That flooding and persistent power cuts sparked riots in the Pikine neighborhood where people barricaded roads with burned tires and smashed the windows of a police vehicle.
VOA: standard.2009.09.06
Images from the north Amiens neighborhood showed burned-out cars and the charred wreckage of a kindergarten and a sports center.
The President began his visit with a helicopter tour over some of the areas that were hardest hit by the wrath of the storm, including Breezy Point, a Queens neighborhood where more than 100 houses burned to the ground.