I get a kick out of the weather stations in the Bay Area. They have Storm Tracker Alerts when it rains and now they are talking about the Storm of the Century. Why ? Because we don't get much change in our weather. Hell we'll go 180 days without rain. So now that they have something to talk about it leads the newscast. Having lived in New England, Chicago, Memphis, Norfolk and spending some time in Florida, this storm would be line 8 in the news.
I agree with Scary that logs floating down the river might be a problem, but the wind and rain anywhere else would be almost normal. As for Tahoe I say bring on the snow. I was up there snow skiing last week and it was pretty sad, they need all the snow they can get. 2-3 feet from this storm and another few few next week would be about perfect.