stewardship, taking care of the resources we ve been blessed with. so it s our awesome responsibility to build back communities to last lifetimes for our future generations. mayor bob dixson of greensburg, kansas, all the best. you said 65% of the way before you feel like your city is completely back up and running? it s an ongoing process. it s a growth process. i ve had people ask me when are you going to be done, and i say never because we don t ever want to be done with the growth process. you re either growing or you re declining. so we want to make sure that we continue to offer hope to each other. and it s our awesome responsibility from what we ve been through to offer hope to those other communities all over the united states that are suffering extreme disaster. and in the midst of their
built once before 17 years ago. on tuesday collins discussed the idea with shocked city officials. wednesday they gave him the okay to start. thursday construction began. we ve had just an enormous outpouring of generosity and help to get prepared to get back to this point. the city has been great. the city of job lynn allowed us a permit in record time. reporter: there s still no electricity in this part of joplin. the substation across the street remains in ruins. a generator powers the tools passersby continuing stop to offer encouragement and support. i just had two police officers stop by and say, we want to shake your hand, the first glimmer of hope that we ve really seen towards the town rebuilding. reporter: four nearby homes that collins built in the past year are in ruins. already he has at least six projects waiting to be rebuilt. my heart and prayers go out to everyone that did lose loved ones. i hate for it to come to something like this to bring busine
kansas, greensburg, kansas is a model of recovery now and alicia acuna is live there now, and 90% of the town was wiped out and it is a town again. how did they do that, alicia? reporter: hi, bill. they had to make the decision they were in fact going to rebuild and that is not an automatic one for everyone here and i m standing in what was the foot print of the city hall of greensburg and over here you can see the new city of greensburg city hall and it is an absolutely beautiful building and part of the vision of the rebuild here, was that they were going to head off into the future and made this a green town, literally. you can see wind turbines everywhere you look, in greensburg, because the entire town of 900 people, is powered by wind. and you will also see solar panels, they have the highest concentration of geothermal wells in the world, per capita, here in greensburg and that means they take the heat from the earth and use it and this town has become a model, bill,