Although we had an inch of rain in the front yard, with winds of 60 mph, we didn’t suffer a power outage. The storm lasted two hours, and it was one of those where the thunder never seems to stop. One of my friends posted on FB that he had two lightning strikes in his back yard, and he lives less than a mile from me.
But that’s monsoons in the desert. They are usually fast moving, dump a lot of rain in only a small area, and cause and AWFUL lot of damage.