PK Umbrella saved my windshield Options

[Sea Dragon 914]

I live in a two story house that sits on top of a 3-garage. Last weekend I was working or replacing the railing on my second floor balcony (I have an lower balcony which is on top the garage and the garage sticks out about 10 feet from the front of the lower balcony. The upper balcony is only above the 2-car portion of the garage. I didn't move my Auburgine 914 because I figured if anything fell off the balcony, it would fall straight where the drive way was clear. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Anyway, I was removing an old section of the railing when my 16 ounce claw hammer fell off the deck. It bounced on the tiled slanted portion of the roof outside of the first floor balcony. When it hit the roof, it bounced sideways towards the third car garage where my car was parked. It was like in slow motion as I watched the hammer hit the center of the windshield. Earlier in the day I folded up the sides of the umbrella to allow the car to air out. Well, the hammer hit smack center of the windshield where I had left the umbrella. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/new_shocked.gif) All I could think when I saw the hammer hit was Oh s--t!

I ran down the stairs to check the damage. When I removed the umbrella, no crack! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rocking nana.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/monkeydance.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dancinnanner.gif) The only thing that happenned was that the rear view mirror fell off which was fine bacause it was glued to the wrong place and I was trying to figure out how to get it off to center it correctly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) Now all I have to do is to clean it up and re-glue the mounting pad on the right place.

Talk about being lucky! When I work on the balcony next weekend, I'm moving the car.