Americans who’ve been through natural disasters or extreme weather, what is/was it like?

I’m originally from CA so we got the occasional wildfire (though calling some of them natural is debatable) and earthquake but not usually anything big. I know there’s states that get tornados, hurricanes, weather below 0 in the winters, flooding, extreme heat waves etc..hell I’d never even been somewhere actively snowing until I went to IL so I can’t imagine what some of that other stuff is like.