The emergency aid consists of financial support and the sending of relief supplies. People can receive money to pay for temporary accommodation or to have their damaged house repaired.
Without power
Tens of thousands of homes in Mississippi and neighboring states of Alabama and Tennessee are still without power. The search for survivors continues.
Villages that the tornado swept over were razed to the ground:
‘My city is gone’
In some villages entire residential blocks have been destroyed by the weather. In Rolling Fork, almost everything has been wiped out. “My city is gone,” Mayor Eldridge Walker told CNN. “Devastation is all I see. The community is now in a situation we never expected.”
The danger has not passed yet. The severe weather in the southern US will continue today. According to the American meteorological services, at least twenty million inhabitants in the southern states have to take into account storms, lots of rain, hail and possibly tornadoes.
