A McDonald's restaurant golden arches sign that was damaged in storms is shown on West Church Street in downtown Lexington, Tenn., May 7, 2003.
Power lines block access to downtown Jackson, Tenn., where a tornado hit early Monday, May 5, 2003. Tornado-packed storms flattened communities in four Midwestern states and killed at least 38 people.
Standing beside her overturned vehicle, Carolyn Tucker looks over her possesions, Monday, May 5, 2003, in Madison a suburb of Nashville, Tenn. The contents of her home was strewn over her backyard after a violent storm ripped the roof off her house and caused extensive damage.
Freddie Smith, right, and Russ Talley, left, clean up fallen trees in their Jackson, Tenn. neighborhood, May 6, 2003. Most of the homes on the street were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s and had undergone restoration.
Pauline Shaw, 78, gives her dog, Lil' Bit, a kiss while sitting in the front seat of a Tennessee Highway Patrol cruiser after a severe storm damaged her home in Belleville, Tenn., May 5, 2003. She was taken to a shelter nearby and given medical care for a minor leg injury. None of her three dogs were injured.
A home destroyed by a tornado in Jackson, Tenn., is seen May 6, 2003. The salvaging of homes and businesses and the restoration of services is taking place in towns smashed by tornadoes that roared through Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee.