Last year, three tornadoes raced across Ouachita Parish, leaving homes demolished, trees uprooted and dozens of families displaced.
Ouachita Parish Homeland Security Director Neal Brown said looking at the damage alone would make you think there must have been an unthinkable number of injuries, even some fatalities. But no injuries were reported in the area.
On a normal Easter Sunday, people would be gathered at churches, eating at restaurants and celebrating the holiday with parties and egg hunts.
No one ever wants to call COVID-19 a good thing, he said, but people being shut in their homes with food and not out traveling might have helped prevented catastrophic injuries and deaths, said Brown.