With the big wind storm we had in December 2018 here, it was 7 to 10 days for a lot of the small outages on side streets to get repaired. I think a lot of people got generators for Christmas that year.

Models initially converging toward a Midwest based cold wave. Still time to keep it west with a stronger block.

Is there any reason to be concerned that this winter could be a 2020/21 repeat in the PNW? I remember that was a classic Nina/+QBO but the PV went super strong and as a result, the winter mostly failed apart from the brief cold snap in February, which was a result of of the late January SSW event.

I had the anemometer up occasionally feeding data here in Black Diamond after the power went out on a battery bank and we were sitting at 40 mile an hour sustained winds when we got the gusts at least to 60. The damage is pretty crazy, neighbor had a tree come down right in the middle of his truck

This. Pretty much D**n near entire cities down here are out, the transmission lines just north of Lake Sawyer and my place were quiet. It's widespread right to the substations themselves here. The linemen out here are in force and working, they deserve all the hot cocoa this winter