Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly, second from left, poses for a photo with, from left, Peyton Brown, Robert Salmon, Sharon Salmon and Michael Boone, all of The Diabetic Shoppe, amid pallets loaded with nearly 600 pairs of shoes the Charleston business was donating to tornado victims in Rolling Fork. (Photo by Mike Goodwin)
Even while state officials continued to adjust the death count from Friday’s destructive nighttime tornadoes in parts of Mississippi, some people in Tallahatchie County were busy organizing relief efforts.