Perils of Mountain Driving

My wife and I were returning from a skiing day at Mammoth Mountain, California, when we saw a car on the opposite side of the highway with a huge plume of white cloud rising from its hood. My ever-helpful wife asked me to somehow cross the divider and help them out since, as she put it, "We have a gallon of water in the car." I crossed the highway, illegally I may add, and rushed to help. The driver was a single lady who was confused by all the steam. I circled the car and realized that her car was on fire, and what we were seeing was smoke, not steam. We took all her possessions out of the car and put them away from the now furiously burning car. She was from Bishop, the nearby town, and had a full tank of gas that exploded into a fireball after ten minutes. The car burnt to a crisp, and we kept her company till her son and husband showed up. I video taped the entire burning and made a movie of it that I sent to her later. I also added Beethoven's Symphony #6, 4th movement, also know as "Storm" as the background sound. She sent us a gift certificate to Schatt's bakery as a thank you.