This two-photo combo taken with a fisheye lens shows a scene taken on May 25, top, and again on July 21. In the top photo, David Turner, from Waco, Tex., sorts through belongings in a house occupied by his two sisters in a neighborhood now mostly cleared of debris. Two months after a tornado destroyed a large swath of the community and killed 159 people in Joplin, Mo., rebuilding efforts are taking shape across the city. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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This two-photo combo shows a scene taken on May 25, top, and again on July 20, showing progress made in Joplin. In the top photo, Beverly Winans hugs her daughter Debbie Surlin while salvaging items from Winans' devastated home which today stands cleared of debris. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
In this July 20 photo, a car drives down Main Street, which has been cleared of homes and businesses after they were destroyed by a tornado in Joplin. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
This two-photo combo shows a scene taken on May 23, top, and again on July 21, showing progress made in Joplin. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
In this July 21 photo, a worker clears tornado debris from a lot in Joplin. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
This two-photo combo shows a scene taken on May 27, top, and again on July 21. In the top photo, Jim Goff carries salvaged items to his car as he helps a friend retrieve items from a destroyed home in a neighborhood now mostly cleared of debris. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
In this July 21 photo, a worker walks among a pile of debris at a landfill in Galena, Kan., where some of the 2 million cubic yards of tornado debris have been hauled from nearby Joplin. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Jonathan Decker, from Hot Springs, Ark., tears a roof off a tornado-damaged home as the sun dips low in the sky Tuesday, July 19 in Joplin. Despite a recent heat wave, crews continue to clean up and rebuild. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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