COINCIDENCE

Norm's brother Joe in Texas has a Toyota that is the same model, year, and color. After the tree limb incident in Eugene, Norm talked with Joe and Joe told him that he also had a limb fall. He had just brought home a new Adirondack chair for their deck, drove the car to the back of the house and stopped under a big oak tree. He took out the chair and left the BIG box by the open trunk of the car. While he went to the front of the house to talk with a neighbor, his wife put the box back in the trunk and left the lid open. The box protruded quite a bit. He and the neighbor heard a limb break and fall and a scream. They ran to the back and Joe's wife was standing about thirty feet from the car and a large limb had crushed the box. The only damage to the car was a small dent in the bottom of the trunk lid.
The same week, we read of two other limbs that fell. One person was killed and the other was in a coma. We count ourselves lucky and blessed.