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Food truck owner drives an hour to help feed survivors of the Selmer tornado
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4/5/2025
Just hours after an EF-3 tornado leveled part of Selmer, Tennessee, Jamil Patterson grabbed his four daughters and niece and hit the road to serve up kindness and a hot meal.
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I sell food every day and so I said I'm not selling nothing today. I'm not selling nothing.
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I'm going to get some waters and yield. Under a canopy of torrential rain lies a beacon of hope.
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Jamil Patterson with his four daughters and niece in tow drove an hour north from their hometown
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of Rienzi, Mississippi to help people they've never met but knew could use a kind heart.
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I hadn't gone through this but I can just imagine the experience of not having
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no food or anything you know. There was a time where I didn't have power for some days so I was
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cooking on the grill but if you don't have anything that's terrible you know I could just imagine.
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On April 3rd, under the cloak of darkness, the high-end twister leveled many parts of
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this historic town. More than two dozen people were injured, several people died,
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and crews from around Tennessee and neighboring states jumped into action. Jamil got the word
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out by making a Facebook post and his daughters holding signs in the rain along the main street
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in Selmer. My friend Elizabeth here, I called her and said hey where can I set up in Selmer
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just so we can get some food. She said hey go to the farmer's market and we're gonna come by
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help so she come she got a bunch of stuff. Jamil's nephew number two barbecue is a modest food truck
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in the heart of northern Mississippi that often donates his time and profits to help his neighbor.
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So you can have all the money you want but if you don't have no way to use it you're in the
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worst shape as everybody else in so I just wanted to help everybody and so I
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told the girls let's go and they said okay and here we are. Serving up kindness and a hot meal
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is just one of the silver linings to shine among the tragedy. Reporting in Selmer, Tennessee,
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I'm Leslie Hudson for AccuWeather.
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