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����vlog EIGHT NEWS AT SIX. MORE THAN TEN MONTHS AFTER THE MASSIVE EF4 TORNADO RIPPED THROUGH GREENFIELD, FOLKS ACROSS IOWA ARE STILL FINDING DEBRIS IN THEIR YARDS AND FIELDS. ����vlog BEAU BOWMAN SHOWS US HOW THE TOWN IS STILL TRYING TO REUNITE TORNADO TORNADO VICTIMS WITH THEIR BELONGINGS. BO. YEAH. BEN. STACEY. THESE ITEMS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED SINCE THE MOMENTS DIRECTLY AFTER THE STORM. SOME FOUND AS FAR AWAY AS MINNESOTA. OBVIOUSLY, THE FINDS COME FEW AND FAR BETWEEN NOW, ALMOST A YEAR LATER, BUT THERE ARE STILL HUNDREDS OF ITEMS THAT VOLUNTEERS HOPE WILL GO BACK TO THE RIGHT HOMES. THEY FOUND IT OUT IN THE YARD AND STUFF, AND I FIGURED IT WOULD PROBABLY COME FROM THE GREENFIELD TORNADO. ROBERT KOSKI’S HUNCH WAS RIGHT AFTER HIS MOTHER, WHO LIVES IN MINBURN, FOUND THIS PHOTO 40 MILES AWAY FROM GREENFIELD. KOSKI POSTED IT TO A FACEBOOK GROUP DEDICATED TO RETURNING ITEMS LOST IN THE STORM LAST MAY. THE AMOUNT OF FARM GROUND AND STUFF LIKE THAT. UNFORTUNATELY, WOULD ALL GET PLOWED UNDER OR WHATEVER, BUT IT NEVER BE FOUND. BUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS KIND OF NEAT. ����vlog WAS ABLE TO TRACK DOWN THE MAN IN THE PICTURE WHO DIDN’T WANT TO BE ON CAMERA, BUT SAYS IT WAS TAKEN RIGHT BEFORE NODAWAY VALLEY’S PROM NIGHT IN THE MID 90S. HE SAYS HE HASN’T SEEN THE PICTURE SINCE. AS YOU’LL SEE, FACES REAPPEAR. NOT ALL MEMENTOS HAVE FOUND THEIR HOME. WE CALL THEM THE LOST AND FOUND PHOTOS. DANIKA CLAYTON AT THE GREENFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY HAS HUNDREDS OF PHOTOS. ALL OF THEM RETURNED TO THE TOWN BY FOLKS WHO FOUND ITEMS ON THEIR PROPERTY AFTER THE TORNADO WAITING TO BE CLAIMED BY THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS. IT MAKES ME THINK OF THAT DAY, AND IT JUST THERE’S PEOPLE I KNOW THAT I’M LIKE, I WISH I COULD LOOK IN HERE AND SAY, I HAVE THEIR PHOTO. I HAVE THEIR, YOU KNOW, THE BABY PICTURE THAT THEY WON’T SEE EVER AGAIN. BUT HOMES ARE BEING REBUILT IN GREENFIELD, AND MANY FOLKS HAVE ALREADY MOVED BACK INTO THEIR HOUSE. AND WHILE THAT FATEFUL DAY IN MAY WILL LIVE ON IN THE MEMORIES OF THE SURVIVORS, IT CAN BE EASY TO FORGET LIFE BEFORE THE STORM. THESE ARE THINGS LIKE YOU CAN’T GET BACK. THEY’RE MORE THAN JUST PICTURES. THEY’RE PIECES OF LIFE. BEFORE THE TORNADO PRESERVED AS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH OF A NEW COMMUNITY REBUILT ON HOPE. IT JUST BREAKS YOUR HEART THAT SOME OF THESE DIDN’T MAKE IT. BUT IT ALSO JUST LIKE THE HOPE THAT, LIKE, SOMEONE COULD GET THIS BACK. NOW, IF YOU FOUND SOME OF THOSE MEMENTOS WHILE YOU’RE DOING YOUR SPRING CLEANUP IN YOUR YARD, YOU CAN MAIL THEM TO THE GREENFIELD LIBRARY. AND IF YOU’RE STILL LOOKING FOR ITEMS LOST