A Kentucky household’s outdated photograph apparently traveled greater than 150 miles and landed exterior an Indiana girl’s dwelling after it was sucked up into the sky by one of many devastating tornadoes that struck Friday night time into Saturday.
Katie Posten, of New Albany, Indiana, walked out to her automotive on Saturday morning and found the worn black and white {photograph} caught to the window, she wrote on Facebook.
The small picture confirmed a lady in a striped costume holding a younger little one in her lap with the observe “Gertie Swatzell and JD Swatzell, 1942” scribbled on the again.
Posten shared the {photograph} “in hopes of discovering its homeowners,” assuming that it could have been ripped from one of many properties caught within the harmful, 200-mile lengthy path of the storm system.
In an up to date submit in a while Saturday, Posten mentioned she had tracked the photograph’s origin to the Swatzell household from Dawson Springs, Kentucky, a city of about 2,600 individuals situated 150 miles southwest of New Albany, that was ravaged by a twister.
“The photograph belongs to the Swatzell household in Dawson Springs, KY, which was hit by the twister final night time. I’ve been in contact with a member of the family and we’re making a plan to get the photograph again to them,” Posten wrote.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear on Saturday teared up as he surveyed the harm in Dawson Springs, the city the place his grandparents are buried, according to The Courier Journal.
Beshear mentioned “it hurts” seeing a big a part of city he has household ties to utterly destroyed.
After surveying the damages in Dawson Springs and nearby Mayfield, the governor declared the storm was the “deadliest twister occasion within the historical past of Kentucky.”
“Even warfare zones don’t look this dangerous. We noticed 4 separate tornadoes hit Kentucky, with the principle one staying on the bottom for 227 miles,” Beshear mentioned.
The harmful tornadoes claimed the lives of not less than 70 individuals in Kentucky alone and wreaked havoc throughout 5 states. Beshear mentioned that quantity might climb to over 100 as responders proceed to search through the rubble for victims.
