What Has Been The Most Terrifying Moment In your life on the Peoria.com Forums - Page 2

PDC Seal

@Pock:

Okay its time for a couple of diet Pepsi's and a talk.

@meanjarhead:

lol..?

@Pock:

What did Seal do ?

@Msgem:

He was a friend. Someone at the end of a phone, that I could bounce the many many,mixed emotions I was having off of. There is only one thing in this world that has the chance of truly Terrifying me, and it is the welfare of my children. Some of the things they were testing my child for and had concerns about was enough to put me in a grave.

The time my youngest almost choked on a piece of plastic from a juice box straw that she found on the floor. She was 7 months old. The Husband saved her while I cried into the phone to the 911 operator. I thought we were going to lose her for sure. He's my hero.

@froggy:

I couldn't image going through that.

Recently when I thought my 7 y.o. had wondered off while we were at Grand Bear lodge. He needed to go to the rest room. We were sitting at the kid pool right by the rest room and figured we would see him come out. After a few minutes had gone by and I hadn't seen him, I went in to the rest room and couldn't find him. I thought for sure he was gone. I went out the other door and asked the person at the counter giving out the towels if they'd seen him come out. About that time a guy that seemed to be in more of a position of authority was coming into the room. I grabbed him and explained what was going on and he got on the phone. I walked back into the water park area and saw my son across the way. I don't know how the heck he walked right by us and we didn't see him.

My wife's heart attack

Basic Training didn't scare me. The most scared I've ever been is last December, when I tearfully prayed to the God I didn't even believe in to end my life.

@Pock:

A man can not ask for more to have a friend like that in he time of need. Seal is a good guy. Glad your son turned out OK.

it involved a UH-1 Army medevac helicopter that I was piloting. I allowed the medic to convince me that if we did not load all 3 victims on board, the one left behind would surely die. The aircraft was overweight for the conditions, but I conveniently ignored that small fact. Following that poor decision came about 10 harrowing seconds where I realized I had jeopardized the lives of all seven people on the aircraft.

We were executing a vertical takeoff out of a confined area at night, and the power required to perform the maneuver was beyond that available from the engine, so the rotor RPM was dropping, a phenomenon known as "settling with power." Add to that the fact this was in the desert outside El Paso, Texas, an area not known for lush vegitation. The rotor wash stirred up enough dust that we browned out and I couldn't see.

Terrified does not begin to describe it. Bright flashing red warning and caution lights on the instrument panel with warning horns in the headset are not the way to fly close to the ground. When we broke out of the dust at about 50 feet, I had room to maneuver and get the aircraft out of it's own disturbed air, which allowed us to climb.

We came out of it unscathed, but I was changed forever as a pilot.

Most upsetting thing I've witnessed: I saw a dead guy who had OD'd. He was sitting in a camping chair about 30' from me. A girl kept trying to prop him up but he would just slump back over. She started screaming for medics. They gave him CPR for 15 minutes even though he was already dead.

Most terrifying experience: Hanging out of helicopter taking photographs. The doors had been removed and there was nothing but a seat belt (with no 2nd point of attachment; just the single click type of seatbelt - like a car but without the chest strap) keeping me from plummeting to my death. The entire first hour of photographing I was debating being asked to return to the ground.

@AV8R - I had no idea about that. Had I met you yet? I'm sure if I had I would have read you the riot act for that.

@froggy:

Don't make him sleep on the couch. Most of us think he is a good guy.