Article about the storm:
from Nola.com
High winds leave heavy damage in hurricane-hit areas
2/2/2006, 9:29 a.m. CT
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A violent thunderstorm hit the hurricane-ravaged New Orleans area early Thursday, undoing repairs and creating new damage at Louis Armstrong International Airport and in the Lakeview neighborhood still reeling five months after Katrina struck Aug. 29.
"I can't believe this. I cannot believe this. We were hit twice. It's not bad enough we got 11 feet of water," said Maria Kay Chetta, a grants manager for New Orleans' Department of Homeland Security. Her own home was not badly damaged, but two homes across the street were hit hard by Thursday's early morning storm — one had the roof ripped off, the other had heavy damage to its front.
Authorities said at least one hurricane-damaged house collapsed and a radio tower was blown down near a major thoroughfare.
"Don't ever ask the question, `what else could happen?'" said Marcia Paul Leoni, a mortgage banker who was surveying the new damage to her Katrina-flooded home.
She would go no farther than the front porch of her house Thursday morning. Windows had blown out and the building appeared to be leaning. "I've been in the mortgage business for 20 years, I know when something's unsafe," she said.
At Louis Armstrong International Airport in the suburb of Kenner, electricity was knocked out and passengers waited in a dimly lit terminal powered by generators.
Wind ripped away a tarp covering a hole made in a concourse roof by Katrina. It also tore away exhaust venting from another roof and blew it through a concourse window, depositing it at a security checkpoint.
A piece of an extendable jetway used to board passengers was torn off and slammed into another jetway. Motorized runway luggage carts were overturned and several windows were blown out.
"There's more damage to the terminal than I saw during the hurricane," airport spokeswoman Michelle Duffourc said. Preparations were under way to move airline operations from the damaged concourse to other areas.
It was unclear whether the damage was the result of tornados or straight-line winds. By mid-morning, the National Weather Service had not determined whether a tornado had hit. The thunderstorm moved at more than 50 mph across the New Orleans region around 2:30 a.m.
from Nola.com
High winds leave heavy damage in hurricane-hit areas
2/2/2006, 9:29 a.m. CT
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A violent thunderstorm hit the hurricane-ravaged New Orleans area early Thursday, undoing repairs and creating new damage at Louis Armstrong International Airport and in the Lakeview neighborhood still reeling five months after Katrina struck Aug. 29.
"I can't believe this. I cannot believe this. We were hit twice. It's not bad enough we got 11 feet of water," said Maria Kay Chetta, a grants manager for New Orleans' Department of Homeland Security. Her own home was not badly damaged, but two homes across the street were hit hard by Thursday's early morning storm — one had the roof ripped off, the other had heavy damage to its front.
Authorities said at least one hurricane-damaged house collapsed and a radio tower was blown down near a major thoroughfare.
"Don't ever ask the question, `what else could happen?'" said Marcia Paul Leoni, a mortgage banker who was surveying the new damage to her Katrina-flooded home.
She would go no farther than the front porch of her house Thursday morning. Windows had blown out and the building appeared to be leaning. "I've been in the mortgage business for 20 years, I know when something's unsafe," she said.
At Louis Armstrong International Airport in the suburb of Kenner, electricity was knocked out and passengers waited in a dimly lit terminal powered by generators.
Wind ripped away a tarp covering a hole made in a concourse roof by Katrina. It also tore away exhaust venting from another roof and blew it through a concourse window, depositing it at a security checkpoint.
A piece of an extendable jetway used to board passengers was torn off and slammed into another jetway. Motorized runway luggage carts were overturned and several windows were blown out.
"There's more damage to the terminal than I saw during the hurricane," airport spokeswoman Michelle Duffourc said. Preparations were under way to move airline operations from the damaged concourse to other areas.
It was unclear whether the damage was the result of tornados or straight-line winds. By mid-morning, the National Weather Service had not determined whether a tornado had hit. The thunderstorm moved at more than 50 mph across the New Orleans region around 2:30 a.m.
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