Reply To: There are no coincidences so what's the connection

This is a job for a Navi. Don’t start making a gezeira shoveh of “Sandy-Sandy” and say they are connected. Ask the gedolim what this means and perhaps your local rav, who is all that we have left in the absence of Nevi’im. Now, I could be wrong, I’ll admit it right now, but I don’t think you can start assuming the 2 events are automatically connected because they share a similar name.