Blitzer tells atheist tornado survivor:"You gotta thank the Lord"

Then shes not an atheist if she believes in a higher power that dictates when her "time to go" is.
Not neccessarily. "Not your time to go" does not mean its pre-determined at all. It simply means it wasnt the end of her existence. Now whether or not there's a reason it up to you to decipher. Purely by chance do you die in something catasrophic. One person can die by something when the next doesnt which equates to chance.