Jackson well on its way to restoring order

On Friday, it will have been one month since a devastating tornado ravaged Jackson, destroying homes, businesses, schools and other buildings and disrupting lives.

But in the weeks since, the howls of destructive wind and crumpling wood have been replaced with something much better: the sounds of survival and rebirth.

Those sounds could be found in Jackson this week with the pounding of hammers, the whining of drills and grunts of hard work as people continued cleaning up and reconstructing buildings and their lives.

It's good that people have come together. There's no doubt Jackson life will eventually get back to normal.

Jackson officials, noting that the city's cleanup effort can't go on indefinitely, have set a deadline for the city's involvement in debris removal. June 13 is the last day residents can put debris on the curb to be picked up by city crews.

It's a fair time frame. The city has to go on with other duties that have fallen behind in the storm's aftermath.

It has been uplifting to see how a community like Jackson can come together in time of crisis.