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HOUSTON (REUTERS) - US President Joe Biden met with volunteers at a food bank, toured a health centre and visited an emergency operations facility on Friday (Feb 26) to assess recovery efforts from a severe winter storm while an aide blamed state government for being unprepared.
Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, landed in Houston where he met Republican Governor Greg Abbott and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to discuss the recovery from last week s storm, which caused serious damage to homes and businesses, left millions without power or clean water for days, and killed at least two dozen.
At the Houston Food Bank, the largest in the country serving more than 1.1 million people, Mr Biden saw rows of packaged food, from pasta to applesauce, stacked in a large warehouse and watched conveyors move slowly as volunteers pulled food out of boxes and put them in containers for delivery.
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image captionMr Biden toured the Houston Food Bank, the largest food bank in the nation
President Joe Biden has travelled to Texas in his first trip to a disaster zone, visiting workers still reeling from a deadly winter storm. You re doing God s work, Mr Biden told emergency workers in Houston.
His visit on Friday came as Texas recovers from a massive energy failure that left millions without electricity amid an unusually severe cold snap.
Dozens of deaths have been blamed on the cold, but it could take months to determine the full tally, US media say.
The energy disaster, which affected some four million residents, came as Texas was seeing the lowest recorded temperatures in more than three decades earlier this month.
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