It might affect your life because you might not be able to purchase something that you know exists in countries with a free market because your country that has a command economic system doesn't produce it and regulates what can and cannot be imported. Very often such countries also have high tariffs so even if imported, those goods are often expensive. <span />
In the northeast, it usually does not experience tornadoes, it has low humidity and an average amount of rainfall. But the northeast has a lot of winter storms.