LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Five years ago, Hurricane Laura changed the landscape of Southwest Louisiana. The storm made ...

Flooding and more tornadoes were possible Friday as the leftovers of the once fearsome Category 4 hurricane, now a tropical depression, move eastward.

ABC13's Ted Oberg experienced Hurricane Laura head-on as 132 mph winds ripped through Lake Charles after the storm's landfall in nearby Cameron, Louisiana.

The family made it through Laura, but it was the events in the aftermath that claimed members of two generations.

Officials begged residents to evacuate ahead of Laura. But those who didn't leave should put their vital information in a plastic bag and pray.