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Daughter's face. >> this is her teddy bear she'd got when she had her appendix out about three months ago at children's hospital. >> reporter: but paisley can't stop thinking about her dog. >> paisley cried for -- that was probably the most upsetting things to the kids, out of all of it, was roxy. >> reporter: then a phone call, one day after the storm, and almost two miles away from the wood's home, david franco, an oil rig worker, sees a dog walking around his work site. >> as soon as i saw her, i knew that she belonged to somebody who may be house got destroyed. >> reporter: paisley and her...

Piedmont, where one family lost their home and thought they'd also lost their beloved pet. ed lavendera tells us what happened the next. >> stay in there, paisley! >> reporter: these are the frantic moments. >> it's coming right over us. we're right in its path. >> reporter: just before frank wood scrambled up the stairs to his balcony and saw the tornadic beast for the first time, staring him straight in the eyes. >> that's once in a lifetime. you'll probably never see this again. and it's moving fast. >> holy crap. >> it's huge. >> reporter: wood rushed his children down into the garage and ...

>> until lantze is find dead or alive, i've got to find him. >> reporter: frank wood rushed his family into their storm shelter as a twister struck. >> we got to get in now. come on, bud. it's coming right over us. we're right in its path. >> one beloved member of the wood family, roxy, the dog, didn't make it into the shelter. we'll find out what happened to her, and believe me, you'll want to hear that. all these stories in detail tonight, and witness the courage of people beset by both catastrophe and tragedy. but we start at the beginning. it's 5:40 on sunday evening and a monster rakes ac...

Hard, you know, but, it's our life. we go on. >> you're about the most optimistic person i've met in a long time. >> i don't know, like i said, life goes on. you cannot -- you cannot fall apart over things like this. >> reporter: you can't fall apart, and so, she doesn't. that's how you rebuild, she tells me. that's how you restart. you stay strong, you pick up the pieces, and you start one by one. >> reporter: it's not just in joplin, where so many lives are being rebuild. in oklahoma, a funnel cloud cut a tractor-trailer in half. the driver escaped with his life, the pictures are incredible....

>> oh, we've got lightning. we need to go back. let's turn around. >> oh, it's getting big, big, big. >> that's huge! >> for those who survived, the scars will always be them. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover in a convenience store in a walk-in beer cooler. one turned on his camera as the tornado struck. the video is dark, but the sound tells a story. >> oh! [ wind blowing ] >> oh, my god! >> jesus, jesus! >> imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene in their neighborhood moments af...