PAINCOURTVILLE — Baton Rouge FedEx delivery driver Kyra Johnson was filling in last week for a co-worker who had broken his leg and was trying to help him finish his route in Assumption Parish before the bad weather arrived.Johnson, 35, made her delivery at Sagona’s Hardware in Assumption Parish, knowing about the talk of coming bad weather the afternoon of Feb. 23, and was hustling to leave when she saw the funnel cloud in her rearview mirror.“I said, ‘God, that’s a tornado,’ ” Johnson said.Her tale is one of many stories of last-second escapes and miraculous survival of the people who weathered the tornadoes, including some who attribute their salvation to a blessing from a higher power.The EF-3 tornado, which was bearing down on Sagona Hardware along La. 1 in Paincourtville, was in the process of ripping a 21-mile path 300 to 350 yards wide through Assumption and St. James parishes with winds reaching 140 mph in Convent, eventually killing two in a RV park and injuring countless others.[credit: David Sagona / licensing@viralhog.com]