Photo archive for May 3, 2009
A large tree fell into the back side of Hakam Abuhakmeh's family home on Woodhaven Drive Sunday morning.View photo »
Erica Long stands in the doorway of a Melrose Avenue house that was destroyed by a fallen tree. Long was helping her best friend move furniture out of the house after the tree crashed through the house. View photo »
Paul Kyzar pulls the couch off the front porch of a Melrose Avenue house that was destroyed by a fallen tree Sunday morning. View photo »
Mississippi State Trooper Kerrick Watson talks with Doris Lewis about the tree that fell on the truck owned by Lewis' sister. The tree that fell on two cars on Martin Luther King Jr. Road was uprooted by the severe thunderstorm that passed through the area Sunday. One passenger was transported to the hospital. View photo »
Willie Lewis and Charles Flowers look at the roots of a tree that fell on the Lewis house on North Concord Street in Natchez Sunday. View photo »
An antenna on the top of the WTYJ radio station was snapped by high winds during Sunday's severe storm that passed through the area.View photo »
Trees and downed power lines cover a portion of St. Charles Street near downtown Natchez. View photo »
The pumpkin sign from the Miss-Lou corn maze on U.S. 84 outside Vidalia sits in a field about a quarter of a mile away from its original position. High winds apparently pick up the fiberglass ball and moved in along the highway just east of the new Walmart Supercenter. View photo »
Pea-size hail pelted downtown Natchez and surrounding areas during a severe thunderstorm that passed through the area Sunday morning.View photo »
Trippy Shields helps clean off pea-sized hail and other strom debris from the front porch of Trinity Church Sunday morning.View photo »
Owen Hornstein with passenger Rita Beane, both of Natchez, lands his 1946 Aeronca Champ at the Concordia Parish Airport Saturday during the Louisiana Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in Event. View photo »
A N815CB makes its way to a parking spot at the Concordia Parish Airport Saturday during the Louisiana Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in Event. View photo »
Shirley Wilson and grandson Sam Pierce, 2, both of Natchez, watch the planes fly in to the Concordia Parish Airport Saturday during the Louisiana Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-in Event. View photo »
Birmingham, Al., residents Grayson Mayer, 2, grandfather Gary Holloway and father Brandon Mayer watch the planes fly in to the Concordia Parish Airport. View photo »
Natchez resident Rita Beane flies in to the Concordia Parish Airport with pilot Owen Hornstein in a 1946 Aeronca Champa. View photo »
An ultra glide flies in to the Concordia Parish Airport during the Experimental Fly -in Saturday. View photo »
One of the fiberglass signs for the corn field along Highway 84 outside of Vidalia was torn to shreds from the high winds Sunday.View photo »
High winds from Sunday morning's storm peeled back the roof of Vital Oil Services on Murray Drive in Vidalia. View photo »
Former assistant coach for the U.S. National Shooting Team Jack Withers helps 4-H Club member Morgan Nettles, 11, of Fayette, line up his shot while teaching kids to shoot air rifles and air pistols at the Adam’s County Sheriff’s Shooting Range on Foster Mound Road in April. View photo »
Former NFL player Noland “Super Gnat” Smith watches his tee off hole No. 8 during the Joe Fortunato Celebrity Classic Golf Tournament at Duncan Park on Saturday. View photo »
Former Dallas Cowboy linebacker D.D. Lewis watches his hit during the Joe Fortunato Golf Tournament at Duncan Park Saturday. View photo »
Sarah Rodriguez, 13, a seventh grader at Trinity Episcopal Day School, smashes an old car with a sledge hammer Saturday at Trinity’s Mayfair. View photo »
Photographer Salongo Lee talks about some photos of an abandoned moving trailer he took. View photo »
This photo of an abandoned truck was taken by Lee. These photographs and others will be on display until May 15 at Salongo Lee’s gallery, Salongo’s Art in the Vault on Franklin Street.View photo »
This trio of photos of an abandoned truck on Aldrich Street in Natchez will be on display until May 15 at Lee’s gallery on Franklin Street.View photo »
Soda Pops owner Shawn Crowe paints a mural on the wall in the new store located in the strip mall in front of the Natchez Mall. View photo »
Soda Pops owner Heather Crowe places her first opening food order with U.S. Food Service territory manager Tara Brooks in the ice cream and sandwich shop.View photo »
Soda Pops owner Heather Crowe places her first opening food order with U.S. Food Service territory manager Tara Brooks in the ice cream and sandwich shop.View photo »
Relay for Life announcer Dave “Rosco” Kimbro breaks out his dance moves while walking in Miss-Lou Team Extreme’s tribute lap to the song “Baby Got Back,” in honor of those who have been diagnosed with colon cancer, at Relay for Life Friday night on the Vidalia Riverfront. View photo »
Sarah Rodriguez, 13, a seventh grader at Trinity Episcopal Day School, smashes an old car with a sledge hammer Saturday at Trinity’s Mayfair. View photo »
Relay for Life announcer Dave “Rosco” Kimbro breaks out his dance moves while walking in Miss-Lou Team Extreme’s tribute lap to the song “Baby Got Back,” in honor of those who have been diagnosed with colon cancer, at Relay for Life Friday night on the Vidalia Riverfront. View photo »
Photos above: Images of U.S. residents wearing surgical masks and taking flu tests have been printed in newspapers across the country, due to the recent outbreaks of the H1N1 virus commonly called swine flu. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta recently released electron microscope images of the isolated virus (in collage of images above). View photo »
