If you have dropped keys in the winter - in most cases can say goodbye to them, lost in deep snow, especially at night, they seldom are. But not everything is so hopeless! To wait for spring and thawing of snow not necessarily, it is possible to take the advice given below, following to which will significantly increase chances to find your keys.
It is required to you
- Lighting source (lamp or mobile phone), shovel, bucket, fire.
Instruction
1. If you have suddenly found loss of keys and are sure that they have dropped out during snow, stop and attentively examine snow around. If on the street it is dark - include small lamp or the mobile phone and smoothly light in radius of 1 m around yourself. Find look deepening or failure on snow, and then get closer to him approximately on 30 cm (not to fill up with snow). Carefully feel fingers (it is desirable without gloves) this deepening in search of firm objects. Having hooked on keys, carefully, without sharp movements (otherwise it is possible to fling away inadvertently them to other place) extend them from snow.
2. If you did not manage to find keys here, so you have dropped them on the road. Remember the passable way and note places where they could drop out (on which frozen pool you have slipped, subject behind which you have bent down, etc.). Return and examine these places in the above way.
3. If such search has not brought result - pass all way, carefully examining snow crust on sides of the road. Also do not forget to watch to yourself the step. If the road was long and keys, for your reasons, could drop out in any its place, then think whether there are they the spent efforts. If you consider that stand - continue search.
4. If route section on which you have lost keys quite small (for example from the parking of the machine to the house) arrive as follows: take shovel and scoop snow, small shake it backwards-forward that snow gradually dropped out of it on the earth. Carry out this action with top layer of nearby snowdrifts, then (if there have not found keys) scratch out top layer about paths or platforms on which you stand and sift snow in the same way.
5. One more way - take metal bucket and make fire near the expected place of loss. Fill bucket with snow and put it in fire. wait when snow melts and will become rather liquid. After that slowly pour out water on the flat platform without snow. In the course of pouring out or in already formed pool look out for keys. Repeat this procedure until you find keys or do not make sure that they are not in this place.
6. The last way - in case you have not found keys any of above-mentioned ways, wait for spring. Examine the place of loss when snow descends.