Dude you're lucky! In LA all we get is sun sun and more sun. Do you know how boring that is? "It's the middle of winter and we're all still at the beach surfing!" IT'S SO BORING! Even guys who are at the beach 24/7 want a bit of snow or rain!
New York had tornado in Sept. on the Labor Day West Indies carnival parade. I can't find any coverage on that tornado, it was a bad storm, five people died on that day.
I was with my pregant wife when this happen I used to live in the city in mahn... And yea we were walking n the sky turned black out of nowhere n we knew this was not normal .. N yea it was very heavy rain...