Storms Slam Midwest

Tina Story, right, and Brandi Neil pick through debris from a tornado damaged home, Friday, May 2, 2008, in Center Ridge, Ark. A powerful storm system packing tornadoes and heavy winds roared across the nation's midsection early Friday, killing at least seven people in Arkansas including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept.

Thousands of dead chickens lay on the ground after a tornado destroyed a chicken farm, Friday, May 2, 2008, in Center Ridge, Ark.

Homes damaged by severe thunderstorms are viewed from the air over Gladstone, Mo., Friday, May 2, 2008. Severe thunderstorms with straight-line winds damaged over 200 homes and businesses in the town.

Residents look over the damage from severe thunderstorms in Gladstone, Mo., Friday, May 2, 2008.

Damaged homes from severe thunderstorms are seen in an aerial photograph over Gladstone, Mo., Friday, May 2, 2008.

This aerial view shows a damaged pawn shop, center, in Gladstone, Mo., Friday, May 2, 2008. Heavy winds associated with severe thunderstorms damaged over 200 homes and businesses.

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, 2008. According to Siloam Springs city officials the tree fell sometime between 3:30 and 4 a.m. Friday and one resident of the mobile home was killed in the incident.

Workers with Westar Energy repair a power line, Friday, May 2, 2008, background, while a crew from the company that manages a mobile home trailer court in north Lawrence, Kan., clean up around a home that was damaged by a fallen tree after a storm Friday morning, May 2, 2008. A large tree landed in the bedroom end of the mobile home. The occupants were watching television in the living room and were not injured.

Bert Morgison, wife of the owner of Arnie's Boat Sales and Service in Lawrence, Kan., surveys boat damage at the business Friday, May 2, 2008, after an early morning storm blew through Lawrence. A couple boats were overturned and several were damaged in the storm.

The Arby's in Independence, Mo. sits in a shambles Friday morning, May 2, 2008, after overnight storms with hurricane force winds ripped through eastern Jackson County.