5-15-24
AN E-F-TWO TORNADO PACKING WINDS UP TO ONE HUNDRED TWENTY MILES AN HOUR TOUCHED DOWN IN HENDERSON AND CECILIA MONDAY, CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. AN ELDERLY COUPLE’S HOME IN HENDERSON WAS HIT WITH THE COUPLE INSIDE AND THE ROOF WAS PUSHED ABOUT TEN YARDS OVER, EXPOSING THE LIVING ROOM. THE WOMAN, WHO IS EIGHTY-FIVE, IS IN THE HOSPITAL IN STABLE CONDITION WHILE A NINETY-YEAR-OLD MAN ESCAPED WITHOUT A SCRATCH. THE COUPLE HAD TAKEN REFUGE IN THE BATHROOM, WHICH CAVED IN WHEN THE WINDS PICKED UP THE ROOF.
THERE WAS ONE DEATH DUE TO THE TORNADO IN CECLIA, WHEN VIOLENT WINDS FLIPPED AN R-V. THE WOMAN INSIDE, TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD LYDIA STEGALL OF BRONSON, TEXAS, WAS KILLED WHEN SHE WAS CRUSHED BY FURNITURE. TWO OTHER MOBILE HOMES IN THE AREA WERE DESTROYED. ONE OF THEM HAD AN OCCUPANT AT THE TIME, BUT THE MAN WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE BY CLIMBING OUT THE FRONT DOOR, WHICH WAS FACING THE SKY.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CONFIRMED TWO TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN IN CALCASIEU PARISH. THE ONE IN SULPHUR, WHICH DAMAGED SEVERAL HOMES, BUSINESSES AND WAREHOUSES, WAS RATED AS AN E-F-TWO TORNADO WITH WINDS REACHING UP TO ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR. THE TORNADO IN WESTLAKE WAS AN E-F-ONE WITH UP TO ONE HUNDRED MILE AN HOUR WINDS. IT CROSSED I-TEN INTO DOWNTOWN LAKE CHARLES, CAUSING DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES AND BUSINESSES.
A LARGE TREE FELL AND CRUSHED A HOME IN LAFAYETTE MONDAY. KIMANI MCCOY TELL KLFY TV HE AND HIS FAMILY HAD JUST PURCHASED THE HOME HOPING TO REMODEL IT AND START A NEW CHAPTER. DEWAYNE SOULTER OF TWIN OAKS TREE SERVICE WAS HELPING REMOVE THE TREE WHEN HE TOLD MCCOY THAT HE HAD A MOBILE HOME HE WAS WILLING TO GIVE TO HIS FAMILY TO HELP THEM START OVER. SOULTER TOLD THE FAMILY THERE WOULD BE NO CHARGE AND THAT HE JUST WANTED TO BLESS THEM. HE REMINDED THE FAMILY TO PUT GOD FIRST.
GOVERNOR JEFF LANDRY AND HIS DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY TO DISCUSS THE SEVERE WEATHER THAT HIT LOUISIANA MONDAY. DIRECTOR JACQUES THIBODEAUX SAID SIXTEEN PARISHES WERE AFFECTED BY THE STORM. A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ONE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE WITHOUT POWER IN ITS AFTERMATH. THREE PEOPLE WERE CONFIRMED KILLED BY THE STORMS INCLUDING A PREGNANT WOMAN AND HER UNBORN BABY IN WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH, WHEN A TREE FELL ON HER TRAILER.
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA IS GIVING PRAISE TO THE ACADIA PARISH ANIMAL CONTROL STAFF FOR RESCUING A DOG THAT HAD BEEN DUMPED IN CHURCH POINT AND THEN SHOT IN THE KNEE. ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER SAMANTHA GRANGER SAYS SHE AND MADILYN THIBODAUX WERE DISPATCHED TO THE SCENE THANKS TO CIVILIANS WHO CALLED IT IN. SHE SAYS AN ACADIA PARISH DEPUTY WAS THERE CONSOLING THE DOG AND HE HELPED THEM LOAD THE DOG INTO THE VEHICLE, AND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE CROWLEY VETERINARY CLINIC. THE DOG, WHICH WAS NAMED LUCA, IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY AND THE RESCUE GROUP, LABS FOR RESCUE, ACCEPTED CUSTODY OF THE DOG AND INTENDS TO ADOPT HIM.
LAFAYETTE POLICE HAVE ARRESTED A MAN IN CONNECTION TO A SHOOTING YESTERDAY AFTERNOON THAT HAPPENED IN THE THIRTEEN HUNDRED BLOCK OF NORTHEAST EVANGELINE THRUWAY. ONE PERSON WAS WOUNDED AND TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. POLICE IDENTIFIED THE SUSPECT AS TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD TRESMOND JONES OF LAFAYETTE. HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE LAFAYETTE PARISH CORRECTIONAL CENTER ON A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
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