The first big storm of the season has passed and a flood watch issued Saturday for parts of Metro Vancouver has ended.

“Rainfall eased considerably or ended overnight,” according to B.C.’s River Forecast Centre. “No rivers in the Howe Sound or Metro Vancouver are at levels of concern.”

Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows skated through the storm basically without a scratch.

“A non-event here,” Kim Grout, Pitt Meadows’s director of operations, said Tuesday.

“The storm was humongous when the forecast came out Friday.”

But weather patterns shifted, the tidal flows cooperated in the rivers and streams in Pitt Meadows, and there was lots of capacity remaining in the drainage ditches.

Grout said this week there were low tidal flows in area streams.

“That’s the perfect week for a storm to hit us.”

There were no reports of flooding or storm damage.

Same, too, in Maple Ridge.

“I think we dodged a bullet,” said Mayor Ernie Daykin, adding there have been no reports of flooding.

Maple Ridge spokesman John Leeburn said cooling temperatures resulted in dropping of freezing levels, decreasing the chances of flooding from melting snow in the mountains.

The district had a conference call Monday with Environment Canada and the B.C. River Forecast Centre.

“Basically, we’re still in the monitoring mode.”

There was no thought of opening the emergency operations centre, which coordinates emergency response.

After Monday night’s windstorm, B.C. Hydro’s website showed seven power outages in Maple Ridge as of Tuesday morning, all with service restoration by that afternoon. Two outages were shown for Pitt Meadows, as well as Barnston Island.

The subtropical storm wasn’t a true pineapple express because it didn’t originate as far south in the Pacific as Hawaii.

Nor did it hit the Lower Mainland as hard as had been forecast or as other similar storms have in the past.

Rainfall from Saturday to Tuesday ranged from a low of 46.4 millimetres in White Rock to between 80 and 90 mm on the North Shore.

Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist said it was a “very vigourous” system with lots of moisture, but nothing extraordinary.

“It was a pretty normal fall-type storm.”

A storm system of this size or bigger typically hits southern B.C. at least two or three times each year between November and January.

Rainfall was heavier in Squamish, where nearly 180 mm fell, and even more intense on Vancouver Island, where several rivers topped their banks.

B.C. Hydro crews scrambled to restore power to blacked out parts of the Lower Mainland on Monday and Tuesday after the storm lashed the region with high winds.

More than 20,000 Lower Mainland customers were without power as of early Monday morning, but most were back on line by noon.

With more stormy weather expected, residents are advised to have an emergency kit and provisions to last 72 hours and a plan of what to do if power fails.