Its residents live with the risk of flooding should the backwater levees along the Yazoo fail.Ībout 30 percent of the residences in Sharkey County are mobile homes or housing other than homes or apartments, according to a 2021 survey by the federal Census Bureau. Rolling Fork is a town of about 2,000 in the Mississippi Delta nestled between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers that was home to the blues singer Muddy Waters. “The town took a direct hit,” he said, adding that it had taken ambulances at least 30 minutes to arrive in Rolling Fork because the area is so rural. Rigsby said, he went door to door through the town, rescuing people who were trapped in their vehicles or homes, including a woman who had been buried by rubble. Aaron Rigsby, a videographer and storm chaser who filmed the tornado, said in an interview that he had watched it develop from a “small cone” into a “massive wedge.”Īfter the tornado hit Rolling Fork, Mr.
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