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Old Apr 25, 2018, 07:39 AM
Anonymous57777
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My senior year in high school, a friend and I were thinking about attending Northern Arizona University so one weekday evening she drove us in her Subaru Brat to visit the campus. The road between our house and this university was extremely dead and cold--we did not see a single car that night (to give you some perspective of how unpopulated the place was--the care died south of Happy Jack, Arizona). The engine in her car went dead. We discovered that we could get the engine going when the car was going downhill by putting it in 1st gear but soon learned it would die after a few minutes of running. We turned it around and started pushing it towards home (elevation of our home 5800, elevation of where we were going 7000 ft). We pushed for hours. It was so cold that pushing was the only way to stay warm. On the home stretch, it is all down hill but the curves were even more scary than usual because when the engine died, so did the power brakes which she managed by leaving it in the lower gears and using the parking brake. My dad was a fire chief and pulled many a dead body out of cars/trucks that had gone over the cliff in this area of the road. I never ended up visiting the university because I eventually decided to go to a university located in the desert rather than the mountains.
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