It's two years this week that tornadoes hit Joplin, Missouri, which is still recovering.
Wednesday marks the second anniversary of the tornado that pulverized Joplin, killing at least 158 people.
She enjoyed it so much that she helped out in Joplin less than a month later.
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Tuscaloosa and Joplin, while hardly tornado-free, are a ways off the usual major axis of destruction.
My mother remains one of the missing due to the tornado that swept through Joplin.
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They estimate that 35% of Joplin was destroyed, mostly in the 64804 ZIP code.
We are not going to stop until Joplin is fully back on its feet.
The tragedy in Joplin triggered stronger warnings by the weather service about life-threatening storms.
On the lower level, he plays vinyl records Elton John, Joy Division, Janis Joplin over the store's speakers.
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The images and stories to come out of Joplin, Missouri over the past week have been heartbreaking.
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Officials in Joplin, Missouri, confirmed at least 116 people dead after a twister smashed the city Sunday.
Langston Hughes, poet, civil rights activist who knew some tough times, he was born here in Joplin.
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In Joplin, the torched mosque's 90 congregants invited 300 other people to join them Sunday for Eid.
It also came almost exactly two years after an enormous twister ripped through the city of Joplin, Mo.
Now Moore will join Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama as recent landmarks to nature's indifference to human civilization.
The idea to swap Scott Joplin for Jay-Z and ragtime for rap was a bold and brilliant choice.
But Dr. Huff asked everybody to pitch in so that school started on time, right here in Joplin.
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Singer Janis Joplin was to die only a few weeks after him, and Jim Morrison the next summer.
You come here to Joplin and it is just as heartbreaking and in some ways even more devastating.
In Rickie Lee Jones' heaven, Janis Joplin works at the corner bar and folks ride around in Elvis' Cadillac.
Joplin High, like the city itself during the tornado, got split in two.
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More than 600 miles away, in Little Elm, Texas, Lanette Bowcutt heard the news of the Joplin band's losses.
In Joplin, Missouri, pickup trucks became ambulances, doors served as stretchers, and a university transformed itself into a hospital.
Memories of the tragedy are still fresh in the minds of Joplin residents.
At night, the President will depart Joplin Regional Airport en route Washington, DC.
Missouri legislators worried that FEMA was shifting priority from Joplin's recovery to focus on Irene because of the funding crunch.
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The main thing I just want to communicate to the people of Joplin is this is just not your tragedy.
Classes for Joplin High's juniors and seniors will be held in at the vacant Shop Co. store in Northpark Mall.
The Joplin Chamber of Commerce stresses that the economic effects of a disaster like this can affect communities for years.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is getting involved by spearheading the Joplin Challenge in association with Habitat For Humanity.
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