For me, it's waking up in Northern California in the morning (anywhere between 7:30 and 8:30 am) and walking outside on my redwood deck and it is actually warmer outside than inside my house. Only the wind is blowing hard and it's raining outside. But, outside of the rain drops being smaller than one would see in Hawaii (in the tropics rain drops are huge) One big rain drop can ruin your whole outfit if you are wearing nice clothes. So, the biggest difference mornings during this series of atmospheric storms would be the size of the raindrops which are smaller than they would be when I lived in Hawaii. I'm not saying something like this is going to happen this year. However, because this historically happens every 150 to 300 years just remember 150 years was already 3 years ago.
However, the thing that people actually should consider if this atmospheric river continues is possibly preparing for something like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862
1 Background; 2 Oregon; 3 Idaho; 4 Northern California; 5 Flooding of the ..... From1861–62, the state capital was moved from flooded Sacramento to San ...
www.sanjoaquinhistory.org/documents/HistorianNS5-4.pdf
In 1861-1862 the California Gold Rush ... achieve safety from rising water. Floodsproduced the rich alluvial deposits in .... magnitude of the flood of 1861-62.
www.scientificamerican.com › ... › Web Exclusives
Dec 18, 2012 - Today, the same regions that were submerged in 1861-62 are home toCalifornia's fastest-growing cities. Although this flood is all but forgotten, ...
tenaya.ucsd.edu/~dettinge/Dettinger_Ingram_sciam13.pdf
Jan 4, 2013 - the Pacific Ocean began to pound central California on Christmas Eve in 1861 and continued virtually ... Was the 1861–62 flood a freak event?
In 1862 the Sacramento River was 20 miles wide. A useful comparison might be to look at Catalina Island from Long Beach or Los Angeles. It is approximately 26 miles wide from the closest point to shore to Catalina island. Now imagine the Sacramento River being only 6 miles less wide than that.
At that time we changed from a cattle state to a farming state between 1861 to 1862 because all the cattle, barns, fences, and everything that could float or be washed away did including horses, chickens, pigs, sheep, everything into the ocean and was lost forever.
There is an interesting commentary about a man riding a steamer named Gem I believe up the Sacramento River and picking men off the tops of Trees, Barns and two story or more houses that hadn't washed away yet then in 1862.
This bankrupted the state of California for several years and the capital had to be moved from Sacramento for a few years by boat to San Francisco because it is higher up on hills there near the ocean and Sacramento the city could only be navigated by boat for a very long time then.
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