Since I got lots of messages in the past few hours asking if I'm fine: I'm in Jerusalem, and the only explosions we had here today were the independence day fireworks.
I missed an earthquake here in the 90s when I was in California, and some of Boston's heaviest rainfall when I was in London. Then there was the winter when Boston had no snow until March, when I went to Finland for two weeks and missed all of that winter's snowfall. So this fits the pattern.
Ten years ago (March 2003) was when I experienced this feeling first, of hearing about a terror bombing in a faraway home, when there was a suicide bombing of a bus in Haifa on Moria Blvd in Haifa by the entrance to Carmeliya, my childhood neighborhood. Coincidentally this Monday, the day before the bombing, was my first visit there since then. We at falafel at the corner of Moria & Rachel, which I think is either the corner where the bombing happened, or one bus stop away from it. Monday the 15th, we started the day in that neighborhood (we were staying with my cousin's friends who live a couple of blocks away), and then got into Jerusalem in the evening just before the Boston bombing happened (Israel being +7 hours from Boston, it was 9:50pm there).
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Ten years ago (March 2003) was when I experienced this feeling first, of hearing about a terror bombing in a faraway home, when there was a suicide bombing of a bus in Haifa on Moria Blvd in Haifa by the entrance to Carmeliya, my childhood neighborhood. Coincidentally this Monday, the day before the bombing, was my first visit there since then. We at falafel at the corner of Moria & Rachel, which I think is either the corner where the bombing happened, or one bus stop away from it. Monday the 15th, we started the day in that neighborhood (we were staying with my cousin's friends who live a couple of blocks away), and then got into Jerusalem in the evening just before the Boston bombing happened (Israel being +7 hours from Boston, it was 9:50pm there).