The group has created a Facebook page to try to combine the tornado victims of Thursday's pictures, documents and other personal effects, be blown away by the storm.
The page, titled "Images and documents found after the tornado of April 27, 2011," allows members to post pictures of things found their email addresses in the hope that valuables be reunited with their owners.
New page Wednesday evening. Friday at 5:30 p.m., there were over 50,000 "likes" and displays over 600 images of found objects, including a child Raggedy Ann general, a mortgage document Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, and an image of an embryo ultrasound .
Description page is simple:
"Please send photos or other objects that were found debris after tornadoes 27/04/2011," the bed. "Please leave a brief description of how someone can find you if they identify pictures or objects belonging to them."
missing items were probably swept away by the storms hit Alabama and other southeastern states late Wednesday and early Thursday, killing over 270 people and destroying entire towns and neighborhoods.
page builder, Patty ingots, said the inspiration for his entry into the worst of the storm on Wednesday pastabout flew 10 miles from his home in northern Alabama.
"When it went over us, is literally just started to rain images," he said. "We had parts of Bibles, hymn books. ... I just started saying:" It 's part of the lives of people falling from the sky. ""
Ingots, said that since the afternoon of Thursday, 13 papers were identified and addressed their owners.
But sending quantities of Facebook is another, less practical significance. When considered as a gallery, the photos create a stirring testament to a strange power of the storm and devastating the lives it affects.
A group of young soldiers in camouflage desert pose to the camera in a photo. Another is a blow struck and rain sprinkled apparently a beauty queen and mother.
A directory of pages signed, apparently 60 years, shows a group of children ogling a classmate. A snapshot of a torn receipt of Smithville, Mississippi, was sent by a user in Franklin County, Alabama.
"You just know these are the valuable assets of people," said Bullion, which was supposed to start working at the municipal government of aging this week, before arriving late in the storm.
"If they have lost everything and can only get a picture back, I know it means a lot to me."
Sometimes the bitterness on the Facebook page directly.
A photograph signed check 1981 $ 29.40, which is made and the Farmer's Supply Co. Then the comments section of this photo:
"This control is for my brother of his father. (The signer of the check) died in the tornado. I know you mean so much to his son and his wife to get back."
raw emotion of someone else was visible in his post on a photograph of a reception shredded.
I have prayed for (the person whose name was a receipt), "he wrote." I do not know, but I pray he is safe. I found this receipt in my front yard this morning. I live 58 km away from Crestline in Birmingham.
"Alabamians are suffering from their homeland and pray to find a way to put everything together. I do not know if this is important for him, but struck me deeply."
Anyone who has found useful personal belongings in the aftermath of tornadoes can also send photos or videos of them to CNN's iReport.
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