For almost six miles here, the remnants of homes,

For almost six miles here, the remnants of homes, workplaces, cars and personal belongings line the roadways or are scattered across residential and commercial lots. It’s a bleak landscape dotted with broken houses, trees stripped bare and cars crumpled into barely recognizable lumps of metal and fiberglass. There are also the personal items that serve as a reminder of life here before the tornado: old records, stuffed animals, torn and tattered school papers, toys, clothes and knick-knacks. The EF-5 tornado that swept through the city here May 22 damaged or destroyed about 8,000 buildings and killed 160 people.