Metal detecting after tornado

I'm over here in emory where the bad tornados hit last weekend in Canton, Fruitvale and emory. Ive been going out to the destroyed homesites and doing what I can metal detecting to recover wedding rings, heirloom jewelry and coins for people who lost everything. Here are some picture from a GREAT trip I had Monday where I was able to recover a newlyweds engagement ring, wedding back and lots of other jewelry. I now have other detectorists volunteering to help me and we have a list of properties we are detecting over the next week to try and recover more lost items.

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That's awesome! Too many people would take advantage of the situation to make a buck. It's a great thing you're doing for the people that lost everything. I know they'll be very grateful. Good man!

Good thing you are doing there.

exactly

when you are doing it for the fun, try to find where the out house was on old home steads, honey pot, pardon the pun

Good job!

Outstanding job Nathan!

That is outstanding Nathan. Well played. That young brides smile is priceless.

Way to go Nathan What you are giving back to those folks will be treasured forever

that's really cool, and great that your doing that to help. great job

How do you match up the property with the owners?

You're famous already!

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/05/12/stranger-tornado-victim-recover-precious-items/

Awesome work Nathan!

Well done, sir.

How many snakes have you found?

Metal snakes....

X1,000,000

Nice!!

Are all 8 of my photos showing? Its messing up for me.

Pictures from today. I had two detectorists come out for the day to help me today. We found gold and silver jewelry, Lots of coins from a coin collection including morgan dollar and quite a bit more. Both places were still covered in debris so I will have to go back after its cleared because I know more is there. Glad we were able to return what we did.
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Yeah the story of finding the rings for that couple kind of exploded. Three different news station have conducted interviews and aired the story. 105.3 radio did an interview and did the story on the radio and yesterday I got a call from Good Morning America. They have a video and article on their site and yahoo news. Now, two more news stations are wanting to come out and film at one of my searches. Its been absolutely nuts.

Good things usually happen when you do the right thing.....especially a very special service like this saving cherished memories for people who thought they were lost forever....and if not for you and your friends, they would have been....

Cheers to y'all Sir!.....

Great job I am sure the people are your thankful

Saw Nathan on channel 3 news out of Shreveport La this morning.
Thanks for helping these folks.

Cool thing your doing

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You are one awesome man! Thank you for being so.

Appreciate your service....military and to your community!

Man, you're really famous now. You popped up on the weather channel app..

That's crazy. The weather channel is going to do a bigger story on it, they are doing an interview with the couple and me on Thursday.

I'm doing another search tomorrow in Canton, hoping to find lost wedding rings in the debris. Hopefully I don't get rained out.

That's so generous of your time and sacrifice. I bet you are making tons of lifetime friends.
A saint among the snakes. Keep your eyes peeled in that tall grass.

Great job Nathan! Your kindness and generosity will be returned to you tenfold.

It would be cool if someone said "Hey I saw you on tv, I have this amazing historic property you can come detect anytime" LOL

Very cool. How do you find the owners?

Heard the story yesterday on the country radio station "Doc and Kelly". Good news travels fast and it's a good thing you're doing.

They are contacting me. The very first one I did which is the story that had made the news, they posted on facebook about the lost rings and I contacted them about trying to detect for them. Since the news has spread, everyone else has been contacting me. The requests for help are still coming in.




At the search yesterday, I was moving aside some debris and came within about 6 inches of grabbing a young copperhead. Luckily, it wasnt riled up and didn't strike at me.

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I drove thru there yesterday morning going from Kilgore to just south of Canton and then back......amazing to see the degree of damage first hand....and I never got off I-20 or 19.....

I drove thru there yesterday morning going from Kilgore to just south of Canton and then back......amazing to see the degree of damage first hand....and I never got off I-20 or 19.....
Little Broad-band....pretty one.....watch where you step and reach.....

God bless you Nathan. Keep up the good work

Good Job !!!

Went back out today to one of the places I hit last week. Weather was a lot nicer. Found a very cool 14K Gold watch. Its a Hamilton 19 jewel from around 1940. Also found Silver ring, earing, silver coind, and a lot of other stuff.





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Nathan you are a hero. True american helping out fellow citizens

Very generous of you Nathan.