Enough rain, coming in sideways for long enough and it will eat the mortar from between bricks, cause foundations to settle, resulting in cracked walls. Add high winds and it is very damaging to structures, infrastructure and big trees. We had it here in 2007 (IIRC) with hours/days of torrential rain training up from the Gulf. Our little river was a brown raging torrent for several days. It changed course and trees came down for several days afterward. In the aftermath, we found damage we hadn’t conceived of before, but, luckily, it was fixable.
I’d rather have a snow blizzard than a heavy rain train. Add that even fresh water spray from a large lake or river will cause damage, over time,I can only imagine what high wind-driven salt spray can do. I’ve been told it will peel paint.
The river towns along the Mississippi are all on bluffs, with retaining walls behind the buildings. After a prolonged saturating rain, many of those walls can be breached or overrun by mud and downed trees.
Besides geography lesson, I can see how devastating it looks.
I can't imagine dealing with the snow. I'm southeast Texas so snow is very rare and melts within the same day it snows - everyone runs outside like "what is that white stuff?"
They say 2 feet in some areas. D-A-N-G!