[...]freak snowstorm that caused a 7 day multi state wide power failure affecting most of those states population on the east coast and that made many roads impassible for days[...]
Thing is, none of that stuff happens in developed countries.
yeah i get that the usa is backwards in many ways but its power infrastructure is fairly good, if aged.
anyway here is the storm i mentioned. it was kinda cool in many ways (well, not for the unprepared which was like 95% of the population that was affected by it) and was a good test of my disaster planning (ie barely any effect on the wife and i)
i had two telephone poles lying in my side yard. leaking transformer goop. they sent a crew to dig all the contaminated soil out and replace it. i have some really surreal pictures of the damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Halloween_nor%27easter