We handle a different type of weather issue for about 100 days a year.
The thing of it is that, it is more talk than not. Northeasterners are more or less not as used to handling “weather issues” than those from other parts of the country.
What? Are you serious? We get it all here in the northeast. I’ve seen tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, multi-year droughts, ice storms even an earthquake. You know not of what you speak. Until very recently, the highest non-tornadic winds on earth were recorded here in New England. In 2010 I had ten foot snow drifts in my driveway with sub zero temperatures. I’ve seen high temps exceed 105 degrees in the summer.
Don’t confuse the northeast with five boroughs in south east New York.