That’s nice and all that, but it almost seems to suggest that God cares more about symbolic statues than about human beings and their homes.
I’d rather put it down to, “Stone statues don’t burn and aren’t damaged by water.”
Or maybe God sometimes leaves something like that behind to remind us He still loves us.
Well, in a way that's true. Not the statue itself, but of that for which it stands. He is reminding us of that which is eternal and infinite (in her capacity for grace), and at the same time illustrating the transient nature of the temporal (for those who had forgotten). Of course, He cares about human beings and their dwellings, but His Divine emphasis is on the Soul and its Eternal Home.
Now, had it been made in China (plastic, styrofoam, etc.) it would have landed in some yard a mile away. And the folks there would have declared it an image fallen down from heaven and made a ‘grotto’ for it.
For comparison...How many grave stones in the cemeteries blew over in the storm.
It withstood a flood (stones are used for ballast not buoyancy). It withstood a fire (stones are used to cook on not fuel to a fire). The window screens and singed paper towels (probably ‘Bounty’ since they are tough) should have a shrine since they are the ‘miraculous survivors’ it seems.