It is somebody else's coincidence, and the Bible, which is not overly modest about God's role in things, makes the point clear in this case. You could call it the work of the Lord and you could call it a freak wind, and it is fair to assume that the hungrier the children of Israel became in the desert, the more they inclined toward the second hypothesis. One of the uncanny things about the Bible is the way it repeats upon us Jews. Sharon's mobile-home sites. Even those of us with roofs over our heads don't always see beyond them.
Little problems hide big wonders.
Try the following experiment. Let us not be too hard on those unregenerate Israelites in the desert. At least they stuck it out and did not go back to Egypt, which is more than can be said for some people we know. Hillel Halkin writes for The Jerusalem Report from where this commentary was taken.