A storm system that spawned dozens of suspected tornadoes from Texas to Florida was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and blowing homes into pieces in Louisiana.
Damage is seen along Schoolhouse Road after a tornado moved through area in Killona, La., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.
The National Weather Service can take days to confirm whether destructive winds were in fact tornadoes, but the impact was clear in places like Caddo Parish, Louisiana, where a man went out for groceries and returned to discover his mobile home was gone, and with it, his wife and son. Another Keithville man, William Walls, said a tornado picked up his home and tossed it into his brother’s house next door. Videos he posted on Facebook show the shredded remains.Walls said in the videos that he was standing on the back porch of his brother’s home and the wind blew the door shut. He couldn’t get inside and he ended up standing out there as the tornado came right over the house, he said.
Damage is seen along Schoolhouse Road after a tornado moved through area in Killona, La., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. Other possible twisters struck neighboring Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes — including areas badly damaged by a March tornado. St. Bernard Sheriff Jimmy Pohlman said the latest tornado damage covered a roughly 2-mile stretch. Parish President Guy McInnis said the damage was less than in the March tornado though numerous roofs were blown away or damaged.
People survey damage following a tornado at the Iberia Medical Center, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, in New Iberia, La.
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