The twister flattened entire blocks, obliterated houses, ripped a steeple off a church, and toppled a municipal water tower.
At least 25 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in Mississippi as the massive storm ripped through several towns on its hour-long path Friday night.The twister flattened entire blocks, obliterated houses, ripped a steeple off a church and toppled a municipal water tower.
Other parts of the Deep South were digging out from damage caused by other suspected twisters. One man died in Morgan County, Alabama, the sheriff’s department there said in aMelanie Childs of Amory, Miss., sits on a bucket and holds her two children, Mila, 1, left, and Major, 2, as they view whats left of her grandfather, Barrie Young, home on March 25, 2023.“How anybody survived is unknown by me,” said Rodney Porter, who lives 20 miles south of Rolling Fork.
, many dazed and in shock, as they broke through thickly clustered debris and fallen trees with chain saws, searching for survivors.Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued a state of emergency and vowed to help rebuild as he viewed the damage in a region speckled with wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields and catfish farming ponds.A sheriff’s deputy climbs onto a pile of wind-tossed vehicles to search for survivors in Rolling Fork, Miss., on March 25, 2023.
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