Car Troubles

As Brynn was getting to the school yesterday, she noticed that the car was overheating.  She parked it in the shade and went inside to practice while the car cooled off.  When she came out 4 hours later, she noticed that there wasn't any coolant in the overflow.  She just figured that there was a leak, filled it up, and started driving home.

She didn't even make it a mile before she noticed that the car was overheating again.  She pulled into the Fry's parking lot and called Seth to come get her on his way home from work.  He picked her up, and they went home for dinner.  

They went back after the car had a chance to cool off again, and changed the radiator cap (which is a common problem with camrys).  They started driving home again, with Seth following, when it started overheating again.  This time MUCH worse that before.  Brynn freaked out and pulled over on the freeway.  Unfortunately, they were in the left lane to get on the I-10.  They parked on the left side of the road, and hopped up on the median to call AAA.

Seth and Brynn parked on the freeway.

Since we were in such a weird spot, AAA suggested that we call the nonemergency police number to help direct traffic.

After about 20 minutes, a nice policeman pulled up and offered to get a traffic stop for us to move the car across the 4 lanes of traffic to a bigger shoulder.  

We hear "Are you ready on the 60?" come from the radio.  The policeman says "Yes."  All of a sudden all of the traffic slows down on the freeway, and several police cars with lights on and sirens blaring starts weaving across the lanes of traffic to slow everybody down.  We moved across the freeway, and then the cop wished us luck and drove away.

Sorry for the terrible picture. Brynn was trying to be inconspicuous as she snapped a picture of the tow truck.

After standing on the freeway for another half hour, the tow truck shows up. We got a tow to the mechanic, and it looks like we'll need a new radiator.  At least we can say that it was an adventure.