HAPPY FUN FREQUENCY FRIDAY!!!!!
Now it is always a
good thing to listen to that intuition of yours.
Please bear in
mind this is LONG before I became a professional intuitive. This is
before I even started learning about intuitive abilities or
anything metaphysical. I just knew it was there and we (my
intuition and I) were at a standstill at that point in my life for
the most part.
One night over 20
years ago I am still so, SO thankful I did just that! Sometimes you
find out really quickly why you needed to listen <3
It was a dark
night, but not a stormy one. My friend had asked me to bring my
girls over to her house for a little Christmas get together. We were
going to meet a few folks and have a bit of dinner. My work shift
was running late that night unfortunately. This year I had taken an
additional job at a store in the mall for Christmas money for the
girls. I called her on my new Nokia ( :D ) that we were going to be
running late. The girls were soon ready and we set off for our
drive. It was a good 7 to 8 miles away her home up on the side of a
mountain.
As we started down
Alcoa Highway, I kept feeling we needed to get gas. In fact I kept
hearing “Get Gas.” Due to our running late already I said to
myself I’ll get it when we come back. Looking at my gas gauge
repeatedly, I knew I had enough….I thought “I know how much is in
here and we have enough to get back down the mountain.” We kept
going as I passed station after station.
Now this was an
older car, about 15 years older, a great little blue 1986 Chevy
Nova/Toyota Tercel. (If you know about cars of that time, same model,
different sticker, LOL!) It was a 4 door and with all of us it was
packed. With myself and 3 teenage girls, this little car was buzzing
down the road. I passed almost every single gas station of which
there were many. Then as we came near to the second to the last
station I heard strongly.
“Get Gas NOW!”
and I wasn’t sure if that was outside or just inside my head it was
so loud and strong. I jumped a little bit hearing it!
That made me LISTEN
and I pulled over into the second from the last station I would pass
on route to Terrie’s house. My slightly less than the 8th
of a tank obviously wasn’t going to be enough for some reason. I
took the time and filled up, went in and paid (yes you could do that
years ago). Off we went on our journey.
Once I filled the
tank, no more anything about the trip. I felt odd it was such a
strong urging, but I knew to listen if it was that strong. As we
turned down this extended mountain road near Rockford you could tell
by the snow flakes hitting headlights it was a cold winter night.
Leaves were long off the trees now and some were scurrying across the
road as if they had to change sides in a hurry.
We arrived and had
a wonderful time. As it was a school night, I wanted to get the
girls home in time for anything necessary before the next morning.
Homework was a key priority in our household. I told my friend I’d
look after her house when she was away for the holidays and off we
went.
I don’t remember
which one of us noticed it first, but we were all kind of shocked.
The girls knew I stopped for gas because of that inner prompting.
When we reached the intersection of that mountain road and Sevier
Highway, the lights were oddly off at the gas station. As we drove
we realized all the lights were off for the most part down that road.
When we turned onto Alcoa Highway, even the lights across the river
were mostly off. In fact, we realized only emergency lights were on
in places.
ALL the gas
stations were closed. There were no lights on in stores, houses, or
shopping centers and everything was closed.
As we drove, I
turned on that good old fashioned thing, the car radio. The news
anchor was on instead of music and told us why everything was without
lights and power. There was a substation that went out in South
Knoxville and everyone in South Knoxville was without power. My jaw
opened wide!
Had I not listened
to that voice of intuiton, the girls and I would have been stuck on
the side of the road or had to walk a fair few miles from home! This
we discussed because my youngest said loudly, “It’s a good thing
you got gas when you did Momma!” She asked me how I knew and I told
them. There was a “Whoa, that’s weird” said a few times.
We arrived home
safe and sound. As I drove around the back I kept the high beams on
my old farm house back door. Our two Basset hounds let me know they
were upset with no lights or heat! I got out of the car, and
unlocked the door. Then I had the kids come in and lit candles.
After that, I went back out to the car to listen to the radio just to
see if I could hear when they expected power to be restored.
We took the dogs
out for their last of the night walks. Flashlights in hand for that.
Thankfully our Basset hound babies were sweet and easy dogs, NuNu and
Coppertop, did their business had a couple of Whoops and came back in
out of the cold. Up on my sofa bed they landed ready for cookies and
night time cuddles!
The cats headed for
the girls rooms away from the doggy whoops and barks. They found
their spots in good measure under the covers with the kids
eventually.
Another things to
be thankful for was that we had 2 Kerosene heaters that we lit for
warmth. That old farm house may have been a cabin once but the
drafts were enough to keep you cold no matter what if we’d not lit
the heaters. We had candles in special spots to avoid fire
potentials and readied ourselves for bed.
Thankfully I
listened to that inner (and a little outer) prompting for gas that
night. I said a lot of thank you’s then and even today. That late
at night, with everything closed there wasn’t much traffic and we
would have been stuck or had to walk for a few miles late at night.
As it was, we made it home safely, our fur babies were all right and
we had a good night.