LAGRANGE, Ky. — On Dec. 10, multiple deadly tornadoes moved across Western Kentucky causing catastrophic damage to numerous towns. Many people returned to the place where their home once stood to find anything salvageable.
One LaGrange woman was able to reunite two families with lost pictures found in the storms just a week after the tornado hit Western Kentucky. Amy Williams found one of the photos next to her chicken coop.
“I thought 'Oh wow that's interesting' and so I picked it up and I thought 'Oh this kiddo doesn't look like anyone I know, I’m wondering if it's the neighbors grandkids but he doesn't look familiar to me,'” Williams said. “So I bring it inside, it's about dinner time and I show it to my husband and he said I wonder if that came from the tornado.”
It's a picture of a boy and his first deer that traveled more than 100 miles from Dawson Springs and landed in William's backyard in LaGrange.
“I just felt amazed, I just thought of all of the little things that could have tripped this up, all of the little things that could have gotten in the way of a simple paper picture not making it here so many miles away,” Williams said.
Little did Williams know that her son, Lee, found a similar photo at the ballpark when searching for a ball.
“We were throwing on the field and then it bounced at the turn right there and went over there so I checked over here and it wasn't there and then under the seats, wasn't there and then my dad, Mac and me walk over here we couldn't find the ball and then I found a piece of paper before we saw the ball,” Lee Williams said.
Two photos from two different households both without a single rip or tear.
“It was kind of shocking for this to go really far away,” Lee Williams said. “Sometimes it can tear up a little bit in it and I didn't think I was going to find this here.”
Amy Williams then posted both of the photos to a facebook group called “Quad State Tornado Found Items” and was able to locate the owners in a matter of hours.
“This is a precious memory of a boy who got his first deer hunting and I'm able to send that back to the mother and with the other picture it’s going back to a family who lost their mother in the tornado,” Williams said. “So it kind of gets me in my heart and I'm just very thankful that we were able to find the pictures to send them back.”
A picture worth a thousand words and in this case it was as the Williams family was able to send back the photos to their rightful homes in Dawson Springs.