“It was a mobile home to a lot of people,” he said, picking up an old baseball mitt of his that he found lying in a puddle. “But it was home.”
Even before the EF4 tornado sliced through the town Friday night, the community faced immense challenges. For decades now, Rolling Fork and Sharkey County have been hemorrhaging residents. The small town, with a population of 2,000, is surrounded on all sides by fields of corn, soybeans, rice and cotton.
“I thought we were going to die in the house,” she said. “It seemed like it was never going to stop. I just kept thinking, ‘Please lord, let it stop, I just can’t wait for it to stop.’” On Sunday morning, one of the home’s bedrooms was exposed to Hoyt Street, a mattress and bed frame jutting out the side of the house. The roof, windowpanes and front door are missing, and the walls are collapsed. He was able to salvage two dressers, a couple of bookshelves, a kitchen table and four chairs. But most of Warfield’s four-bedroom, double-wide mobile home has been reduced to debris.
This is terribly sad. Tragic even.
How can we blame racism?
Horrific
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Remember folks: Wapo tells some little (people tragedy) truth so they can lie about the big stuff (paid for info)
God help them all. This is so sad and devastating for the people of RollingFork Best Wishes from Scotland
Its sad. hopefully, they get up and pull themselves up without any government help.
So sad and unimaginable. My condolences to all who lost someone they love🙏🏽 I hop we come to an end with climate change and it’s unpredictable and intensified disasters.
Hard to fathom how you have a home, neighbours, a town, and in minutes so much is just gone.