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May 19, 2008

Can you help this photo find its home?

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Over at JournaMarketing, David Brazeal has posted about a mysterious photo he found:

This photo ended up near my home this weekend, after tornadoes hit southwest Missouri and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas. I have no idea where it came from, but it traveled at least 70 miles, I think. It's just one piece of the debris that was scattered across the area...

Area residents have been gathering these lost photos, scanning them, and posting them on Web sites. If people who have lost personal possessions during the storms do search for their photos online, imagine how happy they would be to find these precious, irreplaceable items.

The News-Leader of Springfield, Missouri has an online photo gallery with more than 100 photos found in tornado debris. If you live in or are from the area, take a quick look to see if you recognize any of these people.

This is the first instance I've seen of social networks (I found out about this via a message David sent through Twitter), blogs and Web sites being used to reconnect storm victims with their photos. These simple online tools, already in place, can provide an inexpensive, viral way for many people to assist those affected by natural disasters.

If this photo and its owners are reunited, I'll post an update.

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