The day after the quake, while watching TV, their son Li Chien-ho saw the familiar sign from the family hair-stylist shop collapsed on the road side, and rushed off to get a temporary leave from his military unit to go home. Returning to Chungliao after a five-hour motorcycle journey through the night, face-to-face with his devastated home and uncertain whether his mother was alive or dead, he burst into tears.
小兒子李建河於地震當天下午，從電視上看到熟悉的理髮店招牌傾倒路旁，趕忙向服役的部隊告假返鄉，連夜騎了五個小時的摩托車回到中寮，面對殘破的家園和生死未明的母親，忍不住放聲大哭。