BLEWETT PASS, Wash. – After hundreds of family photos were scattered across the Blewett Pass by a thief who attempted to steal a storage unit, Washington state road crews came to the rescue and worked to reunite the photos with their owner.
The Washington State Department of Transportation said its crews picked up every single photo and dried them out.
WSDOT posted about the abandoned photographs on Tuesday and said they were dumped after the owner’s storage unit was broken into during an attempted getaway.
The post included two photos.
One photo showed hundreds of printed photographs spread along the side of the road in Blewett Pass. The tree-covered mountains were covered in snow but, luckily for the photographs, the roadway did not have snow on it.
The other photo showed a desk covered in stacks of printed photographs and two damp-looking towels.
WSDOT said the photographs were family pictures from the 1980s and 1990s. It said crews were able to find someone from the pictures on Facebook and connect with her.
“Pictures are receipts of our memories. That’s why we picked up every single one of these,” WSDOT wrote in its post.
WSDOT said the owner of the photos lived out of state but would be “reunited with her dear memories soon.”
“Hey, as the state’s transportation agency, we’re all about keeping people connected. And sometimes that means like this,” WSDOT wrote in its post.
