Every other street is blocked or has damage in some form. Please avoid these areas as crews are working. TUESDAY FORECAST: Warm & Breezy Today; Storm Chances Return For Tomorrow JOPLIN ...

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 ...