Thu, Nov 26 2009
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Papers, pictures, checks strewn across wide area by May 10 tornado They found tarpaper, half of a recipe card, part of a tax form and, in the middle of the road, a perfect check.
“It was from 1993, made out to a school for $16.50,” Short said. “There was nothing wrong with it. The ink wasn’t smeared or anything.” Short said she recognized the need for careful handling of the check because one of her co-workers recently was a victim of identity theft. She also said the image of objects falling out of the sky was bizarre. “You’d look up into the gray, misty, low-lying clouds, and things would just start falling every now and then,” she said. “You’re thinking, ‘How close is that thing if there’s stuff falling out of the air?’” A Springfield couple doing yard work found two photographs belonging to Picher residents Jack and Rayma Redden, whose home was destroyed May 10. Robyn and Alan Bates found the photos stuck together back-to-back, wrapped in shredded photo-album plastic and spattered with bits of mud and leaves. One shows the Reddens wearing matching sweaters on Christmas Day 1971, and the other shows a young girl holding a doll on Easter 1972. Web site link KY3 News out of Springfield has a section on its Web site called YouNews. It’s dedicated to viewers’ photographs and video clips taken from mobile phones or digital cameras. In the days after the tornado, contributors began to post pictures of debris found in the Springfield area. A check from the First Baptist Church in Picher was found in Phillipsburg (southwest of Lebanon), 119 miles away. A business card for a Picher asphalt paving and repair business was found in Springfield. A photograph showed up in a back yard north of Marshfield. “We don’t know how far it traveled,” wrote YouNews user Liza Jane. “It looks like a family vacation photo. We would like for the family to have it.” The cover page of a Seneca family’s policy with Cameron Mutual Insurance Co. was found in Ozark. One of Cameron Mutual’s specialties is tornado insurance. Other postings on the Web site detailed debris found in Billings and Republic. Gene Hartley, online news producer for KY3, said YouNews has become a popular part of the Web site. “People started contacting us Saturday evening (May 10) almost as soon as the tornadoes touched the ground,” Hartley said. “A lot of the things are mementos that we hope get back to people, but we’ll leave it to individuals to sort that out amongst themselves. 
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