Months following killer tornado, many in Picher still displaced

 
By John David Sutter
Published: September 28, 2008

PICHER — More than four months after a tornado hit, Sue Sigle still makes a daily pilgrimage to the small pile of rubble where her house once stood.

On May 10, a tornado leveled Sigle's home in Picher while she was visiting her children in Missouri for Mother's Day weekend. The wreckage from that EF-4 tornado — which flattened about half of this dying mining town and killed six people — is still only partia...


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