{"id":20893,"date":"2020-07-17T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"highway-husky-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/highway-husky-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"High(way) Husky Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 10:00 last night Marie and I were traveling west along I-40 taking a pair of Huskies to meet their transport to NJ when the truck’s engine died.\u00a0 Timing chain (belt) broke, I think, but I’ll leave that to the professionals at Eastport Exxon to figure out.\u00a0 With cloudy skies it was really dark out there, a Thursday night: heaviest night of the week for semi traffic, which were whooshing by just feet away from us, rocking our truck with each pass.\u00a0 The Huskies were scared and screaming their heads off.\u00a0 If you’ve been around Huskies you know what I mean.\u00a0 It’s a Husky thing.<\/p>\n

What do we do now?<\/p>\n

Marie started praying.\u00a0 Always a good place to start.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I called the Cocke County Sheriff’s Department.\u00a0 Although they were short handed and quite busy, a Sheriff’s car came up behind us to run flashing lights so no semis smashed us.\u00a0 Deputies Alex and Heath turned out to be dog lovers and were not gruff with us at all for asking for their help.\u00a0 In fact I think they enjoyed getting to see the inside of a rescue transport vehicle set up so animals can be taken in and out easily yet ride securely.<\/p>\n

That transport, which we were supposed to be meeting at a truck stop on I-81, came to us (which meant going on to Newport, turning around and coming back to where we were) and we transferred the dogs.<\/p>\n

The driver of this transport, Melinda, was having a horrendous night before I complicated it further.\u00a0\u00a0 Before she got to Nashville a tractor-trailer truck went off the road and burned, closing I-40 for an hour and a half while crews got that put out and cleaned up.\u00a0 Then she hit another traffic snag in Nashville, so the rendezvous that was planned for 8:30 pm got shoved back to 10:30.\u00a0 There was another wreck that slowed traffic after she left here and headed north, so it was a rough run for her.\u00a0 We work with a couple of other transport services, and I’m not sure they’d have been so accommodating if all this had happened to them.\u00a0 So, Thank you Melinda!<\/p>\n

Hartford Towing sent a rollback right out there to snatch our truck from the roadside.\u00a0 And Tim Holt came out, even as late as it was, to give us a ride home.\u00a0 All coordinated perfectly (thank you God) so the rollback did not show up before Melinda got there, which would have left us standing alongside the Interstate with Huskies on leashes in the dark, being buffeted by tractor-trailer wakes.<\/p>\n

\"Huskies<\/a>
Adam and Cyrus: bewildered, but safe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our truck is out of commission until it’s repaired, which might be a couple of weeks: they’re backed up too and I didn’t think to schedule this event ahead of time.\u00a0 But no one was hurt, the dogs got where they were going, we met a couple of nice Deputies, and … it WASN’T raining!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About 10:00 last night Marie and I were traveling west along I-40 taking a pair of Huskies to meet their transport to NJ when the truck’s engine died.  Timing chain (belt) broke, I think, but I’ll leave that to the professionals at Eastport Exxon to figure out.  With cloudy skies it was really dark out … Continue reading “High(way) Husky Adventure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19,59],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-adventures","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20893"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20905,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions\/20905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}