First Light on Joplin

On May 22, 2011, the sun rose over Joplin, Missouri, and revealed a mile-wide scar. An EF5 tornado had carved through the city the evening before, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods. St. John's Regional Medical Center lay in ruins. Houses were reduced to concrete slabs. That morning, Mark and Lisa Lindquist drove back toward their home on South Connecticut Avenue.…