Mary, we do have an occasional tornado, once a decade or two.
Yet, our snow totally intimidates the rest of the country, even though it can be shoveled out of the way, and melts away all by itself in the spring.
They’re not really tornados but a microblast or two (I don’t know if that’s what it’s really called but it does damage in a small area). We have had some rainy seasons where some serious flooding takes place in again a small area. Where I live, the small lake on the edge of town floods once in a great while into the land next to it which is near campus. We’ve had some nor-easter’s that we’ve had to plow through to get home from dialysis, but we’ve always made it.