Samson
Póg Mo Thóin
Technically the last hurricane level storm that hit the great lakes was in 1940, known as the Armistice Day Storm. Considered the 4th most powerful storm on the great lakes ever. There was also Black Monday on Lake Erie in I believe 1873. One of the most destructive storms in terms of lives lost. The 1913 Lake Huron Storm which sank 11 steel long ships and 3 of which with no survivors, driving over 20 ashore.
Yes, I am a hobbyist great lakes historian in regards to shipping and disasters. The hurricane level storm that sank Big Fitz in 1975 was not hurricane level on Lake Erie, but sure was on Lake superior.
So, yes, we DO get hurricanes up here. Very localized in comparison is all and not so seasonal. About one every 20-30 years. Oh, and we tend to mix our "Hurricanes" with blizzards up here.
So, that's all you got?
Look I'm sure you've had a couple of really bad storms during the past 200 years, and a couple of ships sank, and it made people sad.
But I'm talking DISASTER here: Something that displaced hundreds of thousands of people and caused tens of BILLIONS of damage.