Feeding Silver City tornado victims.

Apr 7, 2023, 11:15 am

Silver City, being only 250 or so residents, has not gotten the attention of much bigger Rolling Fork, but it was equally destroyed by the recent E-4 tornado. Bob Crisler, Ted Dinkins, Ron and Anna Katherine Scott and I traveled there for a day to serve 80 lunch meals and 180 meals. Northminster Baptist Church and Greg Radar provided the funding. Ted brought an awesome smoking rig from his son's Starkville restaurant, Two Brothers Smoked Meats. Everyone was so appreciative and kind. A great example of the love and kindness of the people of our state. It was great food. Ted had just come back from New Orleans where his Hog Addiction cooking team won first place (out of 160 teams for the second year in a row!) in the Ochsner's Hog for A Cause event which raised $3.5 million for the treatment of pediatric brain tumors.

This rig cooked 180 chicken pieces in a few hours. They were delicious!

200 miles an hour winds.

Huge piles of rubble everywhere. A lot of volunteers have cleared so much debris.

Local residents came by throughout the day to pick up food at the First Baptist Church. Red Cross volunteers told us exactly how many meals to make. Different volunteers are assigned different days.