In the 21 years I’ve lived here, I’ve had part of my porch roof removed, had neighbor’s trees come down, block in me and my other neighbor without power for a day, and seen a whole lot of rain and flooding. I’m ready to move back north and stare at a blue sky and a field of snow the next day.
I lived on the MA/NH border. We had a few hurricanes. The street was a little weird, and we were one of three houses that got power through the backyard neighbor off a main drag.
I think it was [a?] Hurricane Bob that felled that neighbor’s tree, snapping the power lines at the houses on either side. The treed neighbor had a punctured roof and lost his standalone garage, including car.
Ours, it snapped the supporting guy wire a couple of inches from the house, that is to say, leaving the eye-anchor firmly in the house instead of pulling it out or worse. Bent the conduit going into the meter, though.
We had power for a couple of days, supplying one neighbor until the tree guys went to work and realized the downed power line was still hot.
Had to run a couple of heavy duty cords to a house two doors away for just the chest freezer after they cut the power.
Propane grill and a NG water heater took care of the rest, save for batteries, candles, and lamp oil.
I think the repair crew in our area was from TN, or some Southern state.