Photo Missing Since ‘98 Tornado Returned To Owner
Published: April 19, 2006
When a tornado hits, objects as big as trucks can be picked up and thrown hundreds of feet and many smaller items can end up miles away.
When a tornado devastated St. Peter, Minn., in 1998, a little league photo was lost. A farmer nearly 100 miles away found it in his fields in River Falls, Wis.
After eight years, the picture is back with Mike Scrove, where it belongs.
“You look back and it’s unreal,” Scrove said. “It been tough but time heals.”
Scrove lost his house then and was happy to recover one of his photos he lost in the storm.
In the image, he was one of the coaches and his son was a player.
“It’s definitely mine,” Scrove said. “It brings back some memories. It brings back that day (and) how it all happened.”
The farmer who found the photo said he came across it in the fields two weeks after the tornado. He held on to it all these years and was not sure what to do with it.
Three weeks ago, a friend of his said he had friends in St. Peter who may recognize it.
“All of their efforts of saving these photos all of these years paid off,” Faith Wicklund, a friend of the farmer’s friend said.
She brought the picture to the hometown newspaper. The paper found Scrove and put him and the picture on the front page.
“It makes you think back about that day and how far we have come since then,” Scrove said.
That same farmer also found a child’s picture in his field in 1998. It’s been in the same newspaper, but so far nobody knows who the toddler is. The picture looks like a Valentine and a drawing of a teddy bear is on the back.
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