Red Bluff and Exploding Windows

Today we were on a trip toward Oregon in our RV.

We had left Sacramento mid-afternoon driving up Highway 99. We planned on stopping in Red Bluff to buy some groceries and then spend the night at a casino in Redding.

In the middle of downtown Red Bluff, while I was looking for a grocery store, driving about 30 miles an hour on the main street of town, my driver side window exploded all over me.

For a moment, I thought we had been crashed into on my driver side, but I realized my mirror was ok and the driver-side window, which had been rolled up, was in a million little pieces all over me!

Fortunately, it was “safety glass” and there were no jagged slivers. I immediately pulled over and checked myself and then checked in with Caren and Coco, who were on the passenger side. Beside, being “shook up” we were all ok.

I stopped at an auto parts store and asked where I could get this fixed and was referred to an auto glass shop on the next block. They were closing for the day and were going away tomorrow and referred me to a place in Corning, California which was 20 miles out of the way, but we headed there anyway to spend the night after making sure the glass repair shop would be able to repair it in the morning.

We checked into Heritage Park RV park in Corning about a mile from the glass repair shop.

I searched the web and found out this has happened to others.

For no apparent reason a window can just explode. Who would have thought?