The first time the power went off it was still light a little and I prepared to run our generator. The power went back on at 6pm or 7. The next time it went off it was just after 9 pm and we sort of resigned ourselves to not having power until morning. My daughter came up to me and said, "Isn't this rain more intense than normal?" And I said, "This is an atmospheric river that is likely a part of Global Climate change and a huge El Nino pattern. We likely haven't ever seen anything like this exactly since we have lived here." We've now been here since 1999 in the summer and she's been here except when she was away in Seattle in College last year.
So yes. This is really intense with heavy winds and trees going down and sirens going off periodically from likely some of the older people not able to deal with all this very well in this area.
For example, if you need electricity to plug in a medical device and the power goes off this could be serious for some people who don't have back up batteries or a gas or diesel generator. Like I said the power has gone off twice so far. But, hopefully it now will stay on the rest of the night so the central forced air heating will work.
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