On Friday, two other Y Camp staff and myself were traveling to Viroqua Wisconsin for a staff retreat. Just before crossing the border into Wisc. the car started to make a funny sound. Dave thought it sounded like a squeaky belt. We travel about 6 more mile to the town of Prairie Du Chien and stopped at Cabelas. We opened the hood and everything appeared normal. We left cabelas and on the way out of town had to go up a pretty steep hill. As we were going up the sound became worse and worse so once we reached the top of the hill we decided to turn around and head back to town to a mechanic. Well, we never made it back down in the car. In the matter of 30 seconds, all the lights on the dash lit up one by one, the car lost power and the next thing we know, a vehicle in the oncoming lane flashed its lights and layed on its horn. We pulled over, opened the doors to find smoke and flames coming from underneath the vehicle. We threw everything we could out of the vehicle and then watied for the fire department to arrive. They got there pretty quickly. In fact everything happened pretty quickly. Everyone and most of our belongings was safe. Like Dave says, it was just a car. Watch the video below to see the damage.
