Saturday, October 6, 2012 we watched the morning session of General Conference and then headed out to the Farmer’s Market. We had a wonderful time and even got some good food.
On the way home Magnus fell asleep, so when we got home we laid him down for his nap. We were going about normally when, after about 10 min, our doorbell rang. It was our neighbors saying our car was on fire. I ran out and saw smoke billowing from under the hood. I tried to open it, but the latch wasn’t working. Ruth called 911 and I got things out of the car. The neighbors moved their cars out of the way. Very soon the flames came.
When the firemen came, they had to saw the hood in two to get at the engine. It was strange to think it was actually happening. It took a few minutes to put out all of the flare-ups, and then the horn began honking continuously. The firemen ended up pulling all of the fuses and clipping all of the wires to finally make it stop. One said that he had never seen a car fight so hard to stay alive.
We have owned this car for just over five years and it has been very good. We got it just after an accident wrecked our first car. Though the car wreck was bad, it ended up being a blessing in disguise. So, that is how we are looking at this one, too. No one was hurt, and only the car was destroyed. Plus, if you have to lose a car, at least it was spectacular.
We said goodbye to our Buick Regal. Magnus got to push all the buttons he wanted.
And after some shopping around, we have purchased a Dodge Grand Caravan. We hope this one treats us well.
The question is, how will it top a four car accident and a fire…?
1 comment:
oh noes!!
sorry to hear about your car,
yay for a bigger car, we have thought about buying a van, we will need one if we have any more kids, but we are not there yet
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