I missed this earlier. I’m very sorry to hear this.
You know, it’s the weirdest thing when you are watching a disaster of this magnitude unfold. I was there for all the California earthquakes back to 1960 something, and I saw people pull together and help one another, and this was no exception. We had three neighbors involved in this accident this time. The one I mentioned lost the mother of the family. A dysfunctional family on every front, the daughter left the night her mother died and went to a show in Hollywood. She had a date. Her dad and brother were in Hawaii. They saw no reason to leave early. So they didn’t come in until today. Another neighbor’s dad was suppose to be on the train. He missed it. His family were so grateful that his meeting ran over. Another family in the neighborhood expected the dad to take the train. He changed his mind before he left that morning and took his car. We didn’t know where he was until he drove up. No one thought to look in the garage. Church today with him was a celebration. You just never know. I was thinking all day yesterday if I was on that train and died, would my daughter cancel a date. Until she walked in the door at church this morning when I knew she had other plans today. I wish I had reached out to that family. Maybe it would have been different for that poor woman on the train. Maybe her and her daughter would have been in Hawaii.