We are 40 miles south of Joplin in Arkansas. My wife did charity work in Haiti and I was in Japan when the earthquake hit. When we heard about the tornado damage we knew we had to help out.

Besides chaos, John Decker also found an amazing sense of resiliency in Joplin, Mo. The mixture of emotions stemmed from his experience in a town devastated by a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado ...

A rare January Midwest tornado outbreak produced a violent F4 that raked across St. Louis, Missouri ... From there, it carved a damage path 50 to 200 yards wide over the course of 35 minutes ...