Since their house in Puerto Vallarta was indeed close to the endangered sites, did they have to recite every day the Birkhat Hagomel during the disturbances, as they were saved then?
A. This case is similar to one who experiences an extended sickness and he then recites that blessing when cured and out of danger.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a