Also NE Portland here. Wind is blowing pretty hard at times, snow mixed with ice, power has flickered a couple times. A friend a couple miles away has lost power. Another nearby had meaningful branches from their tree come down in backyard. If wind keeps up after trees are iced, we’ll have a lot more power outages.
I have my generator ready to go and enough gasoline for 24 hours runtime.. Disconnected my furnace from mains power, installed a temporary pigtail, currently plugged into the generator circuit’s outlet and running fine. If we lose power, I can plug the pigtail into my generator and at least keep the house warm. With a couple more cords I can run my modem/wifi, charge phones, etc. I still haven’t installed the transfer switch, so have to do the extension cord spaghetti for now.
I know it looks jerry-rigged, but with the panel back on everything is covered except the ground. I’ll restore it to normal after this storm.