Tim Destri Quotations

We do encourage people to get weather radios - or some other alert to wake you up when these things happen.

The system weakened as it hit Slidell (La.). It really didn't do much to Mississippi.

In the South there seems to be two seasons where tornadoes mostly occur: in the late fall and then sometimes in the late winter into early spring. We don't get as many down this close to the Gulf Coast as they do more inland, but it's not unheard of.

It looks like there were two separate tornadoes or a tornado and a straight-line wind event. We're pretty sure the airport damage was caused by a tornado.