Thank you for your much appreciated thoughts, mightymoose. Good news... We took the car to a mechanic yesterday, and found that it was only a hose that was damaged... a far less costly repair than we thought it would be.
I'm having difficulty determining who (and/or at what portion) would be liable for a recent accident my girlfriend had with a snow-covered decorative rock on an area of land that juts into a turn on a condominium driveway.
Photo links are at bottom of this post.
Our first major snowstorm...