Shameful. I have never seen anything like that. Normally he would be surrounded with people helping him and religion has nothing to do with it. It's good you were there.
Now, about the snow - same attitude here and Ottawa gets ice storms too. After our great ice storm, the slightest sign of freezing rain was met with whines of here we go again. I have to point out that a "storm of the century" is not a yearly event.