Lost Keys Found in Snow – Pell Lake, WI
On January 12, 2024, a severe winter storm was sweeping its way across southern Wisconsin. It dumped around 13 inches of heavy, wet snow and shut down schools and businesses. Bill, like most Wisconsinites, was clearing his driveway and unfortunately lost his set of keys in the process. This was not a usual set of keys. It included two key fobs, shop keys, house keys, and a post office box key. His emergency text went out at 10:00pm to Ringfinder Seth Tost of Lake Geneva, WI.
Ordinarily this might have been a simple search, but Bill did not realize his keys were missing until after he had cleared the snow and pushed it into compacted piles around the perimeter of his driveway, across the road, and 50+ feet down a side road. The keys could have been anywhere.
Seth got the text the next morning and met up with Bill around 10 am.
Some searches that seem easy, can take a looooong time. Others that appear to be a losing game from the beginning, end with that miracle find. Today was that miracle find. After a little over an hour, giving all areas a cursory scan, and digging through a few piles that seemed most logical, the keys were found about 30 feet down the road from Bill’s driveway. The next city snowplow may have pushed them miles from this point. What a joy to return this set of important keys!
Tony was doing some surf fishing in Lavallette NJ early one Saturday morning with his buddies. It was pretty close to high tide when he realized his phone was missing, but he wasn’t quite sure where it could be. He looked everywhere possible when he figured it must have fallen out somewhere in the water while he was fishing. Loosing a phone can be very devastating with all the pictures, videos, and other information that can be stored on them now. Needless to say this was the situation with Tony, especially the pictures and videos of friends and family that can NEVER be replaced. Luckily I was able to locate his phone during the next low tide, about 20′ down the hill, right where the low tide waves were breaking. It was already buried in the sand over 12″, and prob. very close to being lost for ever. Time is so important when recovering lost items in the surf or ocean, that is why you need to call ASAP when an item is lost.
