Well, It's No Plane Crash

The Miracle Miner, Randy McCloy, is heading home.

"Our family is glad to be going home," [his wife] said. "Today is another part of our miracle, just three months after the accident. However, there are 12 families who are in our thoughts and prayers today and every day."

That makes the score, 1 smitten, 12 smote. I hope they don't have any trouble finding their way home since

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin also announced that the street leading to McCloy's house is being renamed Miracle Road[...]

Now, Randy can relive his nightmare every time he leaves the house or gives someone directions to his house. The street the other miners lived on will, apparently, remain Tragedy Trail.

In other good news, McCloy appears to have retained all the knowledge of his West Virginia schooling. When asked whether he would return to mining he responded,

"No, I done learned my lesson[...]"

Additionally, neurologist Julian Bailes, also of West Virginia, said

"I think he's a got a great potential for a complete, possibly complete, recovery." [Bailes also suggested] "genetic individual variability" might help explain McCloy's survival. Bailes also cited other factors, including that McCloy was about 1,000 feet away from the miners who perished[...]

I was a mere several hundred miles away from the epicenter of this tragedy and, I believe, this may completely, possibly completely explain my own survival.

In related news, the Hlatfields have ended a temporary truce in their feud by firing muskets and yelling "Yee ha!"