This is the third in a series of interviews with governors navigating their state’s responses to the coronavirus crisis. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf were the first two.

Tate Reeves, the 65th governor of Mississippi, describes the moment — the day after a savage and deadly storm that left a tangle of power lines, trees, overturned vehicles, flattened homes, barns, and death — as the kind that brings you to your knees.