L’Anse Aux Pailles residents experience tornado damages recently

A tornado touched down Sunday afternoon in the L’Anse Aux Pailles community and wiped out a shed located at the home of Blyn and Sue Rozas.
“It was a little rocky over here,” Sue said. “It started drizzling. I was in my room putting up clothes, and I heard a big old gust of wind coming through. The hail started, and after the hail it was just a ferocious wind. In a matter of two minutes, it had wiped out the shed.”
Her husband Blyn said he was standing in the kitchen and saw when the patio furniture and other items “took off.”
“I looked over there and saw that roof (on the shed) come up,” he said. “It went up about 15 feet in the air and took off to the west.”
The heavy winds took the debris from the shed and scattered it about the property. Most of the debris went toward the rice bins located behind the Rozas’ house.
Blyn stated he used the shed to store his farming equipment. “I parked four tractors under it, and when I quit farming, we just started putting junk under it,” he said.
“I’m gonna tear it down,” he continued. “Two weeks ago one part had peeled off, so we just put it back on. Then this happened.”
Sue said the couple has been living at their home located about two miles east of Carver Elementary for close to 40-years, and during that time they have seen “little twisters” come through knocking down tree branches. “We’ve had twisters that passed before that have shifted the house, but nothing tramatic like this,” she said.
The Rozas also said how the weather affected the couple living near them. “They live in a little camper trailer underneath a covered shed,” Sue stated. “So he got his wife to get in the truck, and they went into Chataignier to get away from it.” According to Blyn, the couple had no damage to their trailer or barn.
“The hail was unbelievably heavy,” Sue said. “I experienced a tornado before years and years ago when my family was young, and it’s remarkable how close they come to your house and do the damage they do. And then poof- it’s gone.”