![]() ![]() ![]() President Joe Biden toured Rolling Fork after the tornado. Large stretches of Amory, a north Mississippi town, also were damaged. ![]() That figure is nearly double Mississippi’s roughly 19% rate and triple the nation’s nearly 12% rate. Sharkey County is one of the country's poorest regions, with a poverty rate of around 35%. The tornado devastated the Sharkey County town of Rolling Fork and the town of Silver City in neighboring Humphreys County, reducing entire blocks to piles of rubble and leaving hundreds of people homeless. “Our thoughts are with the families who’ve lost loved ones and are still recovering from the storms.” “This, unfortunately, brings the death toll in Sharkey County to 14, and statewide is 22 due to the severe weather,” the agency said in a news release. ![]()
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