Devastating accounts of utter destruction, incredible survival and tragic deaths emerge following the deadly twister that surged nearly 274 kilometres across the United States' deep south.
as it surged nearly 274km across the country's deep south.
A child's Shrek doll lay face down in the dirt next to a pile of broken plywood and branches, close to a busted-up refrigerator with its back torn clean off.Outside the wall of what used to be a house, a bike lay upside down in another pile of debris. Christin George said her parents and grandmother narrowly escaped when the tornado blew out the windows and ripped off part of the roof of their home.
"It just got calm and all of sudden everything just — like a big old train or something coming through," she said, adding that much of her belongings weren't salvageable.That same fear gripped residents of Rolling Fork, about 48km away, as the twister flatted the town of just under 2,000 people.James Hancock was helping with search-and-rescue efforts in Rolling Fork late on Friday as the storm tore through town.
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