The powerful weather system, accompanied by thunderstorms and driving rain, cut a path of more than 100 miles across the state late Friday, slamming several towns along the way.
In Rolling Fork, home to fewer than 2,000 people, an entire row of houses and buildings was demolished, leaving only scattered debris. Cars were overturned, fences ripped up and trees uprooted.Some 4,800 customers were without power in Mississippi, and nearly 11,000 homes and businesses remained in the dark in neighboring Alabama, monitor poweroutage.us reported.
Resident Shanta Howard described to local TV how members of the community had to help remove the dead from the wreckage. Eddie Jones repairs a window on his damaged house in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, after the area was hit by a tornadoSearch and rescue operations were underway in Sharkey County, home to Rolling Fork -- about 60 miles northwest of the state capital Jackson -- and neighboring counties.
President Joe Biden called the images from Mississippi"heartbreaking" and vowed to put federal resources at the state's disposal.
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