It's Christmas Eve! Strong storms start arriving on Christmas Day! Can we call agree that this is bad timing?

• Christmas Day, a strong storm with a lot of moisture will affect the entire state/region with another three back-to-back medium to strong strength storms Thursday- Sunday.
• Wind gusts here of 30-40 mph possible 4:00pm Christmas Day to 4:00am Thursday Dec 26 and up to 25 mph outside of this time period. Always best to be prepared for a possible power outage.
• Total rainfall through Sunday 3-5". Rain develops Christmas Day between 9am-noon, heaviest rain (2-3") occurs 4:00pm Christmas Day to 8:00pm Friday (may be a brief break or let up of the rain Thursday afternoon/evening). Friday night through Sunday can add another 1-2" of rainfall with a couple of breaks possible.
• Snow levels bounce around at 3500-5500'. Four to Five feet of new snow at the higher elevations!
• Some flood potential exists around creeks / streams / rivers due to the excessive rain coming in and some melting of lower elevation snow.
• Monday we start to dry out, but by then we will have had 3-5" of rain in just five days!
• Colder temps expected overall Dec 30-Jan 7 and there may be some nights of freezing or near freezing low temperatures. A weak to medium strength storm possible Jan 1-3, doesn't look like a lot of rain, snow levels could be 2500-3500' at the lowest.