Attendees of this year's Ossipee Valley Music Festival might remember the biblical deluge of Saturday afternoon: three inches of rain came down, flooding the roads higher than the tops of my boots. I didn't learn until later that evening that the drain down on the drag strip had been clogged and my car was half-submerged. By that point, the drain had been cleared, but the damage was done. I drove the car to high ground, where it died at the gate at 9:30pm on Saturday. As I couldn't get a tow until the next day, I spent a very nervous evening at the barn dance, and learned on Tuesday that the damages ($44k) would total the car. I'm making this fundraiser to ask for help affording a new vehicle. I am a carpenter's apprentice, not overburdened with cash, and currently I'm spending 2.5hrs a day on public transit (by car my job is only 20min away) and have no means to leave my immediate area. I bought this car last September, brand new after driving the same beater my whole life, and emptied my savings to be able to afford it (I put down $7.5k at the time and have paid down another $6k since, and all that equity has gone quite literally down the drain). It was a plug-in hybrid that averaged 85 mpg, and as an environmentalist I desperately want to keep driving a low- or zero-emissions vehicle, but the government EV incentives that helped me buy sustainably the first time around are only usable once a year. Even if I buy a combustion engine, I'd been intending to drive this car for twenty years and had been investing in it as such; my coffers are too empty right now to buy anything at all reliable. I can afford to put $2k of my own cash towards a new car - I'm hoping that my fellow festivalgoers and other friends can rally to help me make up the difference, and maybe even enough to buy eco-friendly again. Raising $2k would be enough for a solid down payment on a reliable gas vehicle, and with additional funds towards a down payment I could potentially afford to buy a hybrid. I've been going to this festival for many years and found really great community here, and it would mean the world to me to feel that support around me in this time of crisis. Thank you ❤
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