Photo From Tornado-Damaged Home Lands Almost 130 Miles Away

Photo From Tornado-Damaged Home Lands Almost 130 Miles Away
This photo combo shows Katie Posten holding the front and back of a photograph she found stuck to her car's windshield in New Albany, Ind., on Dec. 11, 2021. The photo is from a tornado-damaged home in Kentucky that landed almost 130 miles away in Indiana. (Katie Posten via AP).
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When Katie Posten walked outside Saturday morning to her car parked in her driveway, she saw something that looked like a note or receipt stuck to the windshield.

She grabbed it and saw it was a black and white photo of a woman in a striped sundress and headscarf holding a little boy in her lap. On the back, written in cursive, it said, “Gertie Swatzell & J.D. Swatzell 1942.” A few hours later, Posten would discover that the photo had made quite a journey—almost 130 miles on the back of monstrous winds.