From the Washington Post today
Headline: Tornadoes killed her grandparents. Eight strangers helped her save their photos.
The tornadoes took everything when they barreled through Judy and Billy Miller's house in Kentucky, leaving just a ring of cinder blocks.
But their photos — documenting a 56-year marriage cut short — survived.
A farmer in Indiana found a picture of the Millers as young parents. A 50th anniversary photo blew upstate. A black-and-white childhood portrait flew more than 100 miles to Louisville, where Ellen Sears went to the park Saturday to take in a stormy sunrise. Soon Sears spotted something nestled in the grass that "just didn't belong" — a girl's photo, labeled "Judy," somehow unscathed.
Sears shared the picture at 6:39 p.m. in a rapidly growing Facebook group called "Quad State Tornado Found Items." The Millers' granddaughter, 25-year-old Haley Burton, saw the photo quickly.
"My Nana," she wrote in the comments at 7:19 p.m. She had just recognized another lost photo that turned up in a backyard in Jeffersonville, Ind.: "This is me."
(The story is longer, but might be a paywall)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/13/tornadoes-photos-couple-bremen/
I saw some of the pictures on a news post earlier, Bambi, and thought of all the pictures OPR has given back with love, to their owners. We are a family here. Our work though not always noticed is done pixel by pixel with love!
There were several hard-to-believe stories of photos from the tornado getting blown far away but finding their way home. Heartwarming in the midst of really awful circumstances. Here's another story like the above:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/photo-from-tornado-damaged-kentucky-home-lands-nearly-130-miles-away-in-indiana/2705895/
Amazing, but so heartbreaking what is happening there. :'(