Now, the city of Joplin, Mo., rebuilds and remembers one year after it was leveled by a deadly twister.This was Joplin one year ago, after a tornado packing 200-an hour winds tore through town. It killed 161 people, injured hundreds more, and destroyed 8,000 buildings, many of them homes.This is how the city of 50,000 looks today. Three million cubic yards of debris have been hauled away.Damaged homes have been torn down, leaving empty foundations. Others have been rebuilt, but at a cost.The storm caused $2.8 billion in damage, the costliest tornado since 1950. And emotional, physical and psychological scars remain. Normal is not normal for Joplin, Missouri, but one day, it will be. Joplin High School was severely damaged in the storm, as were 10 other public schools in the area.Classes moved to a nearby mall. With donations from the United Arab Emirates, students received new laptops and state of-the art equipment. But life after the storm continues to be an adjustment. We do not have books anymore, laptops now.Everything's been different.Nothing's been the same, except that it's school. We call it school. Last night, President Obama told graduating seniors they would always carry the experience of the past year with them.
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