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No doubt it should be considered extreme weather. But since things like this happen with regularity, the infrastructure should be engineered to handle it.
It’s likely cheaper for them to ignore the problem, however.
There is no place on the planet that is hurricane proof. They're the most power thing on planet earth. Texas is infrastructurally in the dark ages but California would be left in the dark too if a catogory 1 or 2 made direct landfall. And I say this as someone who's lived in the mid Atlantic
Climate change could change things, but California's history of hurricanes is pretty okay. Better than Texas, anyway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes
In recorded history, California's only had one hurricane to ever make landfall, in 1858
Yes, though a tropical storm in 1935 killed 45 people, and we get storm surges from hurricanes that remain at sea.