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Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:06 pm
by crow
Any of you guys have any info on the destruction in my hometown? Just heard it on the news here!

crow

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:10 pm
by lowbar
Heard the old Yazoo Motor is gone and the Double Quick by the Mexican place got hit.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:11 pm
by r.c.a.1971
Prayers to anyone involved!! The news didnt sound good.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:26 pm
by BR549
My granddaughter lives just east of 49 from the old yazoo motor company. They lost the roof on their brand new home but are ok!

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:28 pm
by ducman77
All of the east side of Yazoo city is destroyed...Many houses are gone and there are some fatalities for sure and some stilll trapped in houses..

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:28 pm
by mally2
terrible news.

prayers for those involved.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 1:34 pm
by Redhead
Weather channel has live video from there now...

Looks bad!

Prayers sent!

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:09 pm
by peewee
I believe the same tornado struck Eagle Lake first. I heard over 30 homes were destroyed.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:35 pm
by BR549
Lost the Gin in Valley Park.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:21 pm
by mshunter77
Talked to my cousin who lives there and he said it hit on the south side of town around old yazoo motor. He said the wendys got destroyed and i think a church then apparently one whole neighborhood got hit pretty hard.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 3:26 pm
by donia
Redhead wrote:Weather channel has live video from there now...

Looks bad!

Prayers sent!
yes it did! weather channel said 1 fatality, so far.

prayers sent

*5:00 just talked to dad, on his way back from baton rouge, and near yazoo city traffic is being re-routed on hwy 3 - trees down and evacuating people from storm hit areas. he said he's gotta go back down 3, then to redwood and come up 61 to get back to isola.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:00 pm
by SFDdelta1
just talked with a buddy of mine from ema sounds like the town got hit pretty bad TF3 is heading there now

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Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:11 pm
by cupnglide
Prayers for all those affected. The pics on the weather channel shook me up.

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:52 pm
by SFDdelta1
from what I under stand our church is going to send a relief crew down

Re: Yazoo tornado

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:48 pm
by Yazoo Duckman
Whew! What a day! I pulled into town bout 30 min before it hit. It went straight through the south end of town and got yazoo motors, barber shop, ribeyes, staplcoton office, wendys, double quick/churchs chicken, and completely demolished hillcrest baptist church. It went through the enchanted hills neighborhood and then headed northeast to midway. Destroyed a lot of houses at the end of niven rd at eden midway. Killed an elderly lady in midway. Supposedly 3 people dead in yazoo county. Right now in the old K-mart parking lot there are LEOs from several counties, MEMA, MDWDP, national guard, highway patrol, firefighters, electrical companies, tree cutters and LOTS of media. They're cooking for everyone in the yazoo motor parking lot. They're still bringing people out using 4wheeler. Probably 80% of cleanup was from neighbors helping neighbors. To me it looked like midway and enchanted hills got the bad end of the deal. Not sure what it looks like between yazoo and satartia. Still lots of cleanup left but it'll get fixed. They're already repairing wendys and double quick. Need lots of prayers. Going to be lots of displaced people and still some folks missing.