According to Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano, 911 received 4,662 calls on December 27th. Unfortunately many of those may not have been life threatening, and that reportedly slowed EMS response time to 55 minutes, about ten times last year's average rate of response. Cassano told the Post, "While we might expect more calls reporting chest pain as New Yorkers exerted themselves by shoveling snow, our statistics indicate a spike in calls for every category of medical emergencies." Like stubbed toes and being cold. Anyway, if there's a blizzard going on and your kid won't do his homework, you're probably better off calling Amy Chua.