...it hits me in the head!

It was a windy, windy day today. I was riding East on San Miguel near El Paso Street in Colorado Springs, when I heard a loud smack and felt a hit to my helmet, followed by branches sweeping past the left side of my face. I slowed and then stopped. I was okay, just startled. I prepared to pull back out on to the street and checked my Take-A-Look glasses mirror...except it wasn't there. The branch must have knocked it off.

I dismounted and walked back and forth for 60 feet or so a half-dozen times looking for it, but I couldn't find it. I carry a cable to watch my hemlet cam videos on my phone should I ever need to. I figured I'd watch the video and see where the branch hit happenedand look there. I plugged the helmet cam into the phone and began copying the file, because the phone won't play the video files off a connected usb device (LG G3 Android). And then the camera went into charge mode and sucked the phone battery from 40 to 20 in about a minute.

So I pedaled home with just my bar-end mirror. When I got home I charged the phone a little and copied the video over to it. I drove back and arrived at the location about 40 minutes after the event. I watched the video and walked to the exact spot of the branch hit. I didn't see it, but took three steps and did. It was another 50 feet back from where I thought it may have happened.

The mirror was flattened from possibly being run over, but mirror-up and unscratched. I realize it's only $14...and I have my previous take-a-look mirror at home, but I had a frustrating week at work, and our kitchen is out of commission due to repairs, and I didn't want any more complications in my life.

In an odd coincidence, the branch fell on me within 100 yards of where I saw a Google Street View car earlier on the same ride.