Daily Mail/AP: Apocalyptic scenes in Louisiana and New Orleans after four huge tornadoes flip cars and trash homes
* The National Weather Service says it has confirmed four tornadoes that have touched down in southern Louisiana
* Damage was reported late Tuesday morning in and around New Orleans as severe storms battered Louisiana
* Structural damage was also reported following a confirmed tornado north of Lake Pontchartrain
* New Orleans East is home to at least 65,000 residents, down from 95,000 prior to Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the area in 2005
* New Orleans East is a neighborhood in the city's Ninth Ward
Parts of eastern New Orleans are looking like a disaster area following a line of severe weather that blew through the city on Tuesday morning.
An enormous storm flipped over cars, tore the roofs off homes, ripped through a gas station canopy, broke tall power poles off their foundations, and left a couch resting improbably on a pile of debris in the middle of a road.
Hail as big as ping-pong balls was observed near Kenner, Louisiana. More than 10,000 homes and businesses lost power in southeastern Louisiana because of the storms.
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