Tornado Carries Family Photo 130 Miles Away, Kentucky family's photo ends up in Indiana

[Demovictory9]

On Saturday, the morning after the storms, Katie Posten walked outside to find an old photograph stuck to the windshield of her car in New Albany, Indiana. She posted a picture of it on Facebook looking for its owners, along with the names and the date of 1942 written on the back, and ultimately discovered it belongs to the Swatzell family of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, the AP reports. Much of the town was essentially obliterated during the tornadoes.

The photo was just one of many items people have been finding that have traveled dozens of miles due to the storms; Facebook groups have been set up to help get them back to their owners.


"It shows you the power of social media for good," Posten says. "It was encouraging that immediately there were tons of replies from people, looking up ancestry records, and saying ‘I know someone who knows someone and I’d like to help.'

" Ultimately, someone who saw her post, which was shared widely, was friends with someone who had the same last name written on the back of the photo, and thus the owners—whose home was damaged in the tornadoes—were found. Posten has already made plans to return it.

https://www.newser.com/story/314428/tornado-carries-family-photo-130-miles-away.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

[wnylib]

1. Those are the irreplaceable items when

a home is destroyed.

[samnsara]

2. if a tornando hits my house there will be photos from the 30s and 40s flying everywhere..

......from my trash can. Going thru my parents and grand parents (precious but useless) crap i inherited (got stuck with) and I've thrown our hundreds of really cool old photos but if theres no mention on the back who they are, out they go. Ive kept the random ones that look like Grapes of Wrath photos but I want to go on record that if one ends up 100 miles away..I DONT WANT IT BACK!

[diane in sf]

3. You could sell those old snaps. There's a big demand for them.

[Demovictory9]

4. Iwrote the names and date on every photo i took..was a chore

Back in tje day when we printed photos.. Forsaw this problem of noone knowing who was in photo