| This is a true story regarding the White family and | | | | naturally grateful that his wife hadn't been impaled by |
| their windshield repair nightmares in Houston. There | | | | shattering glass in the process of hiding out from the |
| are numerous White families with all kinds of White | | | | hail storm. |
| family stories. This particular family we are referring | | | | The sister White called only an hour later, as she |
| to consisted of a mother, father, and two grown | | | | hadn't heard the damage that had happened to her |
| kids, one boy and one girl. Their windshield repair | | | | car while sitting peacefully in the driveway. She found |
| nightmare had more to do with just amazingly bad | | | | the damage when she was readying herself to leave |
| luck than anything. It just goes to show you that | | | | for work. An entire tree had fallen across her car, |
| anything can happen in Houston. | | | | leaving her with no way to get to work that day and |
| We'll call him Papa White for these purposes. And he | | | | a project waiting for Papa White since he could drive |
| was driving off to work one day where out of | | | | by his daughter's house on the way home from |
| nowhere a tree limb fell from the sky. Naturally it | | | | work. |
| didn't really fall from the sky, but from a tree that | | | | The tree was removed and for the second time that |
| Papa White had the unfortunate timing of driving | | | | day, the White family of Houston was in need of |
| under when the tree limb decided to let go. He was | | | | auto glass services. She was the second person in |
| quite fortunate that all he needed was a windshield | | | | the family to require a windshield replacement for the |
| repair and a few minor repairs to the side view mirror | | | | day, and she let out an audible breath of relief when |
| which clung to the car by the threads of the wiring | | | | she heard her mother's windshield replacement story. |
| which controlled and defrosted it. His windshield repair | | | | Of course, there was ample chatter about the luck |
| took the normal amount of time, about 40 minutes | | | | of the White family, as it seemed both amazingly |
| to replace the windshield and a few hours for the | | | | good and amazingly bad simultaneously. Nevertheless, |
| glue to harden up. He felt he was a very lucky man | | | | the auto glass services were able to respond to the |
| that evening, especially since ironically this was the | | | | needs of the entire family that day, and things |
| second tree limb to find him in his lifetime. | | | | returned to normal quickly. |
| It would only be about four months later when the | | | | The last of the White family crisis would happen |
| White family needed to call upon the auto glass | | | | about a year or so later, when the brother White, |
| services company once again, this time for Mrs. | | | | was off with his family picnicking on the lake when |
| White, who was driving along on one of those | | | | the storm came up. Weather events cause more |
| gorgeous bright days. It took less than ten minutes | | | | windshield replacements than anything else. As he and |
| for the bright day to turn sour and to spit out a | | | | his family began to run for the car, a pavilion that |
| storm that could have whipped the fuzz from a | | | | looked just a bit closer and more comfortable veered |
| lamb's back. With all the debris flying around, Mrs. | | | | them from their destination. Not long after the family |
| White pulled to the side of the road. The hail left | | | | reached the pavilion, about the time they would have |
| behind eight large divots on her windshield that | | | | reached the safety of their car, an entire tree fell on |
| threatened at any given moment to break. The | | | | their car as well. |
| windshield repair didn't take long, and Mrs. White's | | | | Of course, this time they were remarkably fortunate |
| stone cold "I can't believe I survived that" look was | | | | not to be in it. The tree, however, did far more |
| thanks enough for those who worked hard to | | | | damage than an auto glass service could repair, and a |
| replace it in a timely manner. | | | | windshield replacement would not have even made a |
| In Houston, weather can turn in a moment, as it can | | | | dent in the damage. The car was totaled, and for the |
| in most places around the world. Hail can be terribly | | | | last three years, the auto glass service has not yet |
| damaging and many windshield replacements are due | | | | heard from any member of the White family. |
| to the little impaling balls of ice. Papa White had | | | | However, they are a constant reminder that plain and |
| shown up just as the windshield repair was complete, | | | | simply, life happens. |