{"id":329,"date":"2023-03-25T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T15:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=329"},"modified":"2023-03-25T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T15:31:47","slug":"at-least-23-dead-in-mississippi-after-tornado-night-of-terror-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/at-least-23-dead-in-mississippi-after-tornado-night-of-terror-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 23 Dead in Mississippi after Tornado Night of Terror &#8211; Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Terrible news out of Mississippi this morning, with at least 23 people dead and more injured or missing after a night of devastating storms. From the middle of the state Northeast towards Alabama, a tornado tore through multiple towns, flattening the county seat town of Rolling Fork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please keep the people of Rolling Fork, Mississippi in your prayers. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<br><br>The Governor of MS reported that over 23 Mississippians were killed in the tornado last night.<br><br>Absolutely tragic.<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U12sobcK9F\">pic.twitter.com\/U12sobcK9F<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alex Bruesewitz \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@alexbruesewitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexbruesewitz\/status\/1639630636087476224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi, obliterating dozens of buildings and leaving an especially devastating mark on a rural town whose mayor declared, \u201cMy city is gone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in a Twitter post that search and rescue teams from local and state agencies were deployed to help victims impacted by the tornadoes. The agency confirmed early Saturday that 23 people had died, four were missing and dozens were injured.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A few minutes later, the agency warned the casualty toll could go higher, tweeting: \u201cUnfortunately, these numbers are expected to change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves tweeted Saturday that he was on his way to Sharkey County, whose county seat of Rolling Folk was flattened. \u201cDevastating damage \u2014 as everyone knows. This is a tragedy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado caused damage about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of Jackson, Mississippi. The rural towns of Silver City and Rolling Fork reported destruction as the tornado swept northeast at 70 mph (113 kph) without weakening, racing towards Alabama through towns, including Winona and Amory, into the night. . . . <\/em><\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tornado-texas-severe-weather-mississippi-valley-65e553e6358b56b2630ff5c588850505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear God\u2026..there\u2019s nothing left. Help Mississippi \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oak44yyabv\">pic.twitter.com\/oak44yyabv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DogRightGirl\/status\/1639596862318731264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/wavybreeze4111\/status\/1639493637510766592\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrible news out of Mississippi this morning, with at least 23 people dead and more injured or missing after a night of devastating storms. From the middle of the state Northeast towards Alabama, a tornado tore through multiple towns, flattening the county seat town of Rolling Fork. Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of the Deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","category-severe-weather","category-tornadoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}