Mississippi community looks to pick up the pieces after devastation caused by tornado

ROLLING FORK, Miss. — Mississippi families are devastated after a tornado ravaged their community.

“My community, it is gone,” Rolling Fork Mayor Eldridge Walker told CNN.

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Destruction and devastation across the small town of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, very little is left of the town just miles from the Louisiana border.

““It’s like a bomb went off. It’s total devastation,” one neighbor said.

The survivors of the damage are sharing their stories of survival, including a 9-year-old boy.

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“I had to dive in a tub to take cover. It was just scary. But my mom had to hold the door closed. We were all in there. I felt like the tornado was just pushing me, and pulling, and I was scared,” the boy said.

The tornado traveled all the way across the state. As our sister station in Tupelo tracked the tornado, their meteorologist stopped to pray.

“Dear Jesus, please help them,” the meteorologist said.

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Others are just in shock.

“We don’t know who’s, who’s alive and who’s gone and just, just trying to hold it together.”

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