One year after a deadly tornado struck, debris of homes and businesses awaits removal in Rolling Fork, Miss., on March 22, 2024. Buildings throughout town remain boarded up, and the remnants of destroyed properties dot the landscape. The tornado killed 14 residents and reduced the town to rubble as it charted a merciless path across one of the country’s poorest regions. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — As a deadly tornado barreled toward their home in the Mississippi Delta, Ida Cartlidge only had time to scoop up her 1-year-old son, Nolan, and hold him close.
