Jon & I heard about the same incident worlds away, the Canadian media devoted about 30 seconds cumulative to the story. A tornado earlier this week tore a swath through the 800-strong town of Picher, about 8 miles south of Miami, Oklahoma. 6 persons perished in the storm.

We made our way through the main street, passing a convoy of white passenger vehicles escorted by two police cars. Making to the treeline, we finally saw the vast gouge that this tempest carved into the terrain: trees twisted into grotesque images of themselves, cars wrapped around the largest and oldest of the once free-standing oaks. I stared in awe, beholding the homes that once housed 1,600 people; now laying in ruins.

Suffice it to say: this town looked like a fucking bomb had been dropped on it, and I couldn’t hold my tears back.

More to come, stay tuned.