Do tragedy survivors realize how arrogant it sounds when they say "God saved me"?

It comes across very arrogant. Do they even think about the feelings of those who die in tragedies? Did God smite them for some reason? I hear survivors of cancer say that God was looking out for them---what about those who died? Did God not like them? A few years ago, a community in Colorado was completely destroyed by a tornado, everything but one house--which was left entirely intact without a scratch. The residents of the one house still standing declared on national TV that "God was looking out for us," as their neighbors were standing in complete ruin. Don't they realize how harsh that sounds? And realistically, isn't luck what is playing a part when so many other people suffer?