Washington & Nuba, La. - Powerful winds ripped through parts of Washington and Nuba in St Landry Parish on Wednesday morning around 7:45 am.
The storm knocked down trees and power lines in neighboring communities like Nuba on Highway 182.
According to KATC’s Power Doppler Radar 3, severe storms were tracking though the area at the time damaging properties like Theresa Stelly’s 18-year-old carport.
“I was scared to death, I mean if your carport's down, it’s like okay the house is going to be next. We couldn’t get out of the back door because it was blocked by the carport,” Stelly said.
Using an excavator, St. Landry Parish government was able to lift the carport and retrieve the cars.
Despite the scare, Stelly says she’s grateful she is safe and out of harm’s way.
“I went on the front porch and that’s where we saw that all the trees all around our house were broken. It’s like God protected us,” she said.
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