Frozen Flash Card

Nine days ago in Claremorris having parked my car in the snow I got out with my camera and a number of things balanced on a book in my right hand. I dropped several things and thinking I had retreived them all from the snow I continued in what I was doing. It was only later in the day that I realized I had lost a 4GB Flash card full of pictures. I did look for it the next day but in 5 or 6 inches of snow it was impossible to find. So I put it out of my head and forgot all about it. Then this morning as I got into the car in Claremorris I noticed what looked like a small piece of paper on the ground, I bent down and was mildly pleased to find it was the flash card I had lost over a week ago. I say mildly pleased because I assumed that having lain in the snow for a week and in two days of rain it was unlikely to be working. I placed it on the dashboard so it would get the hot air from the car heater and drove home, I then put it into the hotpress for the day and this evening still not expexting anything I put it into the camera and low and behold it worked !! The card contained 268 images not all works of art I would have to say, but I did like this one taken near Mulranny on 23rd November!



For those of you who are interested the card is a SanDisk Ultra 11 4GB