The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved more than $1.9 million to assist Mayfield Electric and Water Systems with expenses related to the Dec. 2021 tornado.
Darien McGee had been heading to the bathroom when winds akin to "a force of God" knocked him to the ground. The EF4 tornado that struck Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on March 24 roared overhead, tearing McGee's house to rubble. "It was like a force of God. The same force that came through here is the same force that got me out," Darien McGee told AccuWeather National Reporter Jillian Angeline. He hadn't made it into the bathroom a place typically regarded as one of the safer rooms to take shelt