The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) reported earlier today that at least 23 people were killed last night as a massive tornado hit multiple small towns. Their latest statement reads, “Unfortunately, these numbers are expected to change.” Search and recovery efforts are underway.
All Treepers in the region please check in and let us know your status in the comment section.
(Via ABC) – At least 23 people died as a “destructive” tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippi late Friday, leaving a trail of damage for more than 100 miles, local and federal authorities said.
Search and rescue operations were underway in Sharkey and Humphreys counties, Mississippi’s Emergency Management Agency said late Friday. The agency issued a series of tornado warnings in counties throughout the state.
[…] Thirteen people died in Sharkey County, Coroner Angelia Easton told ABC News, adding that she could not yet confirm their ages. Carroll County Coroner Mark Stiles said three people had died. Another two were dead in Monroe County, Coroner Alan Gurley said. Jose Watson, a Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper, said one person died in Silver City, in Humphreys County. (read more)
It looks like the town of Rolling Fork has been hit hard. Rolling Fork is a small Mississippi town of about 2,000 people in Sharkey County. It was the birthplace of the blues singer Muddy Waters and sits between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Silver City also looks to have taken a direct hit and the area damage is described as catastrophic.
First Light of Rolling Fork Mississippi after a Violent #Tornado last night. #mswx @SevereStudios @MyRadarWX pic.twitter.com/NG0YcI3TQn
— Jordan Hall (@JordanHallWX) March 25, 2023
"Unfathomable Devastation": At Least 23 Dead After Tornado Tears Through Mississippi https://t.co/kIQh2adTgr
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 25, 2023
Unfortunately, these numbers are expected to change. https://t.co/XTGNJUxw3W
— msema (@MSEMA) March 25, 2023
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Grace and Peace to them all. Amen.
AMEN.
Amen 🥺
Amen.
Gracious Lord, Protect your children from the temptations to which they are susceptible when facing sickness and trials — and unimaginable devastation of property and homes.
Keep them from challenging your goodness; keep them from drowning in self-pity.
Focus them on your unconditional love for them and your unchanging goodness.
Steer them away from their suffering, so that they see in their hardship (and sorrow) an opportunity to be your witness and to bring you glory by their humble submission of it and to You, whose will is that all things work together for good to those who love You.
Grant us strength to persevere.
I see no one in Mississippi has checked in.
That speaks volumes.
I posted this as a reponse on the first page but am repeating it.
I do not live in Mississippi, but have close ties having lived in Memphis most of my life, although not now.
I have close relatives 10 miles south of Rolling Fork. One of my best friends is from there, but has been gone many years and no longer has family there. My relatives farm 8,000 acres. It’s a huge farming area, corn, soybeans, some cotton, and catfish and all the related ag businesses. I have been unable to contact my relatives due to power outages.
The town is unrecognizable from the videos I’ve seen.
Thank you, Sundance, for the beautiful prayer.
So sorry for your family’s and friends’ loss. Crossing my fingers and hoping hard for them.
Love
Thanks for your update ncbird
I know how worried you must be. Prayers up for your family members. God bless them and you at this terrible time.
I am in agreement Lord, Praying and praising in the name of Your Son and my Co-heir, Jesus Christ..
Muddy Waters:
My prayers and my DONATIONS will go to Samaritans Purse, as I know they will have people there helping wherever help is needed.
I was in Joplin MO, years ago after it got hit, and my sister in law, and myself couldn’t find her daughters house, nor a nephews house.
From the videos, this looks a LOT WORSE than Joplin did, and Joplin was awful!
The pictures remind me of Greensburg, Kansas. They were hit years ago by a massive tornado. It struck at 10 pm which made it almost impossible for the “spotters” to track. The death and destruction was horrendous. Greensburg was almost wiped off the map. It took years to make somewhat of a recovery. The trees still show signs of the massive storm damage.
Praying for them to be strengthened and to make a full recovery, physically, mentally, and spiritually.
God bless our neighbors in Mississippi.
Amen
Thanks for your prayers
I have a legitimate question, is anyone else curious as to why/how the streets are completely clear of debris already? As a trained CERT volunteer (Citizens Emergency Response Training, a division under FEMA’s direction), I would not expect this at this early stage. Prayers for all in Jesus’ name.
Jmeryl ,
I just watched this video :
posted by J X on page 1 of the comments here and I have the same question about the streets being clear of debris (?)
My heart is broken by the deaths and devastation ,
Prayers Up for All .
Could it all have blown away at the point of contact on the ground?
Thats scary as hell , if true.
Prayers and love sent to this beautiful part of Mississippi. May God’s grace comfort you all. Amen
Amen.
I live about 30 minutes from the MS border. Most all tv shows were blocked to storm coverage. I could see the wind on the tv. It was bad. This town is 78 percent black.
I’m wondering if the SPLC, BLM, and the urban league will be coming with bulldozers, hotel stays, makeshift military tents, food, water and medical supply.
I won’t hold my breath. These poor blacks are not the kind of blacks they like. These are hard working poor christian blacks.
As bad as this tornado was, I want to bring everyone’s attention to the fact we ALL dodged a bullet on March 12 and basically the mainstream media has ignored that. Maybe because it simply too scary to report or contemplate. You see.on March 12th, there was a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) on the opposite side of the sun that could have devastated our entire civilization. It missed us by just about a week (the time it would taken for that portion of the sun to rotate towards the earth).
To give you an idea of how dangerous CMEs could be to us, consider that in 1859, a CME induced geomagnetic storm (The Carrington Event) shorted out telegraphs across the US. It produced auroras in Hawaii. There was a false dawn that caused farmers and animals to think the sun was coming up hours before it would. Were a CME the power of the Carrington Event to hit the earth today, it would bring down the internet, damage satellites, and knock out power across the US and much of the world for several weeks at least.
Consider the fact that a CME induced geomagnetic storm one third the size of the Carrington Event occurred in Quebec in 1989 and caused the electrical grid of the whole province to collapse for 9 hours. The power system in New Jersey was even affected. CMEs that size are apparently quite common. The years 1582, 1730, 1903, 1909, 1921, 1938, 1972, 1991 and 2001 all saw geomagnetic storms comparable to that one. In fact, in March of 2001, two CMEs the size of the Quebec Event hit the earth. The first caused auroras in Mexico. Then the second arrived and quenched the first. Lucky for us because that probably saved damage to the electrical grid.
A CME the size of the Carrington Event would not only produce power outages lasting weeks, if not months, it would short out any electronics that were plugged into the electrical grid. It would be an unparalleled disaster, probably ending modern civilization as we know it for many years.. Experts say it would cause more damage (dollar wise) than the top 10 natural disasters COMBINED … many trillions of dollars in damage! And Carrington sized events aren’t all that uncommon either.
A Carrington sized CME took place in 2012, but it too, fortunately, occurred on the side of the sun facing away from us. In fact, experts now estimate there’s a 4-12% chance of a Carrington sized in the next 10 years! It isn’t a matter of if but when … in the near future.
But here’s the really scary part. The Carrington Event was not the biggest CME caused geomagnetic storm that can occur. Scientists say the March 12 CME that missed use by a week was ten to a hundred times more power of the Carrington Event. It was a MEGA sized CME. It would have been a civilization ending event, destroying our electrical system to such an extent that it might not recover before chaos ensued. And these events aren’t overly rare either.
From Ice Core samples, scientists have been able to determine another occurred in AD 774. It’s called the Miyake Event. They know it was bigger than the Carrington Event because CMEs produce cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere which produce carbon 14 down on the earth’s surface. Scientists have measured the amount of C14 cause by the Carrington and Miyake events. The Miyake event produced 12 times as much!
In fact, every solar cycle there’s a not-insignificant chance of a large CME. And 2025 is the peak of the latest cycle so don’t breathe a sigh of relief yet. The 2024 election may not be the biggest disaster we face right now. The chance of a CME in the next few years is even higher than now! And sooner or later, our luck is going to run out because, like election cheating, we’re still ignoring it. We’re more focused on nonsense like climate change and dark matter. We’re living on hopium.
In truth, there’s nothing we can do about it. Short of putting every thing electronic in a faraday cage, this world works 24 hours a day. I don’t think any level of preparation will keep anyone safe or healthy for long in a civilization ending event like that.
True, there’s little any one us could do currently to save the whole shebang. On an individual level, those who prepped for such an event would be far better off than those who did not. Even installing surge protection for various important pieces of equipment in your house might prevent a lot of the damage that would result from a less than really big CME. Prepping might also put you at the head of the line to survive the consequences of a bigger one. The challenge in that case would be survive long enough that those who did not prep for it are gone and no longer causing trouble. After that would come the rebuilding phase, and again, those who prepped for it might be far better off.
Taking a longer view on things, however, and looking beyond the end of our nose, there are things we could do AS A GROUP for our civilization to survive such an event. One thing is to get our civilization spread around the solar system in such a way that enough portions of it, and the technology it’s based one, would survive to help the rest recover. We should all be working towards that eventually. Worrying about Climate Change, Dark Matter, WOKE politics and fighting endless wars isn’t helping in that regard. Maybe we’ll be lucky and someone like Musk will manage to do what the government and political parties apparently will not do. Yea! for private enterprise.
But in the meantime, as a group, we could be doing such things as building a strategic transformer reserve” and installing equipment to protect large power transformers. In fact, the Foundation for Resilient Societies has estimated that protecting the US electrical grid against both geomagnetic and EMP events would cost about ten to thirty billion dollars a year over ten years (https://www.resilientsocieties.org/uploads/5/4/0/0/54008795/estimating_the_cost_of_protecting_the_u.s._electric_grid_from_electromagnetic_pulse.pdf ). That is peanuts in the scope of things. Protecting only against geomagnetic events would cost less … perhaps a few percent of the above. Yet even that hasn’t happened. We should be asking why? There really are no rational or good excuses at this point.
If a civilization ending asteroid were found to be on a collision course with a possible impact in 10 years, I would expect the government to take the threat seriously and begin a crash effort to prevent it. A big CME could be just as bad for civilization. Is it too much to expect a similar crash effort to protect civilization from the worst of its effects? I say no. I much rather put money into that than in prolonging the Ukraine War.
Beautiful prayer. Thank you. Amen. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I’m in north central Mississippi. The storm passed over with gusty winds, lots of lightning and thunder and heavy rain. My daughter 30 miles west, got hail. We were under tornado warnings for about an hour, sirens went off once. It ended at about 0100. We lost internet for a time but kept power.
I thank our Father for keeping us safe last night.
I live in North Mississippi. We had a tornado warning last night at seven but only had some wind and rain. People in our small town donated items-water,tarps, etc- and a guy I know is delivering the items. It is terrible. Sadly bodies are being recovered. Some people said they had no warning. My phone gave an alert, but their EMA may not have. Prayers to those affected by the storm! We had a tornado hit our house a few years ago in December, but we only had property damage, which can be replaced.
This tornado’s path was a straight across the entire state. Sharkey and Humphries counties (Silver City and Rolling Fork) are in the western edge of the state bordering the Mississippi River. Carroll county (Winona) is in the central part, and Monroe county (Amory) borders Alabama. This tornado was unspeakably large and caused unspeakable amounts of destruction. Please pray for all the victims.
Donald J. Trump at it again. !!!!