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Storm damage minimal
Published Sunday, March 29, 2009
NATCHEZ — Despite several days of severe weather, the Miss-Lou escaped largely unscathed.
All of Adams County was under a tornado warning at some point Friday night —there were four warnings issued during the evening — but other than a few trees down on some of the county’s rural roads, the damage was fairly limited, Adams County Emergency Management Director Stan Owens said.
“There was no structural damage that we are aware of,” Owens said.
There were two vehicular accidents during the storm reported at the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.
Concordia Parish also weathered the two tornado warnings it was under with little damage.
“If there is any, we can’t see it from the highways, and there has been no damage reported from the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office or the towns,” Concordia Parish Emergency Director Morris White said.
That’s in part because the storms skirted around the parish.
“What we were supposed to get through here, it went to the east of us a little bit, so we didn’t catch the full brunt of the storm,” White said.
In Wilkinson County, officials are still in the process of assessing damages, Wilkinson County Emergency Manager Thomas Tolliver said.
Numerous trees were downed in the second and third districts of Wilkinson County, and several roads and culverts were washed out in the third and fourth districts, Tolliver said.
There were also several accidents — none with casualties — because hail made the roads slippery, he said.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has also reported that three homes were damaged by the storms in Wilkinson County.
“We fared pretty decently for what it was,” Tolliver said.
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Posted by iluvntz2 (anonymous) on March 29, 2009 at 12:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
What happened to the sirens? We were under a warning sometime after 10, Jax broadcast it, civil defense finally broke in on the TV and still no sirens. Good thing it was a false alarm --- and a Friday and we were watching TV, otherwise we would not have known anything.
Also, our weather radio never alarmed, the transmitter at Bude must be out of service!!!!
Posted by chsmom (anonymous) on March 29, 2009 at 1:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The sirens went off in Natchez for about 20 minutes......... was around 6:30 to 7pm Friday night.
Posted by iluvntz2 (anonymous) on March 29, 2009 at 8:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
But there was another warning at 10 or 11 pm, where were the sirens that time?
Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on March 29, 2009 at 8:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We heard the ones at 6 all the way out to my house on Palestine. I was asleep by 10, so if we had had a tornado I would have slept my way to Oz.
Posted by lowrider (anonymous) on March 29, 2009 at 11:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Everytime the EAS would activate on my televisions, all I heard was this is Stan and then it went to static. Stan you might need to get that fixed.
Posted by dixiemama (anonymous) on March 29, 2009 at 12:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
freedom42
At 6 we were at Ryan's but didn't hear the sirens. Looks like they could have warned the customers. Coming out it was raining so hard we couldn't see the car.
Once home we watched the Weather Channel and it kept us updated minute by minute. I was very surprised the cable didn't go out.
Posted by proudamerican77 (anonymous) on March 30, 2009 at 9:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Go to www.weather.com and sign up for weather alerts. You enter the counties/parishes you want and your cell phone number and it will text you every time there is a watch and warning of any kind. That is the way I kept up the bad weather and I received several texts during the past few days of bad weather: ranging from tornado watches to severe thunderstorm watches which then turned to warnings and I received a text each time it was updated and for where.
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