Seeing the scale of the damage, it is hard to believe that more lives were not lost here, even as the search and rescue effort continues.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerHiding in a fridge as building destroyed
At Chuck's Dairy Bar, a diner on the main road of this small town, perhaps the most miraculous of survival stories, as employees hid in a refrigerator while the tornado passed through. Owner Tracy Harden says:"The lights flickered and someone said 'cooler'. Nine of us rushed in, really quickly."I can't say how long we were in there, but we felt it moving. We were being pushed and shoved between each other.Tracy and Tim Hardin, owners of Chuck's Dairy Bar, survey the tornado destruction to their business in Rolling Fork. Pic: APBut the scars - in the minds, businesses and homes of people in Rolling Fork - will take much longer to heal.
marthakelner We should must develop technology that make holes with a power fill air push through tornado and prevent it getting it bigger and move . We have ways to trap it at one place
marthakelner Terrible.
How awful, quick, give a few more million to Ukraine
So sorry Tracy ,I can imagine how devastating it can be .
Nightmare.
A row of mobile homes opposite her was destroyed? Every cloud..
The touching part was when she mentioned that there was a row of mobile homes across from her shop that are now not there and she asked ' where are all the babies? '
The poor poor lady my thoughts are with you from the Uk
marthakelner Why do they build wooden houses there when they know it suffers form tornadoes?.why not build solid stone houses or brick houses. The only things that would get damaged then is the roof and some windows