Storm damage minimal

Published 12:00 am 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.

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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.