Long-time California highway engineers say that in no period

Long-time California highway engineers say that in no period did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, nor was there ever a greater mud slide in the region than the one that occurred on May 2, 1983.
(A) did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, nor
(B) had the Pacific Coast Highway taken a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, or
(C) has the Pacific Coast Highway taken a worse battering than it had in the winter and spring of 1983, or
(D) did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it had in the winter and spring of 1983, or
(E) did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it has in the winter and spring of 1983, nor