Tornado hits north Evangeline Parish

As a heavily overcast dawn broke Tuesday, Becky Blood, who lives along Highway 167 half way between Bayou Chicot and Turkey Creek, heard the distinctive sound of an approaching train.
A tornado approached the highway from the west, across the highway from Blood’s house. Across the highway was a house she owns, where her son and daughter live.
Blood had gone outside her home when she heard the tornado, and also the howling of her two bloodhounds, so she quickly went to an inside hallway and waited out the tornado. “When you hear that sound, it’s on you,” she said.
It wasn’t a long wait. She said it was over in about five seconds.
She noticed traffic backing up on the highway and went outside. A pine tree had fallen across the highway. There did not appear to be any debris on the east side of the highway, but when she went across the highway to her son’s house, she was amazed at the damage. Forunately her son and daughter-in-law were not in the house, which had a dent in the metal roof but other than that, sustained surprisingly little damage.
Trees were uprooted, tree parts were everywhere, a cow feeder was picked up and deposited about 25 feet from where it had been. A kennel where her two dogs were was moved, but the dogs, as well as a pet wild boar in a separate enclosure, weren’t injured. Culverts that were stored in the open moved, and other objects moved around on her property. Blood inspected a lane that runs from the highway to the west, and she could see the path the tornado had taken.
The Evangeline Parish Emergency 911/OEP did not receive reports of any other tornadoes that touched down Tuesday morning.