It's just rain. Not as intense as I have seen some storms. Constant, though. But, still, just a little rain.
Now, if you want to discuss what kind of knuckleheads build and live all the way up to the foothills where they keep the mudslides, or down to where all the basins drain and they keep all the flooding, or damage tree root systems to install a pretty driveway then wonder why their trees fall over, then you got something worthy of a story on the local news. Heck! They need to generate advertiser money somehow! Fantastical, "end of the world" stories seem to do that.
