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Buy this image Lindsey Gaw, 28, right, described life in the FEMA mobile housing complex just south of the Joplin Regional Airport, where hundreds of mobile homes are set up to house the thousands left homeless from the May 22nd EF-5 tornado on May 22nd. At left is Terry Woodworth, 40, playing with Gaw's son, Carson, 3. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Joplin police officer Wayne Buck patrolled the city's central and west sections of Joplin during his shift on October 28, 2011. Buck's home on S. Grand Avenue was destroyed by the May 22nd EF-5 tornado in Joplin. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star DAVID EULITT

Buy this image The replacement home for Edward and Sheri McAllister is under construction on the exact site of their former home at 2701 S. Winfield in Joplin, Mo. Their previous home was destroyed by the May 22nd EF-5 tornado that swept through Joplin's central core. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image The FEMA mobile housing complex just south of Joplin's Regional Airport has been dedicated to Officer Jeff Taylor of Riverside, Mo., who was killed by a lightning strike on May 23rd as he worked in tornado debris, one day after the devastating EF-5 tornado that destroyed Joplin's central core. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Charles Martin, 29, left, watched his son, Charles, Jr., 3, swing in his mother's arms, Cassey Martin, 23, inside a FEMA mobile home. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image One of the many streets in the FEMA mobile housing complex just south of the Joplin, Mo. airport has been addressed "E. Z Street." The FEMA mobile homes were assembled in one large site including three trailer areas following the May 22nd EF-5 tornado that left thousands of Joplinites homeless. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image The home of Edward and Sheri McAllister (at center) is one of the few items on the landscape at 2701 S. Winfield, where the couple are among the few homeowners in the neighborhood who have decided to rebuild on the site of their former home destroyed in the May 22nd EF-5 tornado. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image The husband and wife team of David and Michelle Cook work on the roofing of a heavily damaged house at 2430 Murphy in Joplin, Mo. on November 7, 2011. The couple are bartering their building services for their own home by working on the house on Murphy. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star DAVID EULITT

Buy this image House rules posted inside the FEMA mobile home of Lucas & Vanessa Owens of Joplin, Mo. outline the guidelines of living together with their two children, Alex and Darrell, and another couple, Cassey and Charles Martin, with their child Charles, Jr. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Volunteers with Mennonite Disaster Service assemble a new home on S. Sergeant Street in the central core of Joplin, Mo, destroyed by the May 22nd EF-5 tornado. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Joplin police officer Wayne Buck patrolled the city's central and west sections of Joplin during his shift on October 28, 2011. Buck's home on S. Grand Avenue was destroyed by the May 22nd EF-5 tornado in Joplin. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Margie Cones, right, wept as she recalled the night of the May 22nd tornado that destroyed her home where she lived with her grandson Michael Howard, left. The two currently live in a FEMA trailer but Cones is voluntarily moving out of the trailer as she feels the trailer could be better used by a larger family in need of more space. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Joplin police officer Wayne Buck stands outside his patrol car on the site of his former home at 2109 S. Grand Avenue in Joplin, Mo., destroyed in the May 22nd EF-5 tornado. Buck and his family decided not to rebuild on their former site, instead choosing to commute from a nearby suburb. DAVID EULITT/The Kansas City Star DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Terry Martin sat outside her FEMA mobile home watching the television crew from ABC's "Extreme Home Makeover Edition" videotape another family living in the complex who had a home built for them by local volunteers donating their time and services. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Concrete tornado shelters, each with a 34-person capacity, have been built around the FEMA mobile housing complex just south of the Joplin, Mo. airport. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Lucas Owens, 21, adjusts the storm alarms included in the FEMA mobile home he is living in. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Alex Owens, 2, stood in the kitchen area with Charles Jackson, Jr., 3, (in yellow) with Alex's mother, Vanessa Owens, sat (center) with Cassey and Charles Martin, right, parents of Charles, Jr., inside a FEMA mobile home at 1604 E. Z Street in Joplin, Mo. The two couples are living together in the 2-bedroom unit south of the Joplin Regional Airport. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Alex Owens, 2, foreground right, sat on the sofa among a flurry of activity of his parents and other couple living in the temporary housing inside 1604 E. Z Street in Joplin's FEMA mobile housing complex. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Lucas Owens, 21, fed a spoonful of soup to his son, Alex Owens, 2, center, in the FEMA mobile housing complex in Joplin DAVID EULITT

Buy this image A view looking east from the second-floor window cutout in the future home of Sheri and Edward McAllister, under construction at 2701 S. Winfield in Joplin, Mo. The May 22nd tornado destroyed their neighborhood and only a few former residents have decided to rebuild. DAVID EULITT

Buy this image Sheri McAllister will have fewer neighboring homes to look at out her picture window following the May 22nd EF-5 tornado wiped out the majority of their neighborhood at 2701 S. Winfield in Joplin, Mo. Sheri and her husband Edward McAllister have chosen to rebuild their home on the exact site of their previous home which was destroyed. DAVID EULITT