First-Hand Accounts Videos

1966 CANDLESTICK TORNADO

Larry Swales of the Rankin County Chancery Court recounts what happened to him as a high school senior working in the grocery store destroyed by the deadly Candlestick tornado.


1979 EASTER FLOOD

MID Property Casualty and Rating Director John Wells discuss the events that led up to and actions that were taken to save files at the Mississippi Rating Bureau during the 1979 Easter Flood.


2005 HURRICANE KATRINA

First responder Shannon Sandridge of the Mississippi State Fire Academy describes what responders found upon first arriving on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina