Severe weather in the South
Storms systems killed at least five people on the East Coast on Wednesday, February 24, 2016, four from tornadoes, and brought heavy snow that canceled hundreds of flights in the Midwest. That brought the death toll from two days of severe weather to at least eight.
In this photo from Thursday, Feb. 24, a mobile home shows significant damage after an apparent tornado ripped through Waverly.
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Director of Emergency Operations for St. James Parish Blaise Gravois talks on the phone at Sugar Hill RV Park following a storm in Convent, La., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.
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Wreckage of the Sugar Hill RV Park lies scattered following a storm in Convent, Louisiana, Feb. 24, 2016.
Tornadoes and severe weather ripped through the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, mangling trailers at an RV park, ripping off roofs from buildings in Louisiana and Mississippi, authorities said.
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Tornadoes ripped through an RV park in Louisiana and significantly damaged nearly 100 homes and apartments in Florida, and forecasters warned that more twisters were possible Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, as the deadly storm system moved to the East Coast.
In this photo, wreckage covers the grounds of a mobile home park a day after it was hit by a tornado in Convent, Louisiana, Feb. 24, 2016, in an aerial photo provided by the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
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At the RV park in Convent, Louisiana, CBS News found a story of survival.
Forty-eight-year-old Barbara Posey's story even she can't believe, after a tornado took her into the sky.
"I felt stuff hitting the trailer or the RV. Kept feeling stuff hitting the RV. And then next thing I know I went forward, and next thing I know it was daylight," she explained. "I was riding around and around and around and then I didn't realized until later what it was. It was an electrical box I was riding on."
Her RV now looks like scrap mixed among a mangle of personal treasures.
You can read and watch her story, here.
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An apparent tornado rips through Evergreen, Virginia, in Appomattox County on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.
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In Waverly, Virginia, debris was seen strewn through the streets, trees were downed and there was significant damage to homes.
This photo from Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, shows significant structural damage in Waverly after an apparent tornado ripped through.
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Cortez Shelby, left, helps his uncle load belongings from a garage that had the roof ripped off by severe weather the day before in LaPlace, La., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.
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This photo from Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, shows significant structural damage in Waverly, Virginia, after an apparent tornado ripped through.
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Harold Palmer, right, surveys the damage to his home with neighbor Marcos Antonio after a tornado ripped shingles off his roof, tore limbs from a tree and damaged three cars in his driveway in LaPlace, La., Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016.
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This photo from Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, shows significant structural damage in Waverly, Virginia, including to a car, after an apparent tornado ripped through.
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A possible tornado ripped a wall from a Gold's Gym in Prairieville, Louisiana, on Tuesday, February 23, 2016.
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This photo from Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, shows an overturned car in Waverly, Virginia, after an apparent tornado caused significant damage to the town.
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This photo from Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, shows an overturned car in Waverly, Virginia, after an apparent tornado ripped through.
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This photo from Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, shows damage to a car in Waverly, Virginia, after an apparent tornado caused severe damage.
Wreckage is seen at a mobile home park a day after it was hit by a tornado, in Convent, Louisiana February 24, 2016 in a photo provided by the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Several tornadoes lashed southern Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 as the storms destroyed dozens of homes and businesses and toppled a water tower, weather and emergency officials said. Hardest hit in Louisiana was the Mississippi River hamlet of Convent, where 90 percent of the estimated 160 mobile homes at the Sugar Hill trailer park were demolished, state police superintendent Colonel Mike Edmonson told a news conference. REUTERS/Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness/Handout via Reuters FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - RTX28F2A