I found this on my hard drive today and thought you guys out there might want to see it. This is a panorama of twelve photos I shot in succession of Picher, Oklahoma, a few months after it was hit hard by a tornado in May 2008.
The degree of devastation is stunning…you can easily see where houses once stood, and trees have had their limbs picked bare. To add to the eerie effect, piles of “chat” — discarded lead tailings from the mine operations in prior generations — tower over the town, which was recently declared by the federal government to be a Superfund site.
Click the photo below and take it all in. You’ll have to scroll from left to right to see it all.
Entire blocks were devastated by the tornado. Notice the piles of chat from earlier mining operations in the background.
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