Maybe all our prayers lifted up for these people can alter the storms that are in their hearts and souls!
or maybe the prayers were, and are, for protection of the people who were in the storms way, for the protection of the first responder, for wisdom for those in charge of the recovery...noone thinks that God would move the storm from one city to another. We pray as people have prayed for generations, that the Creator God Who sustains us, will protect us.