Two people were killed by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm hammered the Pacific Northwest. In Bellevue, a tree fell into a home, hitting and killing a woman while she was in the shower Tuesday night,

Meantime, two very different areas, 1,200 miles apart, managed to eke out some fine surf from the beast of a storm: Vancouver Island, on the tail end, and Ventura County as the swell filtered south. Here’s a quick look at both.

Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that meteorologists usually call bombogenesis. It’s the rapid intensification of a cyclone in a short period of time, and it can happen during powerful storms such as the one northern California and the Pacific Northwest are preparing for this week.

Resources are spread thin as utilities scramble to shore up their perforated transmission lines and grid experts say their work will increase in the future.

Six days after the bomb cyclone storm hit western Washington, first responders are starting to tally up the kinds of emergency calls they've answered, with more than 250 being for downed trees.