaster management skills tested after winter storms plunged Texas, Oklahoma and neighbouring states into an unusual deep freeze that left millions shivering in homes that lost heat and power, and in many homes, water.