Three dead in Louisiana as storm spawns tornadoes
(15 Dec 2022)
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Farmerville, Louisiana – 14 December 2022
1.Various of damaged homes along Highway 2 in Farmerville, Louisiana.
HEADLINE: Three dead in Louisiana as storm spawns tornadoes
ANNOTATION: A vast and volatile storm system ripped across the U.S. It spun up tornadoes that battered areas across Louisiana and killed at least three people.
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2.SOUNDBITE (English) Patsy Andrews, Louisiana resident:
“All I can hear was some wind headwind. And I went to my back door and said, Let’s go me thinking I’m going to open the door. I couldn’t. So it was so powerful for Sherry and then my swing left to do the same. There was no you can’t do that. And then we in rush, he was like in there, and nature was fighting against each other. A bust, a door. But somehow he was strong enough to push the door and lucky. And then my daughter came and she said she must got alert because I didn’t get alert. She got alert. And only thing we can hear, she said a tornado get down and what time we get and we’ve landed on the floor, all we can hear was power. Yeah, it was like, I guess gunshots are we can hear the stuff breaking through while windows break into every room. So we and we got on the middle of the floor. We were scrolling, it was dark and my baby was on the couch. We thought about him because he was asleep. And when she said, Gaston, we thought we lost him. So my son went and grabbed who would fill out the couch because it was still coming and popping like glass everywhere we were trying to crawl, it was glass. So she said, Look, the only thing we know to do and we was crying. We were screaming, Just calm down, Jesus. She somehow pushed his bathroom door open and somehow it were nobody but God. We all grab each other, we jumped in the tub, and all we could do was just pray. It was very devastating and every room where we live windows were broken. Heavy rain was something that I never experienced before. But being a worker for Hurricane Laura, I can sympathize with them now because it was very devastating.”
3. Various of downed power lines and line workers restore power
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4.SOUNDBITE(English) Patsy Andrews, Louisiana resident:
“Thank god that everybody in our community is safe. That’s the most important thing and I hope this bring us together. One thing about it, we need to come together and I like how we came together. How the people came out of nowhere because we always came for other people, Hurricane Laura, New Orleans, Mississippi; but now look, we had to step up for our own town and I think that’s a blessing because it shows people (tears up) it shows people love you.
5. Various interiors of Farmerville Recreation Center where volunteers have food, drinks, toiletries. The center will serve as a shelter for local residents who need a place to stay.
STORYLINE:
Authorities say there’s been a third fatality in Louisiana from violent storms ripping across the South.
St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said a woman’s body was found after the apparent tornado damaged several homes and flung debris around that district in southeast Louisiana.
Officials said eight others were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries sustained during the storm.
The death comes after officials reported finding the bodies an 8-year-old boy and his mother in northern Louisiana from a suspected tornado.
The tornado tore through their mobile home in Kiethville, south of Shreveport, Louisiana. A vast storm system was slicing across the U.S., bringing blizzard-like conditions elsewhere.
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