At least three people are dead and dozens injured after dozens of tornadoes swept through Louisiana and other parts of the southern U.S. this week.
A 56-year-old woman in Killona, La., died after a tornado hit her home, theLouisiana Department of Healthsaid in a statement Wednesday.
“She means the world to me, and if anybody knew her and knew my mama, they knew that she would give anybody the clothes off her back,” the victim’s daughter said,according to an NBC News report.
The home of another Killona resident, Mar Marshall, is gone but he said he’s grateful to be alive. “My neighbor lost her life,” he told NBC News. “This material stuff can all be replaced, but you can’t replace a life.”
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Twisters spun through the New Orleans metropolitan area overnight Wednesday, leaving homes decimated and residents injured,according to CNN.
In the city’s Algiers neighborhood, four people were treated at local hospitals and at least one home collapsed, Collin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, told the news network.
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A pair of tornadoes appeared to merge together in New Iberia, La., where a hospital’s windows were blown out, NBC News reported.
A neighborhood in Farmerville, La., was leveled,according to KSLA News. The town’s police chief said 25 people were hurt, including some with critical injuries.
Resident Patsy Andrews was at home with her children when the storms hit Farmerville,she told CNN affiliate KNOE.
“All of a sudden that wind was so heavy, it broke my back door,” Andrews said in an interview. “The lights went off and all we could hear was glass popping everywhere.”
After taking shelter in the bathroom, “We just got in the tub and we hugged each other,” she continued. “We just kept praying.”
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, at least seven people were injured, including five in the town of Grapevine, where two tornadoes were reported on Tuesday, CNN reported.
More than 15 million people are now in the path of potential tornadoes on Thursday in parts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas as the severe weather shifts east, according to CNN.
source: people.com
