Lives spared from another disaster – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

On the information of an oncoming storm, most react in one in all two methods.

Some are within the, “It’s by no means as dangerous as they are saying,” class and others put together for the worst and hope for the perfect.

Fortunately, throughout an in a single day storm that led to hail, at the least 2.85 inches of rain and a potential twister on Tuesday and Wednesday, Adams County and Concordia Parish survived yet one more storm that would’ve been lots worse.

Only a few weeks earlier than, close to the tip of November, we braced ourselves for a storm that turned out to be uneventful for the realm as bands of dangerous climate seemingly cut up earlier than hitting Adams County and putting laborious in close by Wilkinson and Amite counties.

Now think about if we had let that final result affect the way in which we responded to Tuesday night’s climate menace, treating it as if nothing was going to occur. At about 2 a.m., twister sirens sounded from the Sibley space and into city.

A trailer filled with eight folks, from ages 2 to 59, off of Cranfield Street had been alerted of the menace and younger youngsters, teenagers and adults piled right into a closet with a mattress over their heads. Your entire home seems to have been lifted from its place and spun at a slight angle and put again down once more. Large timber had been uprooted within the yard. All eight not solely survived, however they didn’t have a scratch on them.

That is one other second the place we will all set free a sigh of reduction and hopefully run to this household’s assist to assist them substitute their misplaced belongings. It could possibly additionally function a reminder of why we don’t flirt with catastrophe and take these occasions severely.

Our hearts and prayers exit to those that had been impacted by this storm. On the similar time, we are saying due to God for his safety. Issues actually may have been lots worse.