At least one person was killed, and many houses were destroyed.
As morning dawned the day after a deadly tornado touched down, people in the New Orleans area awoke on Wednesday to survey the heavily damaged homes and debris-filled streets left in its path. The tornado hit both the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish, which abuts the city, on Tuesday night, killing at least one person and sending more to a hospital, and rescuers from the National Guard, state police and others spent the overnight hours sifting through the destruction looking for residents who may have been trapped. “We don’t know how many and we don’t know the severity of the injuries at this time,” Guy McInnis, the president of St. Bernard Parish, said in an interview as officials were struggling to determine the number of people displaced or hurt and the extent of the damage. “There are houses that are missing,” said James Pohlmann, the sheriff of St. Bernard Parish. “One landed in the middle of the street.” Aaron Ledet,44, heard the wind and headed to the bathroom. “I just put my family in the bathtub and prayed,” he said.
