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Community members in Palmetto come together to cleanup Bolden Road after weekend tornado and last updated 2021-04-12 19:19:34-04 PALMETTO, La. — The neighborhood hit by the tornado in Palmetto on Saturday morning is still in the early stages of rebuilding their community. The people who live along Bolden Road tell me that they aren't surprised about how the community has come together to help in their efforts to clean up. "That's just the community," says Carol Johnson, a resident who lives along the street. "It's family and friends from right here, to those that are just passing by an...

Fund Set Up For Palmetto Tornado Victims Two people died and a little over a dozen homes were destroyed Saturday when an EF-3 tornado ripped through parts of St. Landry Parish. If you would like to be able to help the victims of the tornado, you can donate to a fund that has been set up by the Hope Alliance Community Development Corporation, and it's being administered by the Community Foundation of Acadiana. You can click here to donate. The tornado moved through near Palmetto at around 2 o'clock Saturday morning, and before the tornado was through, it had traveled a path that was 8.7 miles ...

Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com Apr 12, 2021 11:51 AM Residents in the St. Landry village of Palmetto are rummaging through the damage from an EF3 tornado that ravaged at least 25 homes early Saturday morning and claimed one life. Parish President Jessie Bellard  says the tornado touched down on Bolden Road just off Highway 359. “The path of the tornado was 8.4 miles long and the width of the tornado was 200 yards wide, it was a pretty massive storm.” The National Weather Service says debris could be seen 15-thousand feet in the air. Seven people were transported to the hospital ...

Ashley White/The Daily Advertiser, Bobby Ardoin/Special to The Daily World One person was killed and seven injured after at least one tornado touched down in St. Landry Parish.  A tornado hit the parish at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday as severe weather rolled across the state, according to a release from St. Landry Parish Director of Emergency Preparedness Van Reed. “All of a sudden we were spinning like the house in the Wizard of Oz," Marquitha Qubedeaux of Palmetto said.  Qubedeaux, Robert Reed and three children ages 14, 10 and 8 were in the home when the tornado hit.   Qubedeaux said...

Ashley White/The Daily Advertiser, Bobby Ardoin/Special to The Daily World One person was killed and seven injured after at least one tornado touched down in St. Landry Parish.  A tornado hit the parish at about 2:15 a.m. Saturday as severe weather rolled across the state, according to a release from St. Landry Parish Director of Emergency Preparedness Van Reed. “All of a sudden we were spinning like the house in the Wizard of Oz," Marquitha Qubedeaux of Palmetto said.  Qubedeaux, Robert Reed and three children ages 14, 10 and 8 were in the home when the tornado hit.   Qubedeaux said...