Tonadoes Rip Through Gulf State, Leaving atleast Three Dead

Severe weather condition and Tornadoes has ripped through the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, ripping off building roofs, mangling trailers at an RV park and leaving at least three people in Louisiana and Mississippi dead.

Seven people out of Thirty-one who were taken to the hospital were in critical condition.

It appeared that the recreational vehicle park in the town of Convent, in southern Louisiana happened to be one of the most hard-hit areas. Two people were killed there, said St. James Parish Sheriff Willy Martin, speaking on local television. Authorities were still looking for people possibly trapped under the debris, Martin said.
"We never had anything like this; we never had this many people injured in one event, and so much destruction in one event," Martin told WVUE news. "We won't stop searching until we're satisfied we've searched every pile."

Martin said three people were still believed to be missing but efforts to account for them were hampered because authorities didn't know how many people were at the park when the storm hit or how many people were taken to hospitals in private vehicles.
"The wind was blowing a little bit, but then it stopped. Then all of a sudden all kinds of wind and rain started. It was so bad, I had to go inside the house or I would have been blown away with it," Picou said.

"We felt the shockwave go through the building," Graham said.

Ronald Myers lives across the street from New Mount Bethel Baptist Church in Kenner, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans. He recalled the sky darkening and high winds — he believes it was a tornado. He and his wife came outside when they heard the church's alarm go off. High winds sheared the brick and mortar from the rear wall of the church.
"My wife came over to turn the alarm off and she came back home and said, 'Baby, the wall behind the church has done fell down,'" said Myers. He said he struggled to keep his footing in the wind, and it nearly knocked his wife down.

Governors in both Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency.
Speaking at the RV park in Convent, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards described the scene as a "jumbled mess."
"We all need to be prayerful and mindful and take those tornado warnings when we see them very seriously," Edwards said.

Source: AP