In a Facebook group created to help reunite lost possessions with their owners, people have been posting pictures of family photos, checks and even pets.
After tornados wreaked havoc across the midwest Friday night, people have been discovering belongings and heirlooms swept away by the natural disasters, sometimes more than 100 miles away.warehouse in Illinois and caused dozens of deaths across five states.created to help reunite lost possessions with their owners, people have been posting pictures of family photos, checks and even pets.
The fact that possessions were swept miles and miles away from their homes isn't all that strange, according to John Snow, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma. He cited one documented case from the 1920s where paper debris traveled 230 miles from the Missouri Bootheel to southern Illinois."It gets swirled up," Snow said."The storm dissipates and then everything flutters down to the ground.
Posten had been tracking the tornadoes that hit the middle of the U.S. Friday night. They came close to where she lives in New Albany, Indiana, across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. So she figured it must be debris from someone's damaged home.
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