The following winter I was riding on Amtrak from Southern California to Illinois (the old Santa Fe route). There was an elderly lady on the train who had decided to leave LA because of the earthquakes and was headed to Fort Worth. Apparently she had not contacted anyone there, but her wedding had been in Fort Worth in 1911 and there had been a lot of people at the wedding, so she was sure she would find someone she knew.
Ah, for a simpler time.