There are signs for us everywhere, if you know how to look. Coincidences happen strongest when your energy is high, your spiritual vibration has a lot to do with this.
With some skill and understanding you can create a situation like this from scratch.
It's name is "synchronicity" and it is a phenomena that happens all the time, to everyone. Most people are blind to it.
Tom must of been extremely upset to have caused such a powerful reaction in the physical world.