Well, well... it seems that the law of averages is catching up to me. It seems this 2nd half of the year, I've been suffering damage to my car in contrast to relatively accident-free months and years previous.
The latest calamity to befall me:
My car just got bashed by a falling tree branch as I was driving to work, this stormy and windy morning. Fortunately, I suffered minor damage, as far as I could tell. I managed to drive around much of the fallen branch (fortunately, no oncoming traffic as I swerved into the other lane).
It was one of those classic moments... I could see the branch coming off the tree and falling in front of me seconds before it landed on the road. There were other branches branching off from the main one, so I couldn't just drive over it. The obstruction stood a couple feet off the ground.
My hood has some dents. I can still open it. My windshield is smashed in the lower right-hand corner. (Trace fragments of bark embedded in the glass.)There's a fingertip-size dent in the body, or sill, near the windshield impact area. Not big enough, it seems, to hamper removal and replacement of the windshield. But, the paint is chipped off.
And that seems to be all the damage I can see. I guess I'll take another look before I call in the claim to my insurance agent.