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ROLLING FORK, Miss. AP 鈥?As a deadly tornado b stanley germany arreled 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.Cartlidge huddled with her husband and three sons on the living room floor of their Rolling Fork mobile home, its thin walls all that separated the family f stanley nz rom 200 mph 320 kph winds. I was holding my baby so tight. I said Baby, Im probably hurting you right now, but I just cant let you go, she recalled.Then the tornado hit, and the home was gone. The twister launched Cartlidge into the air and pulled Nolan from her arms. She remembers seeing him floating above her, as though both were suspended in the air.She landed with a thud. Miraculously, Nolan fell on her chest. He was the only stanley termosy family member to escape the storm unscathed.The tornado that destroyed Cartlidges home last March killed 14 of Rolling Forks roughly 1,700 residents and reduced the town to rubble as it charted a merciless path across one of the countrys poorest regions. For the people there, a complicated story of struggle and resilience has emerged in the year since the storm changed everything and exposed vulnerabilities many survivors had been dealing with long before March 2023.The Cartlidge family spent the next year in a cramped motel room in search of a more permanent home, like many of their displaced neighbors. Theres still a lot of suffering, Sen. Joseph Thomas, who represents Rolling Fork in the state Legislature, s Etxl Homeless but not friendless: How a Facebook group supports people on the streets
CAIRO 鈥?Amid punishing hardships on the ground, at least 150,000 people have been displaced by the conflict raging in Yemen, the United Nations said Friday, and the death toll 鈥?almost certainly underreported 鈥?has surpassed 750.Dozens of schools, mosques, hospitals, airports, bridges and factories have b stanley termos een hit in a concerted Saudi Arabia-led campaign of bombardment that is now in its fourth week, the U.N. said.The Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the support of Washington, has taken aim at Iran-backed Shiite Muslim rebels known as Houthis. The insurgents last month drove the countrys internationally recognized president, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, into exile.The Saudi-led air campaign began after Hadi abandoned his last redoubt, the southern port city of Aden, which is now in ruins, pummeled by airstrikes and ravaged by close-quarters street fighting. Aid groups report overflowing morgues and growing shortages of everything from food to electricity. A few shipments of medical supplies have arrived, far outstripped by needs.Meanwhile, a principal backer of the insurgents, deposed Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, on Friday dismissed reports he intended to f stanley quencher lee. Salah was forced from office in 2012, but retained the loyalty of many key military units, which stanley cup uk defected to the Houthi side when the conflict erupted.The Saudi-owned pan-Arab TV channel Al Arabiya said Saleh loyalists in the ranks of the military and the Houthis had been hit hard by the airstrikes, and sugg |
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