Their neighbors on their street survived, but friends a few blocks away did not make it out, they said. 'If we wouldn't have been in the closet, we wouldn't be here right now,' he said. Kelly Perry and his wife were pinned under debris after their Rolling Fork home was hit by the tornado, Accuweather reported. Kelly Perry and his wife were pinned under debris after their Rolling Fork home was hit Actually seeing people losing their lives over a weather incident.' 'We had to help dead bodies out of the house, so that is very disturbing. 'I thought I was dead,' Rolling Fork resident Shanta Howard told WAPT. Rolling Fork residents came out in full force to help their community - which even meant digging out dead bodies from beneath crushed homes. 'If the rest of the town is like this, there could be hundreds of people killed.' I'm surprised anyone survived,' Brewer told the local paper. 'You look down this street and see the houses. John Brewer and his wife Joyce, neighbors of the Pierce's, were in their home when it the storm hit.īrewer's 27,000-pound 18-wheeler truck was parked next to the house and was picked up by the twister and dropped on Lonnie and Melissa's house, killing them.īrewer said that he discovered his boat trailed had been flung into another neighbor's property, but the boat was found two miles away. All 20 homes on the street - with about 80 residents total - were a complete loss, The Clarion Ledger reported. Seventh Street, where Lonnie and Melissa Pierce lived, was completely destroyed. The tornado devastated a swath of the 2,000-person town of Rolling Fork, reducing homes to piles of rubble and flipping cars on their sides. “I was told they passed away in each others arms.” □ #RollingFork #Mississippitornado /vOgvpyiGPk- Madeleine Nolan March 25, 2023 One man lost his parents after the Rolling Fork tornado dropped an 18-wheeler onto their home. Other survivors helped pull out dead bodies from the debris that has been described as a 'war zone.' The death toll has risen to 26 as the massive tornado ripped through Rolling Fork and other small towns o n its hour-long path. 'I was told they passed away in each other's arms,' he said as tears streamed down his face. Regaining his composure, Brown added that he needed to stay strong for his family and said he felt comfort knowing that 'they are in Heaven right now.' I'm just broken and I'm numb.'īrown said he had wished he had spent more time with his parents the day before they died, adding that he still has to tell his son about what happened. Their heartbroken son David Brown told WAPT as he wept: 'Words cant express how I'm feeling. Lonnie and Melissa Pierce were tragically killed when the vicious twister dropped their neighbor's 18-wheeler on their house in the middle of the night in Rolling Fork. Heartbroken family members are picking up the pieces and mourning their loved ones after massive tornadoes devastated a Mississippi town, killing 26 people including a baby and a couple who died in each other's arms.
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