Remember that in Palo Alto, CA, most homes were built without A/C like Portland too. The summers were sweltering in PA in recent memory (2012-2018).
Wichita Falls, TX used to be "the tornado capital of the world", but now it's Berkshire, Greater London, UK.
https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-city-tx-wichita_fall...
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/tornado-capital-w...
France: 15k heatwave deaths in 2003 due its unexpected nature, 1.5k in 2019
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The underlying issue is increasing weather variability. It is a symptom of a lack of latitudinal stability in jet-stream patterns. This is caused by the climate change warming (increased absorbed system energy) of the Arctic. There will be a blue ocean event there very soon since ice is already <5k km^3 in the summers. What this means is wilder weather (and storms) everywhere.