The Cavalry Isn't Coming

[Bitter Creek]

"Finally I woke up enough to recognize that I was in deep shit and the cavalry wasn't coming so I better do something about it myself." - Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

Share an example of when this was true in your life.

 

[shortbus]

Oh hell I don't think we have enough time for that!

 

[tcpoke]

"Finally I woke up enough to recognize that I was in deep shit and the cavalry wasn't coming so I better do something about it myself." - Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

Share an example of when this was true in your life.

Great book!

 

[CowboyJD]

"Finally I woke up enough to recognize that I was in deep shit and the cavalry wasn't coming so I better do something about it myself." - Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

Share an example of when this was true in your life.

Honestly, I've led a pretty blessed life. I don't know that I've had such a situation....at least when talking about actual physical danger perspective.

 

[nathajw]

I can't think of a situation where I was in fear for my life and had to do something.

I have been in two big car wrecks where both vehicles were totaled in both of them. The "this might be it" split second feeling is something I never want to go through again. Thankfully nobody was seriously hurt in either of them.

 

[Bitter Creek]

I can't think of a situation where I was in fear for my life and had to do something.

I have been in two big car wrecks where both vehicles were totaled in both of them. The "this might be it" split second feeling is something I never want to go through again. Thankfully nobody was seriously hurt in either of them.

Car wrecks are pretty crazy. We tend to become very comfortable flying down the road with hunks of steel all around us, constantly changing road conditions and driving scenarios. It is amazing to me that humans can freakout at seeing a little garden snake and yet fall asleep in a car.

 

[Bitter Creek]

For the record, I've never been is a situation where my physical life was in a life or death situation and I had to act, on my own, to save it.

I am just really intrigued, as I think many of us are, by people that who have ended up in those scenarios and the way they responded to them.

 

[Deepfork]

Does this count??

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[Bitter Creek]

You were on that flight? Yo no comprendo

 

[Deepfork]

You were on that flight? Yo no comprendo

Yes. I was sitting in seat 2B.

 

[dtspoke]

Yes. I was sitting in seat 2B.

What!?

 

[Deepfork]

I climbed out that crack behind the cockpit and jumped off.

 

[dtspoke]

I climbed out that crack behind the cockpit and jumped off.

Stop messing with me.

 

[trapped_in_tx]

Yes. I was sitting in seat 2B.

Wow. I've not experienced anything similar to that and I hope I never do.

 

[Deepfork]

Stop messing with me.

LOL, all true. I've still got my boarding pass around here somewhere.

 

[dtspoke]

LOL, all true. I've still got my boarding pass around here somewhere.

Holy moly.

 

[nathajw]

LOL, all true. I've still got my boarding pass around here somewhere.

Do you still fly? Did you know you were going to crash or did it just happen so quickly?

Those sound recordings of someone right before they head to the next life always get me. Some of the 9/11 911 calls that are happening when the building collapses really really get me, Kevin Cosgrove's haunts my mind to this day.

 

[nathajw]

 

[Deepfork]

That animation isn't totally accurate. Acctually, the plane hit the ground and skidded 3 times and a much more considerable distance. Also, the plane broke up between the wing and the tail. The back emergency door was jammed shut and couldn't be opened and every one in the back was overtaken by smoke and fire. Nathajw, everything happened pretty quick but me and the guy sitting next to me knew something was wrong soon enough to tuck our heads between our legs. Everytime the plane hit the ground, everything in the plane would fly over our heads into the bulk head. When it was all said and done, that debris was what we climbed up on to emerge out of the fuselage onto the top of the cockpit. And yes, I still fly when I need to but I don't like it. I rarely fly for pleasure trips. As Jesus said, "Low, I am with you always"!