Power was out for awhile where I live in northern California

I was only able to see the power was back on because our security cameras were working this morning on my smart phone. I hadn't thought of learning about it this way before. There have been many trees coming down and power going off we learned from our housekeeper and the house sitter we have watching our home near San Francisco too. 101 was closed on Saturday both directions for about 10 hours as well near Santa Barbara and at one point both 101 and 5 were closed for various reasons so it wouldn't have been easily possible even to travel from northern California to Southern California very easily on Saturday at least because of mud and rock slides and possible snow on Interstate 5 over the Grapevine and mud and rocks there too. I was watching mud coming down Trabuco Canyon on one of the videos and also watched mud come down a street bringing rocks and trashcans at high speed while taking out bushes too. But, luckily people knew to park there cars in their home garages rather than put them on the street so cars and trucks weren't washed down the street as well with the mud and rocks.

So, we were very lucky to travel south through Santa Barbara to Orange County on Friday so we just barely made it before the rain began about 10 pm Friday night here in Orange County.

California is a place where we often get 15 or 16 inches of rain in California over 2 or 3 days. There are very few places like this in the U.S. by the way. It might not rain for 362 days straight and then you might get 16 inches in 2 or 3 days here in California. This is just something you have to get used to if you live here. And while this much rain comes down some people usually don't survive it when they get caught in Flash floods and are buried by water, mud and rocks or their cars are taken down normally dry riverbeds to their end. But, like I said you have to be aware of what can happen when you get 16 inches of rain and you have altitudes in a state from well over 14,000 feet all the way down to 200 to 300 feet below sea level in some deserts.