I will admit, I was out of town during last week’s storms, attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but from what I heard while in Sin City our poor, dear coastal North County was all but obliterated.

 

“El Niño is here!” my wife texted me, saying the whole family was holed up and she was making chili. “I sure hope the lights don’t go out.”

 

I made light of her concern and received a stern rebuke: “You’re not here. You don’t what what it’s like. This is serious.”