A 27-year-old woman is dead and nine others are being treated at a hospital from severe weather that hit a rural area in northeast Acadia Parish last night. The one fatality took place on Prudence Highway north of Church Point. Sheriff KP Gibson says a suspected tornado damaged several homes.
“The main damage was some trailers that were in the direct path, just some total devastation of three or four of those structures and the others with moderate damage,” said Gibson.
Gibson says the loss of life could have been much worse as many residents were unprepared for the impact of the severe weather.
“You keep getting warnings and nothing happens, nothing happens, and then all the sudden, it happens. So how do you prepare for it, how do you know that it is going to be you that is affected by it? You never know what’s going to happen, but it caught everybody off guard,” said Gibson.
Gibson says the community response in the aftermath has been tremendous.
“It’s a very bad scenario that occurred in our parish, but at the same time, I’m seeing a lot of folks coming together to try to help those folks who have been affected get back on their feet,” said Gibson.
Damage has also been reported in Evangeline Parish.
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