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Shuqualak rebuilding after April tornado

Two months after a devastating tornado swept through Noxubee County, the residents of Shuqualak are rebuilding their homes and their lives.

Running Water Road received the brunt of the April 11 tornado, where nine mobile homes were destroyed, the winds seeming to pick up and drop the home as effortlessly as a child picking a dandelion. While residents were grateful that no lives were lost on that fateful day, they worried about whether they would have the money necessary to rebuild, fearful that federal assistance wouldn’t come. […]