While winds and rains walloped the area and caused power outages in Portland, Clark County residence seemed to have missed most of the mayhem.
Dispatchers with the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency said Friday morning that there were no major problems overnight from the storm. Clark Public Utility’s website shows no outages as of 6:30 a.m. Friday.
In Oregon, however, Portland General Electric reported that more than 4,000 customers were without power at 5 a.m. Friday. Pacific Power reported that 2,800 customers in coastal communities had no lights, down from a peak of more than 15,000.
Portland had the rainiest Oct. 13 in its history and the National Weather Service said a 103-mph wind gust was recorded at Cape Meares, Ore.
The National Weather Service predicts 100 percent chance of rain for Vancouver with winds around 14 mph and gusts as high as 20 mph.
The weather service predicts that the worst of the storm has yet to come. A high wind watch has been issued for the Clark County area Saturday night with potentially damaging winds reaching gusts of 55 to 65 mph.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.