Mississippi
Storms blamed for 3 deaths, water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi
Extreme storms that introduced damaging winds, heavy rains and flash flooding to elements of the Midwest and the South in the USA have been blamed for the deaths of three individuals, whereas a water disaster in Jackson, Mississippi exacerbated by latest flooding is inflicting main low-water strain issues.
Tons of of hundreds of residents in Michigan have been with out electrical energy on Tuesday morning after highly effective storms toppled timber and downed hundreds of energy strains within the state a day earlier, together with an influence line that electrocuted a 14-year-old lady.
Greater than 375,000 clients remained with out energy, utility corporations stated on Tuesday as dozens of colleges throughout southeastern Michigan, together with practically two dozen in Detroit alone, cancelled courses due to the outages, officers and The Detroit Information stated.
The storms within the Midwest and South – and the flooding in Mississippi – come amid rising issues within the US and all over the world over the influence of extreme climate that scientists blame on local weather change.
Within the Michigan metropolis of Monroe, a 14-year-old lady was electrocuted on Monday within the yard of her dwelling after coming into contact with {an electrical} line that was knocked down by a thunderstorm, the general public security division stated in a Fb put up.
In Arkansas, an 11-year-old boy died after he was swept right into a storm drain throughout heavy rainfall on Monday, authorities stated.
A 47-year-old girl who tried to assist the kid was additionally pulled from the drain and brought to a hospital for remedy, in response to police in Bentonville, Arkansas. Gradual-moving thunderstorms introduced heavy rainfall to the realm Monday and brought on localised flash flooding, the Nationwide Climate Service (NWS) reported.
“These heavy rains, once they fell, loads of them fell actually rapidly and in a short while,” stated meteorologist Brad McGavock, who relies within the NWS’s Tulsa, Oklahoma workplace, which covers elements of Arkansas. “Water administration by way of these storm drains can actually result in an enormous quantity of water by way of these culverts.”
In Toledo, Ohio, a lady was killed Monday night time when a tree fell on her behind her dwelling simply as a robust storm moved by way of the realm, the town’s hearth division stated.
Late on Monday, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after extreme rainfall worsened issues in Jackson, a metropolis with already troubled water-treatment crops. The issues are inflicting low water strain by way of a lot of the town of 180,000 individuals situated in central Mississippi.
The low strain raised issues about firefighting and about residents’ means to take showers or flush bathrooms, as even individuals who do have water are boiling it to scrub dishes. Jackson, a majority Black metropolis, will probably be with out secure water for ingesting, and even for brushing enamel for “an unknown time period”, Reeves stated, inflicting alarm and requires a federal response.
Mississippi’s Nationwide Guard was activated on Tuesday to assist distribute water.
The town of Jackson, MS is beneath a water emergency. No water for issues like fires, bathing, rest room flushing, ingesting, and so forth. As a result of the state of Mississippi has persistently failed its Jackson residents, which might be majority Black, we’d like a federal response. That is unbelievable
— Ameshia Cross (@AmeshiaCross) August 30, 2022
The flooding contributed to the remedy plant’s failure, officers stated, though Reeves stated he had realized final week that the breakdown was solely a matter of time, given years of poor upkeep. The lack of water strain “has created a situation of catastrophe and excessive peril to the protection of individuals and property”, an announcement issued on Tuesday by the governor’s workplace learn.
The issues on the water remedy plant got here after the town appeared to largely keep away from widespread flooding from a Pearl River swollen by days of heavy rain.
One dwelling was flooded Monday, however Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba stated the water didn’t rise as excessive as anticipated. Earlier projections confirmed about 100 to 150 buildings within the Jackson space confronted the potential for flooding.
Jackson has two water-treatment crops, and the bigger one is close to a reservoir that gives many of the metropolis’s water provide. The reservoir additionally has a task in flood management.
Jackson has had long-standing issues with its water system. A chilly snap in 2021 left a big variety of individuals with out operating water after pipes froze. Related issues occurred once more early this 12 months, on a smaller scale.
Even earlier than the flooding Monday brought on low-water strain issues, metropolis residents have been already being suggested to boil the water popping out of their pipes earlier than utilizing it to scrub dishes or to do different family chores – pointers they’ve been following since July. Exams discovered a cloudy high quality to the water that might result in well being issues.
Legislative leaders reacted with alarm to Jackson’s newest water system issues.
“We have now grave issues for residents’ well being and security,” Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann stated in a statement Monday, suggesting the state take a task in making an attempt to resolve the difficulty.
Speaker of the Mississippi Home of Representatives Philip Gunn stated he has been contacted by hospitals, companies and faculties “pleading that one thing be executed to handle the water disaster in Jackson”.
Because the Pearl River began to rise final week, some Jackson residents began transferring furnishings and home equipment out of their properties, and others stocked up on sandbags. Two years in the past, torrential rain brought on the river to crest at 11.2 metres (36.7 ft) the third highest stage on file for the town and the very best since 1983. Jackson properties within the hardest-hit neighbourhoods have been stuffed with soiled, snake-infested floodwaters.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Lights, camera, action.
Two student filmmakers from Mississippi had the opportunity to show off their short film to a crowd of a few dozen at the Two Mississippi Museums.
College student Jermarius Everett and high school student Walter Giesen watched their films take to the big screen.
Both films focus on the civil rights era and the process of de-segregation in different parts of the Magnolia State. Everett’s film is called ‘Masterminds Of The Movement.’
He said, “Our film was just about the students at Tougaloo and how impactful the college was being that they were in a unique position as a private liberal arts college and out of state funded college. Who could recommended for by the government. So, we wanted to just tell that story. Just tell how influential they was during their time and just the impact that they’ve made.”
Giesen’s film is called Mississippi Turning: The Pivotal Role Of School Desegregation In A Southern Town.”
He said, “My film tells the story of the school desegregation in Starkville and it looks at it from the national level all the way down to the local level, and it runs through that story in the really unique circumstances surrounding that.”
After both films were shown at the Two Mississippi Museums Sunday, the two young film makers got up on stage and took questions about the hard work they’d put into their films.
The moderator for the discussion, Randy Kwan, is also a film maker. He says he is inspired when students are eager to make films on Mississippi’s history.
Kwan said, “I grew up here in the Mississippi Delta and I wanted to be a filmmaker, and since I’ve moved back, I’ve always wanted to try to help young filmmakers and, you know, give them the opportunity that I never had. I’ve always had a love for documentaries and, to me, it’s inspiring to see all these new students that come in that have the desire to tell our stories.”
These filmmakers have some advice for those looking to get into the business… and may want to make a historical film of their own.
“I’d say just tell the story that you want to tell and tell the local story and like my story did, like it can garner national attention just by being the local story about your little town.”
“Don’t be discouraged by, you know, the lack of, you know, resources that you have at your leisure or the equipment that you might not have or things like that. Continue to tell your story.”
The next film on deck at the Two Mississippi Museums will be June 22 where at 2 p.m., the museum will show Farming Freedom: The Inspiring story of Black Land Ownership in Mississippi.
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Halfway through the 2025 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, Mississippi State finds itself in a good spot.
The Bulldogs climbed up the leaderboard in Saturday’s second round with a 2-under par team score and sits in sixth place in the tournament (4-over). A large reason for Mississippi State’s standing is Avery Weed, who leads the individual leaderboard ahead of Sunday’s rounds with a 7-under total for the tournament (69, 68).
“Playing in the morning today, we were hoping for a little less wind than we had in the afternoon yesterday, so we felt like we could really go out there and get some birdies early and I did do that,” Weed said when asked about her round. “I started out three under through four, and rode that the rest of the round as the wind kind of got more intense.”
Mississippi State was just one of six teams to shoot under-par in the second round of action.
The Bulldogs are nine stokes above tomorrow’s projected cutline of 13-over, which is currently held by Florida and UCLA. The top 15 teams will advance to play in the fourth round of stroke play. After that fourth round, the top eight of the leaderboard will advance to the match play portion of the tournament and the top player of the leaderboard will be named the NCAA Individual Champion.
The Bulldogs will tee off at 10:20 a.m. in the third round of the tournament Sunday. Here’s the complete team leaderboard and individual scores for Mississippi State golfers:
1. Stanford, -5
2. Northwestern, E
3. Oregon, +1
4. USC, Florida State, +3
6. Mississippi State, +4
7. Texas, Oklahoma State, +5
9. Arizona State, +6
10. South Carolina, +7
11. Virginia, Arkansas, +11
13. Vanderbilt, Tennessee, +12
15. Florida, UCLA, +15
17. LSU, Kansas State, +14
19. Ohio State, +16
20. Michigan State, +21
21. Oklahoma, +2322. Iowa State, +24
23. Kansas, +25
24. Wake Forest, +26
25. Ole Miss, +28
26. Baylor, Purdue +31
28. Georgia Southern, +32
29. CSU Fullerton, +33
30. UNLV, +35
1. Avery Weed (69, 68)
T13. Chiara Horder (73, 70)
T53.Ana Pina Ortega (77, 71)
T103. Samantha Whateley (75, 77)
T141. Izzy Pellor (79, 78)
Par = 72
For the third game in a row, the Missouri Tigers put themselves in a hole early in the game that they couldn’t get out of.
In the final home game and final regular season game of the year, the Tigers were swept in a 12-1 run-rule by Mississippi State. The Bulldogs scored 50 runs across the three-game series.
After getting two outs to kick off his start, Missouri starter Josh McDevitt struggled to close the frame. He allowed three singles, two doubles and a homer before he was pulled. He pitched just 2/3 of an inning and allowed six runs.
The Tigers had to go to their bullpen early for reliever Xavier Lovett, who went 3 1/3 innings in his long relief appearance. He gave up a two-run homer in his first inning, the Bulldogs 14th of the series. The 15th homer led off the fourth inning and Lovett’s final collegiate inning at home.
Two walks and a hit-by-pitch were handed to the Bulldogs by reliever Josh Kirchhoff to start the sixth inning. A fielder’s choice brought in one run and then a double brought the other two home. Another runner reached on an error before the inning concluded.
Unlike their first two games of the series, Mizzou was able to get a run of their own early. But it was just the one. A rough inning from Mississippi State starter Karson Ligon allowed the Tigers to load the bases with just one hit by pairing it with two hit-by pitches to bring a run home on a sacrifice fly from designated hitter Brock Daniels.
The Tigers concluded their historically bad regular season with an overall record of 16-38 and conference record of 3-27. Mizzou finished with the worst conference record ever in a 30 game season. They will face off in Round 1 of the SEC Tournament on Tuesday, May 20 in Hoover, Alabama.
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