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The May 3rd tornado became an F5 tornado with 318 mph wind speeds.
More than 66 tornadoes hit Oklahoma.
The storm caused $1.1 billion in damage.
Forty eight people were killed in the storms.
More than 8,000 homes were damaged or destroyed.
Homes were flattened, roofs chewed off.
Almost everything was lost.
Neighbors helped collect 50 years of belongings.
"I am still amazed we were not hurt worse. It was a blessing".
Surfing the hurricane waves.
Trying to make it home during a hurricane, Florida Keys.
Flooding, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
Drought exposes shore line, leaving the docks high & dry.
Receding shore line during a drought.
Dying corn fields in western Oklahoma .
Baltimore row house fire, two children lost
Baltimore row house fire, two children lost
A helicopter carries water to a Wyoming wildfire.
A member of a hot-shot crew fire battles a wild fire, Idaho.
A sign hangs on a tree as a wildfire continues to burn, New Mexico.
Crying for a fallen Haitian leader.
"I'm here for the 2 million kids who are like me, who want their parents to get residency, so we can stay together".
Child born to field worker, who picked crops too soon after spraying chemicals on the fields.
Carlos "Carlitos" Herrera was born without arms or legs because of the misuse of pesticides.
"We were the children of the 1950s. We were draftees, proud of the opportunity to serve the country like fathers did".
Most never forget the day, they received the news.
"We were soldiers once...
...we were not just another war story. We went to war because our country asked us to go, because the president ordered us to go but more importantly, we saw it as our duty to go"
For others, healing is a process rather than an endpoint.
And for some there is no healing.
It is always a memory.