I’ve lived my entire life in Portland. This is the coldest Portland’s gotten in my memory. We spent most of the weekend without power in a house hovering around 40F (4C). Four people are known to have died so far, including one from a tree falling on his bedroom. Is it not as cold as your neck of the woods? Sure. But it’s very, very unusual for it to be this cold, so it hits harder when it does happen.