Had a feeling, follow it and saved someone from harm?

I have and here is one of many:

My niece wanted to leave the skating rink one night with two boys. She was 16, but I threw a fit, I was scared to death to let her go. Needless to say she got very mad at me, stomped off. I felt like crying for up seting her, something I had never did before.

Next morning she called me telling me both boys had been killed a few miles out of town. If I hadn't said something, she would not be here today. So what's your story? 🙂

Awesome story, Snowqueen.

Too bad about the boys but it sounds like you listened to your guardian angel.

Now isn't that just weird karma working there?

I've never had life saving intuitions, but I've had feelings that I followed and things worked out because of it.

Stefan

As an engineer, sometimes you have a feeling about how your steam plant is running just by the sound. One night as we were steaming west, I toured my steam plant and was hearing a high pitched sound I had never heard before. I looked and looked, but did not find aything unsual. But, we snipes just know sometimes that this is not the normal operating sound. I turned the watch over to my Senior Chief at midnight, describing what I had heard and he said they would continue to investigate and I went to hit the sack.

I showered and crawled in my skid at about 1 am. I slept hard for an hour or so and I can't explain why I woke up. I just did. As I woke up, I had a strange feeling, like I was helpless. Like I had to do something, but I didn't know what. Then I remembered, I had heard an unusual noise in my plant, so I threw on my coveralls and headed back down to the plant. As I got to the bottom of the ladder, No. 1 ship's service turbine generator (supplies 2500 KW electrical power to the ship) tripped offline. I hauled down to the lower level where the TG was and there was steam shooting from the inlet side of the throttle valve. The lower levelman could not get to the isolation valve from where he was standing because of the steam leak. The Senior Chief was screaming over the plant communication curcuit "lowerlevelman, what's going on down there" I was standing where I could isolate the leak and I shut the isolation valve, and the leak slowly stopped. The lowerlevelman explained to Senior Chief what happened and we were able to keep the plant online only because I was able to secure the generator isolation valve in time. The entire engine room would have filled with steam in a matter of minutes and it would have been a major casualty if I had not been able to secure the valve.

I can never explain why I went back down there. I guess I was still bothered and consumed by the strange noise I had heard. It turned out that steam began leaking slowly between the gasket and seating surface of the flange on the inlet to the throttle valve and it was cutting the seating surface. That's what caused the whistle I heard. Once it started, it progessively got worse until it blew. We should have found it. It should never have gotten to the point it did. But, I guess it happens for a reason.

I'm retired now and I will never forget that night.

Oh yes!

When I was a very young boy, back in the days when TV's only picked up 3 stations (ABC-CBS-NBC). Stop laughing, some people may not remember those days!

Dad had bought me a BB pistol that looked like an old western revolver.

Well to make a long story short, I was watching an old John Wayne western and I was helping him shoot the bad guys, with an "unloaded" BB gun. Well my first shot killed the bad guy and the TV! Yes sir'ie! A nice 'lil hole the same size as the BB just right of center in the picture screen! OH GOD! I cried, my dad's gonna kill me. God wasn't listening to me at that time, because the TV didn't heal itself...

Well, I hid the TV in my closet under some clothes, that saved me from harm for a few hours! I expirenced many "life learnings" from this one incident. The most important, being that all guns are to be considered loaded!

Oh BTW, there was no child abuse back in those days and yes, it was along long time before I could sit on myash.

"Now isn't that just weird karma working there? "

It could be Stefan and I'm glad it was, but that's not the only time it's happened:)

Herfsnipe: Great stroy, something like that can drive you crazy! It's a good thing you woke up!

MyAsh, MyAsh, a lot of things are learned just like that. I do feel sorry for that little boy! I bet that ash was red! lol

By the way, this is kute:)

I was in a car accident while I was home on leave from the Navy back in 1987. There were 4 of us in the car... the driver was a dip****, so I don't even know WHY I rode with him...

He was following another car to a party and he was in the right lane on a 4 lane road (2 lanes each way) when he made a left turn across traffic. We got t-boned by a camaro that was speeding and it crushed his car between itself and a telephone pole... the other 3 guys were out cold and had to spend at least one night in the hospital... I climbed out the broken window as soon as the dust settled.

When the cops showed up a few minutes later... if it wasn't for two witnesses that saw me climb out of the car, they never would have believed that I was in it.

I had a sore elbow for a few days... one kid had a collapsed lung, the other lost a kidney and the last had a concussion and stitches on his head.

Hey Snipe... being a former BT2 and BTOW, I know exacly what you said!!

Bloody:)

My guardian angel,yes it had to be:)

He hangs around me a lot!

MAC, you were very lucky! Thank you for the story:)