The US was hit by dozens of major hurricanes from 1899 to 1996. Those were just weather, but two major hurricanes in the last 12 years is climate.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov:80/img/climate/severeweather/2hur9996.gif
Note that New England was hit by two major hurricanes in both 1944 and 1954, and none since then.
