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Storms. Earthquakes. Blizzards. Floods. Wildfires. Landslides. United MegaCare is committed to providing relief in times of need. We’ll gladly run toward chaos in order to bring as much peace and comfort as possible.

On March 25, 2023, violent storms and powerful tornadoes ripped through several counties in the southwestern part of Mississippi. At least 26 people lost their lives, dozens more were injured, and entire neighborhoods were demolished. It is communities like this that desperately need our help!

Your giving provides hot meals, transportation assistance to provide rides for the families to shelters and distribution sites, and additional necessities.

Some of those necessities include: clothes, furniture, household items, building supplies, toiletries, water and food

Rolling Fork Mississippi


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The latest: The National Weather Service said Saturday that the deadly tornado which struck the small towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City in southwest Mississippi has been given a preliminary rating of EF-4 — the second highest.

  • An EF-4 rating comes from the Enhanced Fujita scale, which categorizes tornados from 0 to 5, with 5 being the most catastrophic damage.
  • EF-4 tornados have wind speeds between 166 to 200 mph.
  • In a tweet, the agency added that the tornado traveled 59 miles, beginning in Issaquena County and moving northeast toward Holmes County.
  • The tornado was approximately 3/4 a mile wide and lasted for over an hour.
  • Four other tornadoes that hit rural areas across northern Mississippi were given preliminary ratings of EF-1. A rating has not been given to the tornado which struck Amory, Mississippi.
  • After striking Rolling Fork, radar imagery showed tornado debris carried to 25,000 feet, raining down on towns miles ahead of the storm in an indication of the tornado’s intensity.

“Looking to my left and looking to my right, all I see is devastated buildings, flat grounds where physical buildings used to stand,” Walker Eldridge, mayor of Rolling Fork, a town in southwest Mississippi decimated by a wedge tornado, told Fox News. “It’s a terrible situation here.”

 

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