A small town in Louisiana. A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people.
There were more blizzards in the northern Midwest from the Dakotas to Michigan due to the heavy snow and high winds.
The impact was clear in places like Caddo Parish, Louisiana, where a man went out for groceries and returned to find his mobile home had been destroyed with his wife and son inside.
Where do you go to look for a house that isn't there? The governor said as he toured the path of destruction that it was a mile long.
The body of a young boy was found in the woods. His mother's body was found under the debris. The house was gone when the man went to shop for his family.
Presley Stevens and her daughter were in a bedroom closet when the storm hit.
Stevens said it was a loud whooshing sound. "I heard our stuff hitting into stuff and our windows breaking out."
In Union Parish, near the Arkansas line, a gymnasium was busy with volunteers and survivors going through donations. A trailer park with about 10 homes was wiped out and an apartment complex with 50 families was badly damaged in Farmerville.
The woman from Farmerville struggled to contain her tears as she talked about how she survived with her family. She said that a strange wind blew open the front door and her son barely managed to shut it when she yelled for them to get down.
She said that when they landed on the floor, all they could hear was the sound of gunfire. My son grabbed him off the couch because it was still shattering.
They hid in the tub and prayed until the storm passed.
Everyone in our community is okay. "I like how we came together," he said as he looked around the gym. We have to take charge of our own town. I think that is the best because it shows that people care about you.
There were possible twisters in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. A woman was found dead and eight people were hospitalized after a suspected tornado hit Killona.
The sheriff said they don't know what happened. The debris was all over the place. She might have been hit. We don't know if it's true. This was a terrible tornado.
In New Orleans, a home collapsed injuring four people, and five people were injured in New Iberia, Louisiana, where a possible tornado smashed the windows of a medical center.
The windows were broken when Lindsey Ronsonet came out after the storm. It was raining everywhere in there.
In Mississippi, a suspected tornado destroyed four large chicken houses, one of which contained 5,000 roosters, as well as mobile homes at a park.
More than 100,000 customers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan lost electricity as a result of the storm.
There was a no- travel advisory for major highways in North Dakota because of high wind gusts.
Dean Cota, manager of the Stamart Travel Center, said that the wind and ice was so bad that many people were in the ditches. Vehicles are blowing off the road due to the slick roads.
There will be more winter weather in the Upper Midwest and ice and snow in the central Appalachians. A winter storm watch is in effect through Friday. People from West Virginia to Vermont were told to watch for ice and snow.
That's right.
The reporter was from New Orleans. James Macpherson is from North Dakota.
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