Winter’s first big storm that blew in late Tuesday through early Friday brought a little more than 5 inches of rain to the area, although Brookings-Harbor is expected to dry out during the New Year’s Eve weekend.

Most of the recent rainfall came Wednesday and Thursday with 1.6 inches and 2 inches, respectively. That was after less than an inch fell during the first 26 days of December.

The average amount of local rainfall in December is 13 inches.

 Although the storm was wet, the winds weren’t enough to cause much damage. Coos Curry Electric Cooperative spokeswoman Christine Stallard said one house lost power in Brookings-Harbor on Friday, but other than that residents here were spared.

“We weathered it pretty well,” she said. “We have not had outages this time.”

 That results from aggressive tree trimming during summer months and a November storm that brought down most of the remaining weak branches, Stallard said.

Farther north, the recent storm had more impact. Outages were reported in Coos Bay and Myrtle Point in recent days, although Stallard didn’t have information as to how many customers were affected.

A call to the Curry County Road Department seeking information about impact to local roads was not returned as of press time.

The past week’s wet weather prompted the National Weather Service to warm of flooding and possible landslides all along the South Oregon Coast. On Friday, Lone Ranch Creek ran extremely high, pooling water under some picnic tables near the beach.

Thursday’s 2 inches of rain, measured at the Pilot’s downtown weather station, was the highest single-day total since April 15.

The peak wind gust at the Pilot was 31 miles per hour.

Meanwhile, a National Weather Service weather spotter on Cape Ferrelo Road, Lorraine Wilkinson, reported significantly more rainfall at her location at 900 feet elevation about five miles from the Pilot’s station.

Wilkinson said she measured 3.42 inches Wednesday, 2.15 inches Thursday, and 6.53 inches Friday for a total of 12.1 inches.

“The 6.53 inches was the greatest amount recorded for one day in the 10 years I have been a spotter,” Wilkinson wrote in an email to the Pilot.

Elsewhere along the coast, the National Weather Service said many locations reported more than 2 inches of rain Thursday with the heaviest total of 3.78 inches at the Elk River Fish Hatchery near Port Orford.

Rivers and creeks were expected to crest by Friday afternoon. The weekend’s forecast calls for sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-50s.

Curry County wasn’t alone in experiencing a dry December. The Bulletin newspaper of Bend reported Dec. 23 that normally soggy Portland had gotten less rain than Tucson, Ariz., as of that point in the month.

Charles Kocher of the Pilot contributed to this report.