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Buras (United States) (AFP) - In southern Louisiana, where most things are surrounded by water, residents are being forced to buy bottled water to drink, bathe and even give to their pets. Salt water is creeping up the drought-hit Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico, and residents of the delta basin are feeling forgotten. "Our water started having a very funny taste" in May, explains 68-year-old Cathy Vodopija. "When you wash your clothes, it’s like bleached whatever you were washing -- without putting bleach in it." For the second straight year, water levels in the mighty river that cu...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Rolling Fork, Mississippi on March 31, a week after it was devastated by a tornado that ripped through the southern state, killing at least 25 people. "The President and the First Lady will visit with first responders, state and local officials, and communities impacted by the devastation from recent storms, survey recovery efforts, and reaffirm their commitment to supporting the people of Mississippi as long as it takes," the White House said in a statement. The weather system, mixed with thunderstorms and driving ...
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Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - As the thunder roared outside and the lights inside Chuck's Dairy Bar began to blink, owner Tracy Harden realized the tornado conditions forecasted for her small Mississippi town Friday night were far more severe than she realized. "Cooler!" yelled out Harden, and she, her husband and their employees scrambled into a giant gray metal box -- normally used to keep the restaurant's food refrigerated, but which that night saved nine lives in the shattered small town of Rolling Fork. The tornado cut a trail of havoc more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) long acr...
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Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - Storm-ravaged Mississippi struggled on Sunday with the aftermath of a huge tornado that tore across the southern US state, killing at least 25 people, with devastated communities bracing for a fresh bout of extreme weather. Search-and-rescue workers surveyed the damage of shredded homes, flattened buildings and smashed cars in Rolling Fork, a small town all but wiped out by nature's wrath. After President Joe Biden freed up disaster aid, the National Weather Service (NWS) warned residents of Mississippi and neighboring Alabama of potential new "supercell th...
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Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - A brick house reduced to rubble, its floors strewn with personal effects like a pink backpack and a bottle of shampoo, somehow standing upright. That's just one of many scenes of the utter devastation left by a tornado that ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi Friday night. And shell-shocked residents of the shattered town of Rolling Fork are now grappling with how much their lives changed in the blink of an eye. At least 25 people were killed, 13 of them in this town of 2,000 people. On Sunday morning, under skies that were blue for the time...
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Rolling Fork (United States) (AFP) - At least 25 people were killed by devastating tornadoes that ripped across the southern US state of Mississippi, tearing off roofs, smashing cars and flattening entire neighborhoods, with the region readying for more severe weather Sunday. The powerful weather system, accompanied by thunderstorms and driving rain, cut a path of more than 100 miles (60 kilometers) across the state late Friday, slamming several towns along the way. Mississippi's emergency management agency put the death toll at 25, and said dozens more were injured. Four people reported missi...
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Washington (AFP) - "I know of two friends who lost their life," Rolling Fork business owner Ricky Cox said as he started to absorb the devastating consequences of tornadoes that ripped across Mississippi. "It's way worse than I thought. All of the businesses on Highway 61 are gone," he told AFP on Saturday as he picked up emergency supplies to deliver to those in need. Cox has owned Southern Ag Distributors, a seed and chemical supplier, on Highway 61 for 12 years. The tornado "tore the building up -- I won't be able to do anything out of it," the 61-year-old said. Cox, who lives one hour away...
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Washington (AFP) - A former US Marine who confessed to raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl was executed Wednesday in the southern US state of Mississippi. Thomas Edwin Loden, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:12 pm (0012 GMT) after he was administered a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, the Mississippi Department of Corrections said in a statement. Loden pleaded guilty to the June 2000 kidnapping of Leesa Gray, who had been stranded on the side of a rural road after her car had a flat tire. Loden, a gunnery sergeant and recruiter for the US Marine Corps, confes...
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Washington (AFP) - A 50-year-old man convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sexually assaulting his step-daughter was executed on Wednesday in the southern US state of Mississippi, local media said. David Cox, a former truck driver, was put to death by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. "I want my children to know that I love them very much and that I was a good man at one time," Cox said in his last words, according to state department of corrections commissioner Burl Cain, the Clarion Ledger newspaper reported. "Don't ever read anything but the King Ja...
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