Complex sentence: He, his family and his father as well as his efforts to bring pro baseball to southern Mississippi were severely rocked by Hurricane Katrina which devastated the Mississippi coast and Lyons' home in 2005.
Split into simpler sentences: He, his family and his father as well as his efforts to bring pro baseball to southern Mississippi were severely rocked by Hurricane Katrina. The storm devastated the Mississippi coast and Lyons' home in 2005.