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.
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(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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So sad..If only people knew…That is all I will say about this tragedy..!!
There’s a YouTube channel “Ryan Hall Y’all” who is a meterologist who covers these events. He livestreamed 8 hours last night while these tornados and violent weather went on. He was in touch with 6 storm chasers who provided real time info and video and acted as first responders to help out with rescue efforts immediately after tragedy struck. Ryan’s viewers donated over $108,000 towards recovery efforts in MS via his YouTube channel. Ryan is heading to MS today and is coordinating his efforts with local emergency managers and non-profits. The link below is to his YouTube channel livestream from last night.
https://www.youtube.com/live/xMhSRs2A-Nk?feature=share
He was pretty upset last night because the weather services were slow to issue warnings
Ryan Hall Y’all is my go to when weather is dicey, good tip Linda!
Ryan Hall is fantastic. Much better than the National Weather Service.
Some people know.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/air-force-bombshell-admits-they-can-control-weather-haarp/
I’ve seen this kind of destruction firsthand. It’s mind-numbing. Pray for those involved. I have.
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen.
Rino Ron is the type of guy that is a ladder shaker. Shake people off so he gets to the top.
I lived in Fl at the time of covid. I didn’t realize how much RON was undermining Trump the whole time.
What a loser!!
Please post this on the Open or Presidential thread. It does NOT belong here.
Thank you.
It is an easy mistake to make.. no worries..
I frequently do that so….from one offender to another…Seabee4Trump, your ok.
Thank you Aggiegirl, we all make mistakes, Seabee4Trump, no problem with your error. Have a good day.
The problem I have is with those who jump in to criticize when they are not moderators and haven’t been given that authority?
“The problem I have is with those who jump in to criticize when they are not moderators and haven’t been given that authority?”
When people jump in to help people who are lost and don’t know where they are It’s perfectly acceptable to me.
I wish more people would do it. I would just say thank you.
PS,I’ve never been to Mississippi .
I appreciate the first hand knowledge of people who have lived there .
I would love to visit some day.
Amen
Praying along with you.
My goodness, how awful for these residents. Lord, please help them.
Amen.
Amen and amen.
Lord, have mercy.
Father in Heaven,
I humbly pray for the souls lost in this devastating disaster. I pray they are delivered into Your Kingdom where they will be welcomed with everlasting peace, joy, and fullness of body and Spirit. I pray comfort on their family, friends, and neighbors left behind that they will seek solace under Your Loving and Sheltering Wings (Psalm 91).
Father, we trust in You for You are Trustworthy.
Grant us the peace that surpasses all understanding and help us to bind together and surround our brothers and sisters with our presence in the midst of their sorrows. We mourn and rejoice together on this Tree.
In Jesus’s Holy and Saving Name, AMEN
Amen
And I pray there was little pain for those who passed on to Heaven.
Amen.
Amen!
Amen
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Amen!
Prayers for all down there…
“for the sake of Your sorrowful Passion have Mercy on them (and the whole world)….”
The pictures of the devastation truly leave a huge empty space in my chest….I can’t find the right words for the prayers so “Thank you, Sundance”. You say it so perfectly.
Amen
Amen! Especially the case for my fellow Mississippians in Rolling Fork.
Amen, and I thank you too Sundance.
Amen.
snap.
God Bless them.
Amen.
Sundance, that is one of the nicest prayers and it says everything I was trying to verbalize for those people. All I can add is Amen.
Such destruction. Lord, bless them, please help them, and give comfort and strength to all. Amen.
Amen
May the Savior be with them all during these trying times.
Rolling Fork is not a big or wealthy area.
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/rolling-fork-ms
Wikipedia differs on the population…so its somewhere around 1800 to 2350 give or take.
Median income about 37k. Median age about 35. Little production, a lot of service type industry.
Isn’t it “always the way”?
Wouldn’t wish this on anyone, but when’s the last time a major “natural disaster” devastated Beverly hills, or Martha’s vineyard or other elite enclaves?
Interesting
Dutchman, in New England, we had Hurricane Irene. It was supposed to made a direct hit on Manhattan. My parents live due north east of Manhattan in the Greylock range of the Berkshires in Western Mass.
I remember attempting, I now believe with God’s guiding hand, navigating a three hour drive back to the Merrimack Valley, a perilous misadventure that crossed a torrent at the top of a mountain road en route the Deerfield Valley with my daughters in the car, a mistake I would never want to repeat.
Manhattan was spared, by God’s hand, or, some other agency? Rather, the storm shifted about 30-50 miles east of Manhattan into the Deerfield Valley in Northern Massachusetts and much of Southern Vermont and the entire Route 100 valley in Central Vermont were laid to waste.
Here is the official gov retelling:
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/new-england-water-science-center/science/remembering-tropical-storm-irene-new-england
Later, I became aware of HAARP and the Gates of Hell geo-engineering-eugenics research, though even then in 2011, I had a gut feeling about that harrowing experience.
Call me cynical , though the blossoming of ‘Vermont Strong’ bumper stickers in the wake of Irene were the tell-tale sign, that just like Boston after the Marathon psy-op, the Deerfield Valley of Massachusetts and Vermont got ‘Stronged’ with massive physical destruction.
Where is weather weaponry or geo-engineering research taking place in the Southeast?
God bless everyone who has been subjected to the path of this storm.
I see the hand of God in this weather. Man thinks he can control everything all of the time but God is truly in control of weather.
California is underwater right now. Do not know how much water affected Beverly Hills. Some very expensive homes have slid down cliffs but I am sure the taxpayers are on the hook for those.
CA farmland is sitting in water. Good for the aquifer but crops will have to be replanted. The workers living in the towns around are struggling.
When was California’s last major earthquake?
In the early morning of December 20th, 2022, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck a few miles off the coast of Northern California, followed by at least a dozen smaller aftershocks.
The quake was about 10 miles southwest of Ferndale, California, in Humboldt County.
Two people were killed and seventeen injured.
That area of Humboldt County had a smaller shaking last week. I know this area well as my Dad was a small boy in 1906 when the big one, the so-called San Francisco earthquake struck, and he related stories about the damage near his family home/ranch in Petrolia, Humboldt Co which was hit also.
Dad graduated from Ferndale Union High School in 1917. People used to think it was the San Andreas fault that was “at fault” for this, but more recent earthquake research shows that the Cascadia plate is what’s producing these “shakes” in N. California and up into OR, and the plates there are in very strong contrast.
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.
Amen
God help the survivors and bless the dead.
Amen.
Amen
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Oh my word. Those poor people. 😞
On the news this morning the Cajun Navy is already there helping
with supplies, search and rescue etc. I thought they pretty much did
only boat rescues in floods. Good for them getting there so quick.
Frustrated here in Seattle. Went to donate and there are too many Cajun Navy web sites. Have no idea which is legit. Thanks to anyone who might provide a link.
Our denomination has a disaster relief fund. If you are affiliated with a church, you might check with them.
Same here, Pat.
What a comfort it is to belong to a church that actively helps those in need, an entity one trusts to use donations for their stated purpose.
http://www.thecajunnavy.org/
I think this is the one , this one has a phone number you can
call. So you could probably verify..
No doubt, Samaritans Purse is either there or packing/gearing up to go.
I worked moving peoples belongings after the Xenia tornado.
I cannot do that for these folks.
Donated just now. Not much but I hope it helps.
Together, many doing a little become mighty. God bless.
Thanks for a better perspective. 🙂
Indeed. Saw Franklin Graham earlier on a news broadcast
Prayers for them all.
Horrendous!!
In Greenbay we were blessed. We are on the cold end of this storm. 8 inches so far. I was tracking this system on radar and from the amount of lightning and heavy rain I knew it would be severe own there. God bless these people. I certainly won’t whine about my shoveling and snowbling. Snow still coming down hard
Still coming down in SE WI too. About 10” here but we’re able to dig ourselves out.
God bless the people of MS & hold them close to your heart.
Amen
This is so sad. Seeing the destruction that the tornado caused, is there any place in a home that a person or family can go to try and survive a tornado of that strength when it hits? Praying for all those people, seems like the worst tornados always hit at night and people don’t see them coming.
Unfortunately, MS and other southern states don’t have basements (at least not very many). There are tornado shelters that can be put underground. Our relatives in OK had one underneath their garage floor.
Every trailer park should have several tornado shelters…I heard at least one park was wiped out yesterday.
We did have one in our Memphis home, ca. 1977-1979.
There is terror in the roar of the wind in the night. In hearing the impending catastrophe. Amen to your prayers.
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Amen and Amen!
Amen.
Amen.
Such devastation. 🙏
Oh, my Dear Jesus, have mercy.
Sundance, I just posted your prayer on my FB page – giving credit to “The Last Refuge newsletter by Sundance.” I hope that’s ok! I think it’s a wonderful prayer for when we wonder what in the world we can do to help victims of tragedies! Thank you!
AMEN!
Prayers for all involved
Amen.
Amen.
In Jesus name. Amen!
A stark reminder of how small we are in our universe.
Tomorrow is promised to no one. But eternity is forever; have you accepted Jesus Christ and his loving sacrifice and consequent Resurrection as your Lord and Savior?
There but for the grace of God …
Lovely and needed prayer Sundance.
Safe in south Mississippi…prayers of gratitude and peace.
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I spent several hours in Joplin, Missouri in May 2011, while driving cross-country to visit my mom in hospice, just a few days after a monster tornado leveled their town; the magnitude of damage I’ve seen in the Rolling Fork, Mississippi drone videos this morning is EXACTLY what Joplin looked like in the immediate aftermath of that storm.
I walked through the remains of several neighborhoods during my visit to Joplin. As with anything else, pictures and video don’t truly convey the enormity of the devastation. Several times I simply stopped, mouth agape, unable to process what I was seeing.
There were dozens of families sifting through the rubble of their homes, hoping to find something – anything- of value that the tornado hadn’t whisked away. I stopped in front of one home, where perhaps a half-dozen people were painstakingly sorting through a mountain of rubble and debris.
I made eye contact with a man whom I assume was the patriarch of the family. I wanted to say something comforting, but I was unable to speak. I think he understood. After a moment of sad silence between us, he got back to digging.
I was humbled by what I saw in Joplin.
Fast forward to today. My wife and I are currently traveling in our RV, enjoying our retirement years (as best we can, considering the war currently being waged for the heart and soul of our country). We just spent five wonderful months in Florida, and are currently on our way to the Midwest.
We had several routing options after departing Pensacola the other day, and the most “efficient” route would have taken us through Jackson, Mississippi yesterday, not too awful far from…….Rolling Fork.
But, for reasons I can’t fully explain, I opted to route us due west from Pensacola instead, through Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and we spent a bumpy, but ultimately safe, night in Shreveport, having successfully skirted the bottom-side of yesterday’s storm.
Dear Lord: Thank you for your many continued blessings. Thank you for watching over my wife and I yesterday. Please comfort those who are suffering so much sorrow and loss this morning here in the deep South.
God bless America.
~ EM
PS to Sundance:
Thank you for the lovely, heartfelt prayer.
Amen.
God bless all who perished, and uplift those who need to rebuild.
Amen. Thank you, Sundance.
Praying 🙏
Amen
Amen.