We New Englanders are made of sterner stuff. I remember Hurricane, Carol, Hurricane Diane, Being taken out of my house in a BOAT by the Red Cross, the Blizzard of 78, the Great Blackout, the Great No-Name Storm, The Perfect Storm (immortalized in a movie), and numerous hurricanes, Blizzards, white-outs, brown-outs, black-outs, floods, the Great Chelsea Fire of 1973, High Tides, beached whales and dolphins, and Barney Frank.
New England is used to disaster! :-)
It takes a lot to stir you from your homes, I do know that! :)