In Holmes County, a combination of rain and backwater flooding from the rising Mississippi River is causing problems.
The Red Cross has now set up a shelter to help those affected by the rising water.
Downstream flooding is turning neighborhoods into islands in Tchula. Water has overtaken some roads, cars are submerged and yards have turned into lakes.
“It is bad,” said one Tchula resident.
“It is a headache. All I know it is a headache. It is bad, but we have to deal with,” said another.
No one is more frustrated than Jennie Jefferson and her family. She has to walk through the murky floodwaters surrounding her home or use a boat to get in out.
Her son is currently constructing a makeshift walkway to make the trek easier.
“It may not look good, but it’s getting us in and out,” said Jefferson.
Many residents are wondering what is exactly causing all the flooding in this small town. Officials say the rainwater from North Mississippi can’t drain out of the Delta because the Mississippi River and backwater levels are high.
“I have seen alligators, snakes and all different insects. Plus, they keep saying ‘Don’t get in the water,’” said the flood victim.
Red Cross has setup a shelter in Tchula to help flood victims into the water recedes. More than a dozen people have evacuated there.
Bonnie Edwards is one of the Red Cross volunteers.
“We had a gentleman yesterday bringing cleaning supplies, and one of the ladies donated breakfast this morning and so we are just happy. Even the clients in here, they want to help us in here. They keep saying ‘Can I do something for you? Do you need me to help you with that?’ So that’s a good feeling - having other people wanting to help you,” said Edwards.
Tchula residents are praying for relief.
“I hope to God the water goes down. I hope to God it goes down,” said Jefferson.
You can find the Red Cross Shelter at Milestone Co-op Community Center at 147 Head Start Road in Tchula.
Alec Baldwin will narrate Flint water crisis documentary, report says
No more guessing necessary about the role Alec Baldwin will play in the upcoming documentary “Flint.”
He’s narrating the new film about the city’s water crisis, a production that’s directed by by Anthony Baxter and that has been in the works since 2017.
In a story published Saturday, Feb. 22, The Hollywood Reporter says the veteran actor is lending his voice by narrating the film, which the Internet Movie Database says is scheduled to be released March 1 at the Glasgow International Film Festival.
A year ago, Baldwin created a local buzz after he was spotted all around Flint, visiting former Mayor Karen Weaver and others.
MLive-The Flint Journal could not immediately reach a publicist for the film Monday, Feb. 24.
Baldwin, in addition to his work as a leading man in films, is known for his recurring portrayal of President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live" and for his work on the former television sitcom “30 Rock."
Baxter directed the documentary 'You’ve Been Trumped" in 2011, which followed a group of Scottish homeowners who fought Trump’s efforts to buy up wilderness areas in Scotland to build a gold resort.
Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards, whose work disclosed the corrosiveness of Flint’s water supply after it began using the Flint River in 2014, and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, are among those who were interviewed during the making of “Flint.”
Last week, the Capital City Film Festival in Lansing announced it would host the first Michigan screening of the film.
Diana Serra Cary, silent-film star ‘Baby Peggy’ who often cheated death on set, dies at 101
Jean Montgomery, she became one of the country’s youngest self-made millionaires by age 4, then suffered a devastating reversal of fortune and fame in her adolescence. In adulthood, she rebounded with a new name, Diana Serra Cary, and became a respected author of books on Hollywood film history. In her autumnal years, at screenings of her few extant films, she found herself embraced as a movie pioneer.
Mrs. Cary, 101, who was among the last living Hollywood stars of the silent era, died Feb. 24 at her home in Gustine, Calif. Rena Kiehn, a board member of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, Calif., confirmed her death but did not cite a cause.
Mrs. Cary was born into the movies, on Oct. 29, 1918, in San Diego. The family soon settled in Los Angeles. Her father, a former cowboy and park ranger, worked as a stunt double for western star Tom Mix while her mother was a movie extra. Baby Peggy was 19 months old when her mother brought her to Century Studio, where a director paired her with the animal star Brownie the Wonder Dog.
She made dozens of shorts over the next several years, many of which have been lost. Those that survive show a precocious toddler with a gift for physical comedy and mimicry. A still from the short “Peg o’ the Movies” (1923) shows her in a slinky dress and holding a cigarette in an imitation of exotic actress Pola Negri. In other comedies, she parodied film stars Rudolph Valentino and Mary Pickford.
“She was able to do imitations, which is something a really small child isn’t usually capable of,” film historian Kevin Brownlow told the London Independent in 2006. “In one of her films, she plays an old grandfather with a beard.”
“You can see that often the camera is grinding and that she is doing things very naturally which [the filmmakers] are picking up,” Brownlow added, “but she is also perfectly capable of taking direction which — given her age — is quite amazing.”
Doing her own stunt work, she was held underwater in “Sea Shore Shapes” (1921) and positioned under the rods of a train in “Miles of Smiles” (1923). Her father, who attributed her talent and success to “plain old-fashioned obedience,” supervised the shoots.
By 1923, she was signed by a bigger studio, Universal, where she commanded $10,000 a week for feature-length films. The next year, she starred opposite Clara Bow in the comedy “Helen’s Babies.”
“To be taken seriously,” studio chief Carl Laemmle once said, “a child star should make you cry.” To that end, he cast Baby Peggy in “The Darling of New York” (1923), a tear-jerker — with treacherous stunt work — about an immigrant family that survives a tenement fire.
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