MOORE, Okla. — Some of the photos are crumpled. Others coated in crud. But what the monster tornado couldn’t obliterate are the memories captured in the images.
A girl playing kitchen with her pink toy stove.
Colleagues clowning around the office.
A father posing with his young girls at a daddy-daughter dance.
Angela Madory examines photos she recovered. (Jason Sickles/Yahoo News)
“These are things insurance can’t replace,” says Amy Habegger-Pierce.
Habegger-Pierce, her mother-in-law and a friend were scavenging downtown Moore for photos on Wednesday.
Like crime scene detectives, they wore rubber gloves and gently rummaged through debris left by Monday’s 200-mph twister, which damaged or destroyed 13,000 homes.
“It’s hard to tell if it is trash or a picture until you flip it over,” Habegger-Pierce said.
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Volunteers rescue photos from Oklahoma tornado debris
Yahoo! News (blog) Both women are teaming up with National Disaster Photo Rescue, a nonprofit started by Thad Beeler after the deadly Joplin, Mo., tornado   |
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