Along my journey from St. Louis to Oklahoma
in 2004, I made a stop in Pierce City Missouri. A year ago, on
May 4th, 2003 the small town was hammered by an F3 tornado. Most
of the town's main street was destroyed and now a year later,
it's still obvious what happened here. There are numerous plots
of land where the remains of some of the ruined buildings have
been bulldozed. Some of the structures were 140 year old historical
buildings. There was one fatality here and there were 6 other
killer tornadoes that formed that day across Kansas and Missouri. |