Latasha Myles and Howard Anderson stand in their living room where they were sitting when the roof blew off around 2:30 a.m. as Hurricane Laura passed through the area in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Powerful gusts blew out windows in tall buildings in Lake Charles, blew off roofs and took down trees and powerlines from the coast to more than 100 miles inland. Its just destruction everywhere,`` said Brett Geymann, who rode out the storm with three family members in Moss Bluff, near Lake Charles. John Bel Edwards reported Louisianas first fatality -- a 14-year-old girl who died when a tree fell on her home in Leesville, more than 100 miles inland. Scroll through the photos above to see some of the first images of damage after the sun came up Thursday.