The Atlantic Ocean and our mountains tend to calm the nasty stroms that plague you all in the center of the country. We get some severe storms, but nothing like you all get. Hurricanes are a whole different animal and a great compensator for our normally mild weather.
My local location....6K' elevation
Big valley at the bottom of an east sloping 11K' skyline ridge
When the systems roll in..........hold on........
pic file......looking east......at around 9K'