Being thankful when prayers are "answered" and hurricanes move away [View all]

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(I'm pretty sure this is my first post in the religion group. I'm not trying to be too antagonistic, but I guess my questions could be viewed that way. I don't have a particular faith and, as far as I know, I don't pray.)

When Hurricane Dorian started trending east and moving away from Florida, I saw a lot of posts on Facebook about prayers being answered and reminding us that prayer works.

My questions:

* Does a higher power hear and act on prayers if they're heartfelt enough or if there are a sufficient number of similar prayers?
* If the prayers did indeed affect the path of the hurricane, and, subsequently, a different area gets hit by the hurricane that would not have been hit it if the path had not shifted via prayer, does that mean the newly affected area didn't pray enough or with sufficient faith and vigor?