answer:As one who lived in New England for a few decades, I don’t see it as any worse there than it was back in the late-70s. Well, aside from those places that couldn’t be rebuilt, like half of Alstead NH after Katrina washed it into the river… a few miles away. After a while, you build and plan around the worst Mother Nature has to offer. I’d say that the West Coast will suffer worse since one thing I’ve noticed that, at least in San Diego and Seattle, it doesn’t take much for the people on the West Coast to lose their shit. After The Ice Storm of 2008, I had spent the last week in a cabin in the woods with no heat, running water, or power driving a car with four bald tires on roads that hadn’t been fully cleared after 2–3 inches of ice covered the entire region and knocked out power to about half a million people in four states. Everyone was all just going along like it was a mild inconvenience. I fly into Seattle after that and they are all freaking the fuck out about SNOWPOCALYPSE!!! and driving off the roads and all because they got 4 inches of fluff and slush. And in San Doego, a light sprinkle that wouldn’t even be worth turning the wipers on was enough to cause pile-ups every time it rained (about three times in 4½ years), the biggest being 150 cars. So regardless of which coast gets hit worse by nature, the West Coast will be the one that gets devastated.