Michael Baiamonte took shelter with family members in a closet in their home as the strongest tornado to hit the New Orleans area in five years took direct aim at his neighborhood. "It was crazy," he told the Clarion Herald, New Orleans' archdiocesan newspaper. "It was over in four Hail Marys. That's how I know. It took me four Hail Marys from the time we got in that closet." The tornado ripped through several Arabi neighborhoods March 22, killing one man, destroying 40 homes and severely damaging more than 100 others in neighborhoods submerged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.