Jackson County authorities on Tuesday upped their damage estimate from an EF-2 tornado that smacked downtown on Monday – some 300 buildings damaged or destroyed and six injuries.
Samantha Williams said she was home in her apartment when the rain started getting hard on Monday.
“When I opened my door probably about like 20 minutes or 30 minutes later – oh, everything is like right in front of my window, right in front of my door,” she said. According to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, there were more utility crews than could get on to Main Street. “I’ve been going through hurricanes since I was a little boy, since 1979,” said Robert Jackson, an Ocean Springs resident who came Tuesday to check on his mother and cousins. “And we’ve never had this destruction through here. We generally get a warning. But with this, there was no warning.”
Mims said he is thankful that the kitchen largely is intact. But without power, he had meat that was threatening to spoil. He spent Tuesday morning grilling it in the rain before it went bad.
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