I don't think you understand travel distance and time. That's like, a third of the entire country. Denver Colorado is a roughly 19 hour, 1300 mile drive from San Jose. That just barely creeps into 3 days if you drive 8 hours each day.
You are basically saying "8 hours is nothing especially if this Rrat is true and it's an organized attack. you MIGHT have a leg to stand on if they're traveling from somewhere between the Front Range of the Rockies and the Mississippi River."