That snippet didn't really give the full story. The usual policy now is that once winds get too dangerous, then 911 calls will have to wait until conditions become safe again. Until then, yeah - the first responders will be hunkered down.
This is the time where a godly U.S. President would come before the American people and offer a prayer to God for the safety of our country . . . alas! we do not have a godly U.S. President.
It would also be an ideal time to beg God’s forgiveness for saying that Jerusalem does not belong to Israel.
But praying to Allah isn’t going to help a lick . . . Allah would love to turn the storm around and direct it straight toward Israel - if he were real, anyway.