Exactlly. Here in my little part of the rural West we had a 6.3 earthquake a few years back with barely a mention on the news; 100 winds that toppled trees and took roofs off of homes and businesses - dead silence; and a flash flood last year that knocked cars and simi trucks off the road closing the main highway with four feet of mud for four days. I listened in vain to hear anything about it on ABC Radio News.
It's a shame we that are east of the Mississippi hear less of the rural West and more from the dysfunctional elements in urban locales like San Francisco. The media industry, news and entertainment, sees no value in publicizing the healthy and wholesome.
100 winds that toppled trees and took roofs off of homes and businesses -
A real storm unlike what ended up hitting NYC! We had a windstorm last year, not as strong as your's, but frightening just the same. A tree came down on my brother's house next door. And it's an eerie sensation in the night hearing trees cracking in the distance and hoping one doesn't come down on your roof.