Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves tweeted Saturday that he was on his way to Sharkey County, whose county seat of Rolling Folk was flattened. “Devastating damage — as everyone knows. This is a tragedy.”
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Wonder Bolden was holding her granddaughter, Journey, while standing outside the remnants of her mother’s now-leveled mobile home in Rolling Fork on Saturday morning. Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker told CNN that his town was essentially wiped out. Video shot as daylight broke showed houses reduced to piles of rubble, cars flipped on their sides and trees stripped of their branches. Occasionally, in the midst of the wreckage, a home would be spared, seemingly undamaged.The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado caused damage about 60 miles northeast of Jackson, Mississippi.
Cornel Knight told The Associated Press that he, his wife and their 3-year-old daughter were at a relative’s home in Rolling Fork when the tornado struck. He said the sky was dark but “you could see the direction from every transformer that blew.”
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