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• May 2: A U.S. Postal Service truck makes its way through the debris in Earle, Ark., left from by a tornado. Violent storms unleashed tornadoes, high winds and hail in four central U.S. states and killed seven people in Arkansas.
• May 2: Tammy West helps her friends Liz and Charlie Young search for valuables at their home in Earle, Ark., after it was destroyed by a tornado.
• May 2: Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe addresses reporters in North Little Rock, Ark., after a number of deadly storms passed through the state.
• May 2: A feed store near Damascas, Ark., lies in ruin after a tornado struck the town.
• May 2: A feed store, bottom, and a church, top, lie in ruins in Damascus, Ark., after a tornado hit the town.
• May 2: Eastbound traffic is backed up for miles on Interstate 40 near Carlisle, Ark. Two trucks went off of the highway during a storm.
• May 2: Rubble and fallen trees are all that remain of a home site in Damascus, Ark., after storms struck the town.
• May 2: A chicken house at a farm near Center Ridge, Ark., is damaged after a storm hit the town.
• May 2: A mobile home is destroyed in Center Ridge, Ark., after storms struck the area.
• May 2: People look through tornado debris in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: People gather near Southside Baptist Church in Damascus, Ark., after storms destroyed the building.
• May 2: People gather in front of the Southside Baptist Church in Damascus, Ark., after storms destroyed the building.
• May 2: A truck is surrounded by debris from a tornado in Center Ridge, Ark. A powerful storm system packing tornadoes and heavy winds roared across the nation's midsection.
• May 2: Rescue crews work a neighborhood after it was damaged by severe thunderstorm winds in Kansas City, Mo.
• May 2: Residents fix roofs and move furniture from homes damaged by severe thunderstorm winds in Kansas City, Mo.
• May 2: Karen Taber picks through debris in her bedroom after a tornado destroyed her home in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: Residents walk through their neighborhood after it was damaged by severe thunderstorm winds in Kansas City, Mo.
• May 2: An unidentified insurance adjuster looks over thunderstorm damage in Kansas City, Mo.
• May 2: Marty Flowers holds an American flag he found in the debris from his tornado-destroyed home in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: Makayla Flowers, 6, feeds her dog, Dottie, while friends and family pick through debris from her tornado-destroyed home in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: Butch Gunderman looks over a tornado-destroyed home in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: Thousands of dead chickens lay on the ground after a tornado destroyed the chicken farm in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: Tina Story, right, and Brandi Neil pick through debris from a tornado-damaged home in Center Ridge, Ark.
• May 2: Bert Morgison, wife of the owner of Arnie's Boat Sales and Service in Lawrence, Kan., surveys boat damage at the business after an early morning storm blew through Lawrence, near Missouri.
• May 2: Residents of Choice Mobile Home Park in Siloam Springs,Ark, cover a mobile home damaged by a fallen tree during a thunderstorm early Friday morning.
• May 2: Damaged homes from severe thunderstorms are seen in an aerial photograph over Gladstone, Mo.
• May 2: Crews clean up around a home in a trailer park that was damaged by a fallen tree after a storm in Kansas, near Missouri.