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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2001688/strong-el-nino-may-bring-record-sea-level-and-coastal-flooding-to-bay-area\">Higher seas\u003c/a>. Back-to-back storms. Mudslides. Flooded homes and highways. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The mere mention of El Niño — and the headlines you’re seeing — can be anxiety-provoking. But how real should your worry be? And what can you do to protect your home, business, or property in advance?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>First, the outlook: Federal forecasters report there’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html\">90% chance of a “very strong” El Niño\u003c/a> this fall and winter, and a nearly 70% chance that the strength of El Niño could exceed the strength of any similar event seen since 1950.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area cities and counties prone to flooding from the sky and the bay, like San Francisco and Marin, are already taking the El Niño threat seriously and preparing for the worst: deluges that could combine with high tides and temporarily elevated sea levels to potentially swamp whole neighborhoods and roadways, including Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve had situations in the past where we’ve had to evacuate blocks,” said Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management. “We’re having much more severe weather situations, and we’re seeing things that we haven’t seen in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12087662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A puddle left behind by receding king tides reflects homes along Golden Hind Passage in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County officials are paying close attention to the confluence of El Niño-driven elevated sea levels, seasonal king tides, and the potential for frequent storms that could hammer the region. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t know if it’s going to rain, but we are going to \u003cem>plan \u003c/em>for it to rain a significant amount,” said Steven Torrence, director of emergency management for Marin County. “Water has to go somewhere, and if it can’t go to the bay, we want to be able to push it to locations where it actually will not impact our residents or people’s infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Counties and cities are preparing by investing in temporary pumps, cleaning storm drains, working with partner agencies to ensure people aren’t on Bay Area roads during flooding and sending emergency alerts out swiftly when danger arises.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you want to know about significant traffic incidents, upcoming floods or significant storms, we will send out notifications once thresholds are hit,” Torrence said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Here’s what to know about how El Niño could affect your home and your safety this winter — not to panic you, but so you’re prepared for what might happen in a few months.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First off, what is El Niño — and what kind of weather could it bring exactly?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>El Niño forms when tropical \u003ca href=\"https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/k-12-education/atmosphere/what-are-trade-winds\">trade winds\u003c/a> weaken or reverse, allowing warm ocean water near Asia to slosh toward the Pacific Coast. That warming can reshape the jet stream and bring stormier weather across California while disrupting the ocean’s nutrient-rich \u003ca href=\"https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/upwelling.html\">upwelling\u003c/a>, heating coastal waters, raising sea levels and stressing marine life.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Exactly what the weather will look like this fall and winter is — quite literally — still up in the air. But similar events in past El Niño years have brought torrential downpours, coastal flooding, mudslides, power outages and giant waves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Climate Prediction Center suggests that much of California will experience \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html\">above-normal temperatures this fall \u003cem>and \u003c/em>precipitation\u003c/a> this winter. Earlier in the fall, forecasters expect warm and wet weather in Southern California, the Central Coast, and in the South and East Bays. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068729\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cars drive on Highway 101 flooded by the “King Tides” on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, California. (Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And come December, there’s potential for above-normal precipitation throughout Northern California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, said the Bay Area sits in this interesting transition zone with “drier conditions to the north and wetter conditions to the south.” As a result, the Bay Area could “go either way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kennedy said, “It is getting more likely that we will see a rainy winter, but we will need to keep an eye on it. Exactly how much it’s going to be above normal, we don’t really know.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But the fact that the CPC has started indicating leaning above normal for precipitation is a good sign that we are trending towards a wetter winter,” she said\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Could where I live be at risk of flooding from El Niño?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The effects of El Niño — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/severe-storms\">severe rainstorms\u003c/a> that flood homes and roadways, strong winds toppling trees, temporarily higher seas and giant waves eroding bluffs — have the potential to directly affect Bay Area homes from Pacifica to San Francisco to San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kennedy said most of the flooding would likely come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> that can fuel storms, but also from rising seas, which will be even higher during extra-high \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955598/king-tides-are-here-why-they-happen-and-what-they-teach-us\">king tides\u003c/a> right around Thanksgiving and Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you live in an area close to a river or just a more flood-prone area, make sure you are staying up to date on the forecast,” Kennedy said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said it’s important to take stock of where you live and the flood potential of your home. Are you on a hill? Near a river or the bay? Near a highway that floods? Are there big trees near your home that could fall over in or after a storm? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She suggests looking up flood maps of your home and neighborhood as a starting place to understand your home and family’s flood risk, like this \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/9b14420bdefc427981b1c244f0113328#\">map of San Francisco’s storm and flood hazards\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All this is making me worried about my home during El Niño. Should I be doing any preparation?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prevention is the number one thing emergency preparedness experts say homeowners should act on in the months before the rainy season. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This includes everything from clearing out gutters, patching up roofs and trimming trees to ensure low-lying areas, such as creeks or roads, are free of debris — so they don’t get backed up during a storm or high tide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Make sure those are cleared out, because the moment there’s a tree that’s in the wrong location, water starts flowing everywhere,” Torrence said. “We really wanna make sure that everyone is looking at preventative maintenance as something that they can do today, long before it starts raining\u003cem>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12087668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Plastic sheeting and sandbags are placed outside a home along Golden Hind Passage, as residents prepare for potential king tide flooding, in Corte Madera, on June 15, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence said homeowners in areas that can or routinely flood should also invest in sandbags or flood barriers to protect their assets. Your county may be making these tools available: The County of Marin has \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/find-emergency-sandbags\">32 sites\u003c/a> already offering sandbags, and the San Francisco Department of Public Works offers \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/services/sandbags\">10 free sandbags\u003c/a> per household.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/severe-storms\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, also said residents should be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778663/how-to-prepare-for-potential-pge-power-shutoffs\">ready for power outages \u003c/a>by purchasing backup batteries, flashlights, and nonperishable food. It’s also important to develop a plan — “on a good day,” she stressed — with your family and neighbors in case disaster strikes. As part of this, you should make sure all your important documentation — passports, birth certificates, etc. — is in a safe place, ideally even in a container you can easily grab when evacuating.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anyone who gets evacuated will tell you they have no idea why they grabbed the things they did,” Carroll said. “I have a list on my refrigerator to remind me of what to take if I had to get out quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to your neighborhood, residents should also make sure storm drains are clear of debris to reduce the risk of a water backup that could flood your street. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has an \u003ca href=\"https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/\">Adopt-A-Drain\u003c/a> program where people can name their drain and are responsible for helping the city clear leaves, trash, and other debris from it. Around KQED’s offices, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/#scl\">named drains\u003c/a> include ‘Drain Me Baby One More Time,’ Singin’ in the Drain and ‘No Pain No Drain’.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since storms can occur during holidays, Torrence said it is important to build relationships with neighbors who can check on your home or alert you if damage occurs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I’m a renter. Do I have any responsibility for El Niño preparations — or liability if the worst happens? \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said yes, renters should follow a similar plan to prepare for the potential consequences of downpours, power outages, flooding, and falling trees (see above). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But, she said, landlords are usually responsible for the upkeep of their property. And renters should ask questions like: Should we be worried about this area that ponds water? What if the power goes out? Or it flooded last year in my apartment or the basement; has that been mitigated?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence, with the County of Marin, said renters should review their lease agreement to understand their burden here versus their landlord’s, because not all leases are the same. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068651\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People paddle through a street flooded by the “King Tides,” occurring when the sun, moon and Earth align, causing a stronger gravitational pull on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, California. (Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If there are things that are on the property owner, please let them know, things like looking at trees and landscaping,” Torrence said. “We definitely encourage people to have those conversations with property owners \u003cem>early\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bringing up issues with landlords before the storm season starts is important, Torrence said, because property owners often travel for the winter or are on holiday during the period with the greatest impacts. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Make sure you bring issues up to your property owners’ attention by saying what’s happened when it’s windy and rainy,” Torrence said. “That way they can advance those mitigation measures.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence also said it’s important to check what is covered in your renters insurance. If you live in a flood-prone area, purchasing a plan could prove beneficial if the worst happens. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Double-check what [your] renters insurance policy is and have a conversation with your property owner to figure out what they cover?” Torrence said. “Because when we have these incidents, that is too late to be looking at your insurance policy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How could El Niño affect my travel plans this winter?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Two other areas to pay attention to when the skies darken and the sea rises: travel on highways and flights from local airports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you are traveling either on the road or flying during a storm, the roadways are going to be wet, and you’re likely going to encounter difficulties in visibility, particularly if you experience moderate to heavy rainfall,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GettyImages-2252559644-scaled-e1766441297618.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068282\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Heavy rains cause flooding in the streets of San Francisco, California, on Dec. 22, 2025, as a storm system pummels Northern California. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She also said to expect flooded roadways at times and gusty winds. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you feel unsafe while driving, make sure to pull off the road, or if you feel safe enough to continue, make sure you are driving slowly and leaving extra time to reach your destination,” Kennedy said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more#driving\">Read our guide to driving during very wet weather.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And if you’re on a flight during a storm, be prepared for travel delays due to turbulence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can I make sure I’m aware of El Niño-related emergencies and extreme weather in my area? \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The first stop experts suggest Bay Area residents should check for information during a flood event or storm is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>. Check out the service’s website to find out where and when the storm will hit your area. Forecasters regularly update the site with warnings and provide a detailed daily \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=mtr&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD\">forecast discussion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Secondly, Bay Area residents can sign up for emergency alerts from their city or county. Marin County runs a \u003ca href=\"http://emergency.marincounty.gov\">public emergency portal\u003c/a> 24/7, as does \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085612609/login\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. Often, city, county, or fire department Facebook or X (formerly Twitter) pages post evacuation orders, flood updates, or virtual town halls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017037\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign stating “slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge” at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, California, on May 1, 2018. (Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Don’t necessarily expect your phone’s maps app to have the latest information during extreme weather. “We encourage people to look at that website, especially during major flooding incidents because oftentimes we have the information before it shows up on Google Maps or Apple Maps,” Torrence said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County residents can also sign up for emergency alerts through \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/sign-alertmarin\">Alert Marin\u003c/a>. 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(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bay Area transit alerts\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Bay Area Highways: \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/realtime/emergencies\">511Alert\u003c/a> (text 511Alert to 888-777)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/schedules/advisories?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">BART Service Alerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/alerts?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Caltrain Alerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vta.gov/go/service-alerts?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">VTA Service Alerts / VTAlerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/muni-alerts\">SFMTA/Muni Alerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.actransit.org/service-alerts\">AC Transit Alerts\u003c/a>: Bus delays, detours, cancellations and service disruptions in the East Bay\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://b\">SamTrans Alerts\u003c/a>: Bus disruptions and service changes in San Mateo County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/alert_signup/\">Golden Gate Transit/Ferry Alerts\u003c/a>: Bus and ferry cancellations, delays, and service changes affecting Marin, Sonoma and San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscobayferry.com/real-time-text-and-email-alerts-now-available-for-san-francisco-bay-ferry-riders/\">San Francisco Bay Ferry Alerts\u003c/a>: Ferry cancellations, delays and service changes\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sonomamarintrain.org/transitapp\">SMART Alerts\u003c/a>: Train disruptions and service changes in Marin and Sonoma counties\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://countyconnection.com/alerts/\">County Connection Alerts\u003c/a>: Contra Costa bus service\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://trideltatransit.com/e-alerts/\">Tri Delta Transit Alerts\u003c/a>: Eastern Contra Costa County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.westcat.org/textalerts\">WestCAT Alerts\u003c/a>: Western Contra Costa County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wheelsbus.com/alerts/\">Wheels Alerts\u003c/a>: Tri-Valley/Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.soltrans.org/alerts\">SolTrans Alerts\u003c/a>: Solano County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://fasttransit.org/\">FAST Alerts\u003c/a>: Fairfield/Suisun Transit\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vinetransit.com/\">Napa VINE Alerts\u003c/a>: Napa County transit\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Kennedy said most of the flooding would likely come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> that can fuel storms, but also from rising seas, which will be even higher during extra-high \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955598/king-tides-are-here-why-they-happen-and-what-they-teach-us\">king tides\u003c/a> right around Thanksgiving and Christmas.\u003c/p>\n",
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And what can you do to protect your home, business, or property in advance?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>First, the outlook: Federal forecasters report there’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html\">90% chance of a “very strong” El Niño\u003c/a> this fall and winter, and a nearly 70% chance that the strength of El Niño could exceed the strength of any similar event seen since 1950.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bay Area cities and counties prone to flooding from the sky and the bay, like San Francisco and Marin, are already taking the El Niño threat seriously and preparing for the worst: deluges that could combine with high tides and temporarily elevated sea levels to potentially swamp whole neighborhoods and roadways, including Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We’ve had situations in the past where we’ve had to evacuate blocks,” said Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management. “We’re having much more severe weather situations, and we’re seeing things that we haven’t seen in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12087662\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A puddle left behind by receding king tides reflects homes along Golden Hind Passage in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. 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That warming can reshape the jet stream and bring stormier weather across California while disrupting the ocean’s nutrient-rich \u003ca href=\"https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/upwelling.html\">upwelling\u003c/a>, heating coastal waters, raising sea levels and stressing marine life.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Exactly what the weather will look like this fall and winter is — quite literally — still up in the air. But similar events in past El Niño years have brought torrential downpours, coastal flooding, mudslides, power outages and giant waves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Climate Prediction Center suggests that much of California will experience \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html\">above-normal temperatures this fall \u003cem>and \u003c/em>precipitation\u003c/a> this winter. 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Exactly how much it’s going to be above normal, we don’t really know.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“But the fact that the CPC has started indicating leaning above normal for precipitation is a good sign that we are trending towards a wetter winter,” she said\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Could where I live be at risk of flooding from El Niño?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The effects of El Niño — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/severe-storms\">severe rainstorms\u003c/a> that flood homes and roadways, strong winds toppling trees, temporarily higher seas and giant waves eroding bluffs — have the potential to directly affect Bay Area homes from Pacifica to San Francisco to San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kennedy said most of the flooding would likely come from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1935067/rivers-in-the-sky-what-you-need-to-know-about-atmospheric-river-storms\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> that can fuel storms, but also from rising seas, which will be even higher during extra-high \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955598/king-tides-are-here-why-they-happen-and-what-they-teach-us\">king tides\u003c/a> right around Thanksgiving and Christmas.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you live in an area close to a river or just a more flood-prone area, make sure you are staying up to date on the forecast,” Kennedy said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said it’s important to take stock of where you live and the flood potential of your home. Are you on a hill? Near a river or the bay? Near a highway that floods? Are there big trees near your home that could fall over in or after a storm? \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She suggests looking up flood maps of your home and neighborhood as a starting place to understand your home and family’s flood risk, like this \u003ca href=\"https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/9b14420bdefc427981b1c244f0113328#\">map of San Francisco’s storm and flood hazards\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All this is making me worried about my home during El Niño. Should I be doing any preparation?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Prevention is the number one thing emergency preparedness experts say homeowners should act on in the months before the rainy season. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This includes everything from clearing out gutters, patching up roofs and trimming trees to ensure low-lying areas, such as creeks or roads, are free of debris — so they don’t get backed up during a storm or high tide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Make sure those are cleared out, because the moment there’s a tree that’s in the wrong location, water starts flowing everywhere,” Torrence said. “We really wanna make sure that everyone is looking at preventative maintenance as something that they can do today, long before it starts raining\u003cem>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12087668\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Plastic sheeting and sandbags are placed outside a home along Golden Hind Passage, as residents prepare for potential king tide flooding, in Corte Madera, on June 15, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence said homeowners in areas that can or routinely flood should also invest in sandbags or flood barriers to protect their assets. Your county may be making these tools available: The County of Marin has \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/find-emergency-sandbags\">32 sites\u003c/a> already offering sandbags, and the San Francisco Department of Public Works offers \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/services/sandbags\">10 free sandbags\u003c/a> per household.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/severe-storms\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, also said residents should be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778663/how-to-prepare-for-potential-pge-power-shutoffs\">ready for power outages \u003c/a>by purchasing backup batteries, flashlights, and nonperishable food. It’s also important to develop a plan — “on a good day,” she stressed — with your family and neighbors in case disaster strikes. As part of this, you should make sure all your important documentation — passports, birth certificates, etc. — is in a safe place, ideally even in a container you can easily grab when evacuating.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Anyone who gets evacuated will tell you they have no idea why they grabbed the things they did,” Carroll said. “I have a list on my refrigerator to remind me of what to take if I had to get out quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When it comes to your neighborhood, residents should also make sure storm drains are clear of debris to reduce the risk of a water backup that could flood your street. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has an \u003ca href=\"https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/\">Adopt-A-Drain\u003c/a> program where people can name their drain and are responsible for helping the city clear leaves, trash, and other debris from it. Around KQED’s offices, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://adoptadrain.sfwater.org/#scl\">named drains\u003c/a> include ‘Drain Me Baby One More Time,’ Singin’ in the Drain and ‘No Pain No Drain’.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Since storms can occur during holidays, Torrence said it is important to build relationships with neighbors who can check on your home or alert you if damage occurs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I’m a renter. Do I have any responsibility for El Niño preparations — or liability if the worst happens? \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Carroll said yes, renters should follow a similar plan to prepare for the potential consequences of downpours, power outages, flooding, and falling trees (see above). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But, she said, landlords are usually responsible for the upkeep of their property. And renters should ask questions like: Should we be worried about this area that ponds water? What if the power goes out? Or it flooded last year in my apartment or the basement; has that been mitigated?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence, with the County of Marin, said renters should review their lease agreement to understand their burden here versus their landlord’s, because not all leases are the same. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068651\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">People paddle through a street flooded by the “King Tides,” occurring when the sun, moon and Earth align, causing a stronger gravitational pull on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, California. (Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If there are things that are on the property owner, please let them know, things like looking at trees and landscaping,” Torrence said. “We definitely encourage people to have those conversations with property owners \u003cem>early\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Bringing up issues with landlords before the storm season starts is important, Torrence said, because property owners often travel for the winter or are on holiday during the period with the greatest impacts. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Make sure you bring issues up to your property owners’ attention by saying what’s happened when it’s windy and rainy,” Torrence said. “That way they can advance those mitigation measures.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Torrence also said it’s important to check what is covered in your renters insurance. If you live in a flood-prone area, purchasing a plan could prove beneficial if the worst happens. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Double-check what [your] renters insurance policy is and have a conversation with your property owner to figure out what they cover?” Torrence said. “Because when we have these incidents, that is too late to be looking at your insurance policy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How could El Niño affect my travel plans this winter?\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Two other areas to pay attention to when the skies darken and the sea rises: travel on highways and flights from local airports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you are traveling either on the road or flying during a storm, the roadways are going to be wet, and you’re likely going to encounter difficulties in visibility, particularly if you experience moderate to heavy rainfall,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GettyImages-2252559644-scaled-e1766441297618.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068282\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Heavy rains cause flooding in the streets of San Francisco, California, on Dec. 22, 2025, as a storm system pummels Northern California. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She also said to expect flooded roadways at times and gusty winds. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“If you feel unsafe while driving, make sure to pull off the road, or if you feel safe enough to continue, make sure you are driving slowly and leaving extra time to reach your destination,” Kennedy said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more#driving\">Read our guide to driving during very wet weather.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>And if you’re on a flight during a storm, be prepared for travel delays due to turbulence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can I make sure I’m aware of El Niño-related emergencies and extreme weather in my area? \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The first stop experts suggest Bay Area residents should check for information during a flood event or storm is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>. Check out the service’s website to find out where and when the storm will hit your area. Forecasters regularly update the site with warnings and provide a detailed daily \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=mtr&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD\">forecast discussion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Secondly, Bay Area residents can sign up for emergency alerts from their city or county. Marin County runs a \u003ca href=\"http://emergency.marincounty.gov\">public emergency portal\u003c/a> 24/7, as does \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085612609/login\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. Often, city, county, or fire department Facebook or X (formerly Twitter) pages post evacuation orders, flood updates, or virtual town halls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12017037\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sign stating “slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge” at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, California, on May 1, 2018. (Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Don’t necessarily expect your phone’s maps app to have the latest information during extreme weather. “We encourage people to look at that website, especially during major flooding incidents because oftentimes we have the information before it shows up on Google Maps or Apple Maps,” Torrence said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County residents can also sign up for emergency alerts through \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/sign-alertmarin\">Alert Marin\u003c/a>. The county will send out alerts once two inches of rain fall in an hour or three inches in 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where to sign up for Bay Area emergency alerts to be ready for El Niño \u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bay Area county alerts\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Alameda County: \u003ca href=\"https://member.everbridge.net/453003085612570/notif\">ACAlerts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Contra Costa County: \u003ca href=\"https://cwsalerts.com/\">Community Warning System\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Marin County: \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.gov/sign-alertmarin\">Alert Marin\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Napa County: \u003ca href=\"https://www.readynapacounty.gov/214/ALERT-Napa-County\">Alert Napa County\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>San Francisco: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information--be-know-official-emergency-alerts\">Alert SF\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/readysf\">Ready SF \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>San Mateo County: \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/dem/smc-alert\">SMC Alert\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Santa Clara County: \u003ca href=\"https://oem.santaclaracounty.gov/sign-up-for-alerts\">Alert SCC\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Solano County: \u003ca href=\"https://www.solanocounty.gov/government/office-emergency-services/alert-solano\">Alert Solano\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Sonoma County: \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/emergency-management/resources/soco-alert\">SoCo Alert\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11993195\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240313-BART-CRISIS-INTERVENTION-UNIT-MD-16_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A train approaches the San Leandro BART station on March 13, 2024. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bay Area transit alerts\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Bay Area Highways: \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/realtime/emergencies\">511Alert\u003c/a> (text 511Alert to 888-777)\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/schedules/advisories?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">BART Service Alerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/alerts?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Caltrain Alerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vta.gov/go/service-alerts?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">VTA Service Alerts / VTAlerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/muni/muni-alerts\">SFMTA/Muni Alerts\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.actransit.org/service-alerts\">AC Transit Alerts\u003c/a>: Bus delays, detours, cancellations and service disruptions in the East Bay\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://b\">SamTrans Alerts\u003c/a>: Bus disruptions and service changes in San Mateo County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/alert_signup/\">Golden Gate Transit/Ferry Alerts\u003c/a>: Bus and ferry cancellations, delays, and service changes affecting Marin, Sonoma and San Francisco\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscobayferry.com/real-time-text-and-email-alerts-now-available-for-san-francisco-bay-ferry-riders/\">San Francisco Bay Ferry Alerts\u003c/a>: Ferry cancellations, delays and service changes\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sonomamarintrain.org/transitapp\">SMART Alerts\u003c/a>: Train disruptions and service changes in Marin and Sonoma counties\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://countyconnection.com/alerts/\">County Connection Alerts\u003c/a>: Contra Costa bus service\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://trideltatransit.com/e-alerts/\">Tri Delta Transit Alerts\u003c/a>: Eastern Contra Costa County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.westcat.org/textalerts\">WestCAT Alerts\u003c/a>: Western Contra Costa County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.wheelsbus.com/alerts/\">Wheels Alerts\u003c/a>: Tri-Valley/Alameda County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.soltrans.org/alerts\">SolTrans Alerts\u003c/a>: Solano County\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://fasttransit.org/\">FAST Alerts\u003c/a>: Fairfield/Suisun Transit\u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://vinetransit.com/\">Napa VINE Alerts\u003c/a>: Napa County transit\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>More than a dozen members of Janak Raj Dhungana’s family are still missing following the flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet. Another two dozen of the \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/tag/richmond\">Richmond \u003c/a>resident’s friends – some from his childhood in Nepal – are also unaccounted for. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s really very hard to control my emotions,” he said at a candlelight vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond. “We are praying for them. We can’t do nothing.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At least 676 people died in the flooding that swept through the Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday, and almost 3,000 people are still missing, according to Saturday morning figures from both governments. Nepali authorities said that 65 U.S. citizens are among the missing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Attendees sit and stand around candles arranged on the ground during a vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond on Aug. 28, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Raj Dhungana was with about 100 people who said a prayer thousands of miles away for their families and friends who number among the missing and dead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Members of the Nepali Association of Northern California bowed their heads on Friday night at its community center, surrounding candles they had placed on the ground in patterns. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen members of Janak Raj Dhungana’s family are still missing following the flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet. Another two dozen of the \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/tag/richmond\">Richmond \u003c/a>resident’s friends – some from his childhood in Nepal – are also unaccounted for. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s really very hard to control my emotions,” he said at a candlelight vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond. “We are praying for them. We can’t do nothing.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>At least 676 people died in the flooding that swept through the Nepal-Tibet border region on Wednesday, and almost 3,000 people are still missing, according to Saturday morning figures from both governments. Nepali authorities said that 65 U.S. citizens are among the missing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed.jpg 1998w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_020_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1998px) 100vw, 1998px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Attendees sit and stand around candles arranged on the ground during a vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond on Aug. 28, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Raj Dhungana was with about 100 people who said a prayer thousands of miles away for their families and friends who number among the missing and dead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Members of the Nepali Association of Northern California bowed their heads on Friday night at its community center, surrounding candles they had placed on the ground in patterns. One of the arrangements spelled out the word: “PRAY.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Sheela Dawadi, a Pittsburg resident, said she doesn’t have any blood relatives affected by the floods, but that “family” includes everyone right now. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_004_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_004_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_004_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_004_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheela Dawadi kneels as she places rows of candles before a vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond on Aug. 28, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“[The whole of] Nepal is family right now,” Dawadi said. “I’m far away. I feel so hopeless.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to upwards of 35,000 Nepali people in the diaspora, according to Preetesh Karki, president of the Nepali Association of Northern California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The U.S. Geological Survey said the flooding was “likely triggered” by rapid slope failure that involved a glacier. Though the agency hasn’t definitely said the cause is a melting glacier and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/28/world/nepal-tibet-flash-floods\">an investigation into the incident\u003c/a> is still underway, climate experts say that it’s likely. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_009_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_009_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_009_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_009_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An attendee bows her head as people gather around candles during a vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond on Aug. 28, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12097501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_007_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097501\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_007_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_007_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_007_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yashoda Bhattarai, center, and her daughter Ravya listen to speakers during a candlelight vigil at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond on Aug. 28, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Climate change has increased the speed at which glaciers defrost, meaning events like those in Nepal are becoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5945799/nepal-floods-climate-change-himalayas\">more frequent\u003c/a>. Karki and Tika Lamsal, president of the Buddha Nepal Peace Foundation, said the disaster didn’t have to happen. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of surreal, apocalyptic for all of us,” Lamsal said at the vigil. “It is not only Nepal that is suffering right now, it’s all the community in the world because global warming is real.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Karki agreed, blasting other countries that disproportionately contribute to climate change. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People from a country like mine who have nothing to do with all this impact are the people who are losing life,” Karki said before the vigil. “Nepal don’t just need your prayer. We need your apology.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_001_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12097510\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_001_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_001_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/082826_NepalVigil_GH_001_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Attendees light candles during a vigil for victims of flooding in Nepal at the Nepali Community Center in Richmond on Aug. 28, 2026. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Nepal contributed less than 1% of the world’s carbon emissions in 2023, according to the International Energy Agency. In comparison, the U.S. made up 15.5% and China, 32.1%, that same year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The recent wars in Iran and Russia also contribute to the increase in emissions, Karki said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“People living in the world, especially in developed countries, are enjoying their everyday life, that luxury is being paid by someone remote who has nothing to do [with it],” Karki said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Nepali Association of Northern California said it is \u003ca href=\"https://nancusa.org/donations/support-nepal-flood-victims/\">doubling donations\u003c/a> going toward flood relief.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/psibulo\">\u003cem>Paula Sibulo\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kmonahan\">\u003cem>Katherine Monahan\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California Transportation Commission will vote Friday on a $95 million funding bid that would launch the long-delayed overhaul of Highway 37, the flood-prone route linking Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/northern-california\">counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, who has directed federal money to the corridor, said the road’s problems have been deferred for decades. Thompson noted that officials had installed traffic barriers known as K-rails years ago to divide the two directions of traffic because a real fix was too expensive at the time. Now, the road is not only inadequate and unsafe but is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1940162/north-bays-highway-37-is-going-to-be-a-serious-climate-mess\">going underwater\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Highway 37 runs close to sea level across the San Pablo Baylands and already faces regular storm closures and permanent flooding risks as the bay rises. Caltrans says the work would be built to hold up against sea level rise projected through 2050.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096033\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cars drive down Highway 37 in Sonoma County on Aug. 19, 2026. More than twice the share on other Bay Area roads, 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, according to figures from the California Alliance for Jobs. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters and other supporters of the reconstruction vision gathered Wednesday at a nearby ranch, urging commissioners to approve the funding as traffic tops 40,000 vehicles daily and commute delays stretch past 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The responsible thing to do is build for the future instead of having this conversation again and again when the need is so urgent,” said Moulton-Peters, a member of the regional policy committee for the corridor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Reding, a union official representing Caltrans workers who maintain the road, said improvements have been discussed for decades. “We’ve been talking about this Fix 37 [project] for well over 30 years,” he said. “It’s time that we make a change.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The money sits in two separate budgetary items. One \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/108-2-5d5-a11y.pdf\">allocates\u003c/a> $32.35 million to rebuild the intersection at Sears Point where Highway 37 meets Highway 121; extend the eastbound merge lane by about a mile; and replace pavement, barriers and lighting. The \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/130-2-5c10-a11y.pdf\">other\u003c/a> allocates $62.79 million toward the first phase of the larger Sears Point to Mare Island project, which includes replacing the Tolay Creek Bridge with a longer, wider and higher span. Caltrans plans to advertise the combined contract in September and start work in May.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, said the work is also an equity issue. He told KQED that 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, while on other Bay Area roads that share is less than 40%. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Transportation Commission will vote Friday on a $95 million funding bid that would launch the long-delayed overhaul of Highway 37, the flood-prone route linking Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/northern-california\">counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, who has directed federal money to the corridor, said the road’s problems have been deferred for decades. Thompson noted that officials had installed traffic barriers known as K-rails years ago to divide the two directions of traffic because a real fix was too expensive at the time. Now, the road is not only inadequate and unsafe but is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1940162/north-bays-highway-37-is-going-to-be-a-serious-climate-mess\">going underwater\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Highway 37 runs close to sea level across the San Pablo Baylands and already faces regular storm closures and permanent flooding risks as the bay rises. Caltrans says the work would be built to hold up against sea level rise projected through 2050.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096033\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/081926-Highway37-02-MC-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cars drive down Highway 37 in Sonoma County on Aug. 19, 2026. More than twice the share on other Bay Area roads, 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, according to figures from the California Alliance for Jobs. (Miles Cull/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Marin County Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters and other supporters of the reconstruction vision gathered Wednesday at a nearby ranch, urging commissioners to approve the funding as traffic tops 40,000 vehicles daily and commute delays stretch past 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The responsible thing to do is build for the future instead of having this conversation again and again when the need is so urgent,” said Moulton-Peters, a member of the regional policy committee for the corridor. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Reding, a union official representing Caltrans workers who maintain the road, said improvements have been discussed for decades. “We’ve been talking about this Fix 37 [project] for well over 30 years,” he said. “It’s time that we make a change.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The money sits in two separate budgetary items. One \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/108-2-5d5-a11y.pdf\">allocates\u003c/a> $32.35 million to rebuild the intersection at Sears Point where Highway 37 meets Highway 121; extend the eastbound merge lane by about a mile; and replace pavement, barriers and lighting. The \u003ca href=\"https://catc.ca.gov/-/media/ctc-media/documents/ctc-meetings/2026/2026-08/130-2-5c10-a11y.pdf\">other\u003c/a> allocates $62.79 million toward the first phase of the larger Sears Point to Mare Island project, which includes replacing the Tolay Creek Bridge with a longer, wider and higher span. Caltrans plans to advertise the combined contract in September and start work in May.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, executive director of the California Alliance for Jobs, said the work is also an equity issue. He told KQED that 85% of people who use Highway 37 to get to work earn below the region’s median wage, while on other Bay Area roads that share is less than 40%. Backers estimate the construction would support as many as 5,000 jobs in Solano County, a region that has the Bay Area’s highest unemployment rate among the nine San Francisco Bay Area Counties.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1255\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12096071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/08/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse-1536x964.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The endangered salt-marsh harvest mouse is typically about 3 inches long, weighs 1/2 ounce or less, and its tail can be longer than its body. Protections for the rodent were eased in a California bill to benefit a highway project. (William Thein/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The state has been inching toward this point for years. \u003ca href=\"https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-projects/d4-37-corridor-projects/37-projects/1q761-sears-point-mare-island-improvement-project\">Caltrans\u003c/a> programmed the Sears Point intersection work in 2022, but the funding lapsed in 2025 and had to be reprogrammed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An updated July estimate pushed costs 54% higher after engineers discovered bay mud required them to swap standard sheet walls for complex, pile-supported retaining walls and extensive groundwater treatment. The department also asked for three more years to finish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom helped to grease the wheels last October when he signed a bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB697\">eased protections\u003c/a> for three species of bird and the salt-marsh harvest mouse, all inhabitants of the marsh beside the highway. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new law lets state wildlife regulators permit a limited number of deaths of the mouse, the California Ridgway’s rail, the California black rail and the white-tailed kite, provided Caltrans restores habitat in return. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the roadwork plans said the preexisting restrictions would have limited construction to roughly three months out of a year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Some environmental and transit groups are in the meantime fighting the plan to widen Highway 37. In a 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://transformca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sign-on-Letter_-Oppose-Backdoor-Streamlining-for-HW-37.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> to state Senate leadership, two dozen organizations warned that changes to wildlife protections would invite other highway expansions to seek similar exemptions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Advocates at the nonprofit TransForm, which was the lead signatory of the 2024 letter, are not opposing Friday’s item.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>TransForm policy director Zack Deutsch-Gross told KQED it is staying neutral on the Tolay Creek bridge replacement while continuing to fight the added lanes planned for later phases. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Spending money on expanding a highway that already floods regularly is a waste of taxpayer money and time,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12069962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/20250114_Mare-Island_DMB_00333_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A kayaker floats down the Napa River past the Navy Yard of Mare Island in the city of Vallejo on Jan. 14, 2025. (David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Deutsch-Gross said more lanes won’t relieve congestion long-term, and any elevation gained in this phase is minimal and doesn’t address sea level rise. He also argued that construction of the causeway would mean tearing out the interim work entirely. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should be advancing truly equitable solutions like affordable housing near jobs and reliable transit service so people don’t have to pay over $12,000 a year in car upkeep and maintenance,” Deutsch-Gross said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Friday’s vote covers phase one. Later phases would widen the highway to four lanes between Sears Point and Mare Island, adding a carpool lane in each direction and bringing bus service to a corridor that has none. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco wants to reinvent its iconic bayside shoreline, lined with tourist spots like Fisherman’s Wharf, towering skyscrapers and industrial areas, thanks to the projected 3.5feet of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912604/as-sea-levels-rise-what-will-it-take-to-protect-the-bay-area-from-flooding\">sea level rise\u003c/a> by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Port of San Francisco and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have finished a massive study that would cost more than $17 billion over three decades to implement and render the city’s existing shoreline virtually unrecognizable. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Imagine the Ferry Building raised by 7 feet, a taller and wider seawall to hold back the mud that downtown is built upon, and featuring \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997729/oysters-snails-and-a-wall-that-protects-against-climate-change-one-tile-at-a-time\">nature-based solutions\u003c/a>, like the addition of living sea walls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12018232\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Water flows onto the sidewalk during a high king tide at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If the project doesn’t become a reality, the port expects $23 billion in damages over the next century.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We are talking about the part of San Francisco that is internationally, arguably, the most visible part of San Francisco,” said Mark Lubell, a professor of environmental science and policy at UC Davis. “If you created a map of all the tourist destinations that are in San Francisco, and overlaid it with potential flooding, there’s a lot of major tourist destinations that could be potentially flooded regularly in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published on July 31 in the Federal Register, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.swt.usace.army.mil/Library/Docs-and-Comms/\">San Francisco Waterfront Coastal Flood Study\u003c/a> addresses flood risks along the port’s entire 7.5-mile jurisdiction, touching the Marina District and running southeast all the way to Hunters Point. The study analyzes coastal flood risks from 2040 to well into the next century. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Efforts to fund the project, meanwhile, could be hampered by the Trump administration’s ongoing rollbacks of environmental protections.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely going to slow things down,” Lubell said. “It’s forcing them to take more of a piecemeal approach to some of the projects. How much it’s going to slow it down is a question, but it’s not going to be, like, slowing down by months. It’s going to be slowing down for years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The biggest undertaking calls for the reconstruction of the city’s 1800s-era sea wall that sits on “weak soil and young bay mud,” said Brad Benson, waterfront resilience program director for the port.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Rather than building a wall on the shoreline, we plan on gradually gaining elevation over time so that people can continue to have access to the waterfront,” Benson said. “That means raising nearby infrastructure – historic buildings that intersect the shoreline, like the Ferry Building. 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The weather service also warned of hazardous beach conditions, including sneaker waves and strong rip currents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend’s record-breaking tides caused some coastal flooding in Larkspur along Lucky Drive and Redwood Highway, as well as throughout Corte Madera’s Golden Hind Passage neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water also flooded the sidewalk and spilled into the street in San Francisco near Pier 14 on the Embarcadero, disrupting pedestrian and cyclist traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Rachel Kennedy said the weather service is predicting some isolated road and parking lot closures, especially along the Marin County shoreline and coastal Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie and her son, Rowan, stand outside their home beside road closure signs staged for potential flooding along Golden Hind Passage in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. Residents in low-lying neighborhoods were advised to prepare for king tide flooding through June 16. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you’re driving in those areas, [make] sure that you have an alternate route ready to go in the event that your normal path is encountering some coastal flooding, or you’re going to park in a parking lot that’s now got some flooding going on in it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Kelly, 48, who’s lived in the Golden Hind Passage neighborhood in Marin County for more than 20 years, said this weekend was the first time her home has flooded in the summer, without significant rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely gotten worse since we first moved in 2002,” she told KQED. “It would happen maybe once every few years, and it might come up over the sidewalk or something, but the last couple years, it’s come up higher and higher.”[aside postID=news_12069118 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP3.jpg']During January’s record-setting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068644/marin-county-looked-like-a-lagoon-after-king-tides-heavy-rain\">king tides\u003c/a>, which peaked at 2.5 feet above normal after multiple particularly wet weeks, she said water seeped into her and her husband’s garage for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents are increasingly taking protective measures into their own hands. On Monday, nearby construction crews were busy raising the foundation of one of Kelly’s neighbor’s homes, and Kelly said she and her husband recently opted to install a new fence around their garden as a way to protect it from flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tides are driven by the phases of the moon, according to Kennedy, usually peaking around the new moon, which happened Sunday. Water levels have historically risen the highest in the winter months, but meteorologists said at the time that extreme tides could become more common as the climate changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s water levels have risen nearly 2 millimeters per year on average over the past three decades, and the ocean and the bay could rise by about a foot by 2050 — and more than 6 feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors who live at slightly lower elevations, Kelly said, can sometimes be up to their knees in seawater in their garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Breidenbaugh, who was visiting his daughter’s home in Golden Hind, said that her garage had upwards of seven inches of water in it during Sunday night’s peak tide. The house effectively became an island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic sheeting and sandbags are placed outside a home along Golden Hind Passage, as residents prepare for potential king tide flooding, in Corte Madera, on June 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This lot is a bit below high sea level, unfortunately,” he told KQED. “They’ve lost some stuff because they weren’t as diligent as they should be, but they’re learning fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breidenbaugh was drying out the garage with a fan Monday and said the family was going to line it with some polyethylene plastic sheeting before the tides are expected to rise again overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family has learned to keep everything in the garage, from a baby stroller to the washer and dryer, off the floor. Seawater remained pooled along the curb of his daughter’s house late into the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll flood again tonight, so we’ll be doing this again tomorrow,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home along Golden Hind Passage is raised above its foundation in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. Some homeowners are elevating structures as part of long-term efforts to adapt to recurring tidal flooding. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Longer term, he said the family was planning to install a sump — a basin dug in a basement that drains water — in the garage, and considering building up perimeter walls around the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re helping them figure this property out and get it armored against the water,” he said. “We’ll figure it out. It might take a few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corte Madera Mayor Rosa Thomas said her office is also looking at solutions to protect the entire town. In January, sea water reached freeways, and spilled over levees, bike trails and into homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said they’re hoping to build berms, or raised mounts of earth and soil material that slope, to keep water out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Thomas, mayor of Corte Madera, poses for a portrait in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corte Madera has a system of flood gates and pumps, Thomas said, but “when the tides are as high as they were back in January, there’s nowhere for the water to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corte Madera does have a FEMA-funded berm project in the pipeline, but Thomas said it’s been stalled under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she said, they’re looking at building temporary, inflatable berms ahead of next winter, when California is expecting stormier, wetter weather thanks to what could be a strong El Niño season. The arrival of the weather pattern likely means more intense atmospheric rivers, major snow events in the Sierra Nevada, and larger waves, coastal flooding, and higher sea levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next big tidal flooding that we’re expecting is going to probably be around January [or] December of this year, so we were looking at how we can best be ready for that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend’s record-breaking tides caused some coastal flooding in Larkspur along Lucky Drive and Redwood Highway, as well as throughout Corte Madera’s Golden Hind Passage neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water also flooded the sidewalk and spilled into the street in San Francisco near Pier 14 on the Embarcadero, disrupting pedestrian and cyclist traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Rachel Kennedy said the weather service is predicting some isolated road and parking lot closures, especially along the Marin County shoreline and coastal Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087663\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_002-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie and her son, Rowan, stand outside their home beside road closure signs staged for potential flooding along Golden Hind Passage in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. Residents in low-lying neighborhoods were advised to prepare for king tide flooding through June 16. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If you’re driving in those areas, [make] sure that you have an alternate route ready to go in the event that your normal path is encountering some coastal flooding, or you’re going to park in a parking lot that’s now got some flooding going on in it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Kelly, 48, who’s lived in the Golden Hind Passage neighborhood in Marin County for more than 20 years, said this weekend was the first time her home has flooded in the summer, without significant rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely gotten worse since we first moved in 2002,” she told KQED. “It would happen maybe once every few years, and it might come up over the sidewalk or something, but the last couple years, it’s come up higher and higher.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During January’s record-setting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068644/marin-county-looked-like-a-lagoon-after-king-tides-heavy-rain\">king tides\u003c/a>, which peaked at 2.5 feet above normal after multiple particularly wet weeks, she said water seeped into her and her husband’s garage for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents are increasingly taking protective measures into their own hands. On Monday, nearby construction crews were busy raising the foundation of one of Kelly’s neighbor’s homes, and Kelly said she and her husband recently opted to install a new fence around their garden as a way to protect it from flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tides are driven by the phases of the moon, according to Kennedy, usually peaking around the new moon, which happened Sunday. Water levels have historically risen the highest in the winter months, but meteorologists said at the time that extreme tides could become more common as the climate changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s water levels have risen nearly 2 millimeters per year on average over the past three decades, and the ocean and the bay could rise by about a foot by 2050 — and more than 6 feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neighbors who live at slightly lower elevations, Kelly said, can sometimes be up to their knees in seawater in their garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Breidenbaugh, who was visiting his daughter’s home in Golden Hind, said that her garage had upwards of seven inches of water in it during Sunday night’s peak tide. The house effectively became an island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic sheeting and sandbags are placed outside a home along Golden Hind Passage, as residents prepare for potential king tide flooding, in Corte Madera, on June 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This lot is a bit below high sea level, unfortunately,” he told KQED. “They’ve lost some stuff because they weren’t as diligent as they should be, but they’re learning fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breidenbaugh was drying out the garage with a fan Monday and said the family was going to line it with some polyethylene plastic sheeting before the tides are expected to rise again overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family has learned to keep everything in the garage, from a baby stroller to the washer and dryer, off the floor. Seawater remained pooled along the curb of his daughter’s house late into the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll flood again tonight, so we’ll be doing this again tomorrow,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home along Golden Hind Passage is raised above its foundation in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. Some homeowners are elevating structures as part of long-term efforts to adapt to recurring tidal flooding. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Longer term, he said the family was planning to install a sump — a basin dug in a basement that drains water — in the garage, and considering building up perimeter walls around the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re helping them figure this property out and get it armored against the water,” he said. “We’ll figure it out. It might take a few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corte Madera Mayor Rosa Thomas said her office is also looking at solutions to protect the entire town. In January, sea water reached freeways, and spilled over levees, bike trails and into homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said they’re hoping to build berms, or raised mounts of earth and soil material that slope, to keep water out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12087666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12087666\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/061526Flooding_GH_008-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rosa Thomas, mayor of Corte Madera, poses for a portrait in Corte Madera on June 15, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corte Madera has a system of flood gates and pumps, Thomas said, but “when the tides are as high as they were back in January, there’s nowhere for the water to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corte Madera does have a FEMA-funded berm project in the pipeline, but Thomas said it’s been stalled under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she said, they’re looking at building temporary, inflatable berms ahead of next winter, when California is expecting stormier, wetter weather thanks to what could be a strong El Niño season. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last weekend’s storms, coupled with king tides, caught Marin County cities like Corte Madera, Sausalito and San Rafael off guard. Floodwaters spilled over levees, covered bike trails, and surrounded homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody was seriously injured and the level of damage is still being assessed. But it’s a wake-up call for residents, both in Marin County and across the Bay Area, about the risk of more flooding in our future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3713712008&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068644/marin-county-looked-like-a-lagoon-after-king-tides-heavy-rain\">Marin County Looked Like ‘a Lagoon’ After King Tides, Heavy Rain | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] Hi, I’m Alan Montecillo, in for Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. The Bay Area had a rough few weeks of holiday weather. It was cold, we got a lot of rain, and some places even got intense flooding, especially Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TV newscast \u003c/strong>[00:00:24] Tides we had for the Bay Area many locations the highest we’ve seen since 1998. Business owners in Marin County who dealt with feet of standing water over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TV newscast \u003c/strong>[00:00:34] King tides and heavy rain once again flooding low-lying areas across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TV newscast \u003c/strong>[00:00:39] And for the fourth straight day, Marin County is getting the worst of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:44] Cities like Corte Madera, Sausalito, and San Rafael were caught off guard by the intensity of the storms coupled with king tides. Floodwaters spilled over levees, covered bike trails, and surrounded homes and businesses. For residents and officials like Corte Madera Mayor Rosa Thomas, the flooding was a reminder of how everyone needs to be ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosa Thomas \u003c/strong>[00:01:11] It’s not just the person who has the property facing the bay, but it will tie up the entire town. And I think that that is a call for us to be united in tackling this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:28] Today, the flooding in Marin and what can be done to get us ready for the next storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:01:44] We were very dry for a long time this winter, right? I think we had a couple weeks of like very little rain and then there was like a bunch of rain around Christmas, right? And then like another set of storms this past weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:02] And so the ground was really saturated and then we had a king tide and then a low pressure system just a regular a storm all happening at the same time. So it created like the perfect conditions you know for extra flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:18] Well, and you went with local and federal leaders in Marin earlier in the week to assess the damage. Where did you go? What did you see?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] We started off in San Rafael, just north of there, in an uncorporated community. And then we went to Marin City, we went to Sausalito, we just basically started north and then made our way down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Davis \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] Everybody got their rain gear?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:46] This was a group of like many elected leaders and reporters and one of them was Supervisor Mary Sackett from Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:02:54] The tide is out, but you can see here where the docks are, show you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] On this tour, Supervisor Mary Sackett brought us to multiple places across the county, you know, where places had been flooded, or like a levee had broke, or, you know, a business was underwater, things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] And you can tell by looking at some of these homes that they are under the water level. If you walk out on that island in particular, you look and you’re like, they’re really under sea level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] One thing that’s interesting about Marin County is if you’re driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, you’re like in the mountains, right? And then you come down Highway 101 and you’re pretty close to the bay and then it shoots up to the mountains. So we’re not talking about a huge area. It’s like the sliver of land that’s rather low-lying, but it’s very populated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:03:49] There’s a lot of young families here. There’s lot of older families here, this is not the most affluent part of Marin. It’s lower than the average median income for the county and the cost of flood insurance is significant. In.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:03] And the big issue there is that a lot of that flatland area is land that wasn’t there before. Land we filled in as people, it’s called fill. You know, some of that was marshland, or it was like soggy, or it like physically the bay. And we built land there, we put sand and dirt there, and then we built on top of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:23] Oh, is that what reclaimed land is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] That’s what reclaimed land is, yeah. So in some way, it makes sense that these areas would want to flood again, right? And especially over time, they’re also sinking because buildings are heavy, the land is settling. So at the same time, the king tides are happening, there’s storms. All that together makes this like perfect storm of like flood proneness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Was there damage to roads, buildings, was anyone hurt?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:51] I haven’t heard of any reports of anyone hurt so far, but I have talked to a number of people that said their cars have been flooded, homes and businesses have also been flooded. Mary Sackett says that there’s about a couple hundred places across Marin County that have flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] And so the streets were very flooded during that King Tide event. And many of the yards, homes, etc. Thank you very much. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:20] Well, I can’t imagine what it was like for local businesses during this intense flooding. I know you met the manager of a local gym. Tell me what happened to their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:35] I met a lot of business owners in my reporting, but on my first reporting trip, I met Ryan Davis. He’s the general manager of FitnessSF in Corte Madera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Davis \u003c/strong>[00:05:44] So we’ve had events like this in 2005, about 20 years ago, and then in 98. So we’ll remember those, so we’ve tried to be as ready as possible. But we weren’t ready for the scale that ended up coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] It’s actually a place I’ve worked out before. When I’ve been reporting out there, I just go there because I’m a member there. It was interesting to go there with a three-foot line of sandbags and tarps. He said that the lagoon right behind their business was overflowing like a waterfall into their parking lot, and the water was trying to get in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Davis \u003c/strong>[00:06:23] The exits and entrances, the water got up so high around the edge of the building probably I would say at least three feet of standing water surrounding the entire building that even with sandbags and plywood and tarps it was still coming through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:37] They were pretty proactive. They were like shop vacing the water out. He said they built one row of sandbags and they built another one because water was getting in. So they were like fighting to make sure the gym, you know, was going to be there for the gym rats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:52] Well, I mean, that does sound like a lot of adrenaline, but like not the kind you’re hoping for when you go to the gym. So I want to talk about the cause of this round of flooding. So it seems like thankfully no one was hurt. The amount of damage is still being assessed, but, but that it was, you know, really scary and intense for a lot of residents. What actually caused all of this damage and all of his flooding? It was the heavy rain, sea level rise, help me understand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:21] A bit of it all, honestly. King tides are natural. It happens when the sun and moon are both at their closest to the earth, that pulls on the ocean with their strongest gravitational force. So basically, the high tide and the low tides, are going to be the biggest and lowest in that day. King Kong tides happen multiple times a year, usually in the winter. And there are other high tides at other times of the year. But what was different this time was that there was a king tide, there was storm, things were already over saturated and it was windy. So all these things together made that flooding worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:09] Ezra, how prepared was the county for this flooding? I mean, is there any kind of warning system, like, hey, there’s a high risk of flooding today or this week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:21] The thing I heard over and over in my reporting this week, whether it was on Monday or in interviews on Tuesday or yesterday when I was out in San Rafael, is everyone was saying this caught them by surprise. We knew that King Tides were happening. The Weather Service puts out reports every single day. They send out to the cities, counties, journalists. We get those every single. So we knew the King Tide’s were happening, but the Weather Service did say is that You know, the storm outperformed their own forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:49] Where does climate change factor in here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:51] When it comes to storms, it’s hard to say how much in each storm human-caused climate change is infusing into that storm. But scientists have said that all storms are getting wetter because of climate change. Scientists often think of king tides as like the foreshadowing of the future when it comes to sea level rise in California the state is preparing for about like a foot of sea level rise by 2050 and like as many as six feet by 2100 and that’s basically like no ice sheets are melting You know filling up the ocean and then the oceans also expanding as it warms You know, as a byproduct, seas rise, and that will have an effect all over the world. 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They have tasked every city, Every county in the Bay Area that’s touching the Bay and the coast to come up with a sea level rise plan by like 2034. And each city is sort of thinking about that, like how do we deal with this? But there are some big issues in the future for this. A lot of this is private land, you know, homes, businesses. Then you have this like pea soup of highways, right? You have the bridge coming from Richmond, you have Highway 101. So there’s lots to think about here, and it’s not an easy thing of like, let’s just build a seawall. It’s gonna take lots of going back and forth. There’s no real easy answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:13] Right, and I imagine there are so many agencies and municipalities and different economic political interests that might make a region-wide approach challenging. Is there money for these kinds of plans? 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For residents and officials like Corte Madera Mayor Rosa Thomas, the flooding was a reminder of how everyone needs to be ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosa Thomas \u003c/strong>[00:01:11] It’s not just the person who has the property facing the bay, but it will tie up the entire town. And I think that that is a call for us to be united in tackling this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:28] Today, the flooding in Marin and what can be done to get us ready for the next storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:01:44] We were very dry for a long time this winter, right? I think we had a couple weeks of like very little rain and then there was like a bunch of rain around Christmas, right? And then like another set of storms this past weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:58] Ezra David Romero is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:02] And so the ground was really saturated and then we had a king tide and then a low pressure system just a regular a storm all happening at the same time. So it created like the perfect conditions you know for extra flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:18] Well, and you went with local and federal leaders in Marin earlier in the week to assess the damage. Where did you go? What did you see?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] We started off in San Rafael, just north of there, in an uncorporated community. And then we went to Marin City, we went to Sausalito, we just basically started north and then made our way down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Davis \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] Everybody got their rain gear?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:02:46] This was a group of like many elected leaders and reporters and one of them was Supervisor Mary Sackett from Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:02:54] The tide is out, but you can see here where the docks are, show you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:00] On this tour, Supervisor Mary Sackett brought us to multiple places across the county, you know, where places had been flooded, or like a levee had broke, or, you know, a business was underwater, things like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] And you can tell by looking at some of these homes that they are under the water level. If you walk out on that island in particular, you look and you’re like, they’re really under sea level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] One thing that’s interesting about Marin County is if you’re driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, you’re like in the mountains, right? And then you come down Highway 101 and you’re pretty close to the bay and then it shoots up to the mountains. So we’re not talking about a huge area. It’s like the sliver of land that’s rather low-lying, but it’s very populated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:03:49] There’s a lot of young families here. There’s lot of older families here, this is not the most affluent part of Marin. It’s lower than the average median income for the county and the cost of flood insurance is significant. 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All that together makes this like perfect storm of like flood proneness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] Was there damage to roads, buildings, was anyone hurt?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:51] I haven’t heard of any reports of anyone hurt so far, but I have talked to a number of people that said their cars have been flooded, homes and businesses have also been flooded. Mary Sackett says that there’s about a couple hundred places across Marin County that have flooded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Sackett \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] And so the streets were very flooded during that King Tide event. And many of the yards, homes, etc. Thank you very much. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:20] Well, I can’t imagine what it was like for local businesses during this intense flooding. I know you met the manager of a local gym. Tell me what happened to their business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:35] I met a lot of business owners in my reporting, but on my first reporting trip, I met Ryan Davis. He’s the general manager of FitnessSF in Corte Madera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Davis \u003c/strong>[00:05:44] So we’ve had events like this in 2005, about 20 years ago, and then in 98. So we’ll remember those, so we’ve tried to be as ready as possible. But we weren’t ready for the scale that ended up coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:00] It’s actually a place I’ve worked out before. When I’ve been reporting out there, I just go there because I’m a member there. It was interesting to go there with a three-foot line of sandbags and tarps. 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So I want to talk about the cause of this round of flooding. So it seems like thankfully no one was hurt. The amount of damage is still being assessed, but, but that it was, you know, really scary and intense for a lot of residents. What actually caused all of this damage and all of his flooding? It was the heavy rain, sea level rise, help me understand it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:21] A bit of it all, honestly. King tides are natural. It happens when the sun and moon are both at their closest to the earth, that pulls on the ocean with their strongest gravitational force. So basically, the high tide and the low tides, are going to be the biggest and lowest in that day. King Kong tides happen multiple times a year, usually in the winter. And there are other high tides at other times of the year. But what was different this time was that there was a king tide, there was storm, things were already over saturated and it was windy. So all these things together made that flooding worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:09] Ezra, how prepared was the county for this flooding? I mean, is there any kind of warning system, like, hey, there’s a high risk of flooding today or this week?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:21] The thing I heard over and over in my reporting this week, whether it was on Monday or in interviews on Tuesday or yesterday when I was out in San Rafael, is everyone was saying this caught them by surprise. We knew that King Tides were happening. The Weather Service puts out reports every single day. They send out to the cities, counties, journalists. We get those every single. 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"content": "\u003cp>A 3-foot-tall line of grey sandbags and blue tarps surrounded the entrance of Fitness SF in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/marin-county\">Corte Madera \u003c/a>on Monday morning. This makeshift wall and a temporary pump stopped water from a nearby lagoon from turning the gym into a swamp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would have easily been 2 feet underwater,” said Ryan Davis, the gym’s general manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensity of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068616/marin-county-911-service-restored-after-potentially-flood-related-outage\">this weekend’s storm\u003c/a>, coupled with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018103/king-tides-foreshadow-far-wetter-future-sf-shoreline\">king tide\u003c/a>, caught Marin County cities like Corte Madera, Sausalito and San Rafael off guard. Floodwaters spilled over levees, covered bike trails, and surrounded homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials told KQED on Monday the exact damage estimates aren’t yet known, but that hundreds of structures were impacted by the flooding brought on by stronger-than-expected rainfall and king tides, the highest tides of the year. Scientists say these tides, which occur every November, December and January when the sun, moon and Earth align and create a stronger-than-normal gravitational pull, are a foreshadowing of the future in our warming climate. The high tides of today will become the daily tides of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard for everyone to imagine the worst,” Corte Madera Mayor Rosa Thomas said. “People have told me leading up to this, ‘It’s come only this far up my driveway, or that far up my driveway, so I don’t have to prepare for anything more,’ and I think people have to realize that there’s a first time for everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Weather Service Warning Coordination Meteorologist Brian Garcia said the weekend’s storms outperformed his office’s predictions, but that they weren’t out of the realm of possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12068729 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/FloodingMarinCountyAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars drive on Highway 101, flooded by the “King Tides” on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The modeling is based on what we’ve seen in the past, what the physics say, but the climate is changing,” he said, noting that the Bay Area has seen sea level rise of nearly 2 millimeters per year in recent years. While seas have risen only about 8 inches since the 1880s, the ocean and the bay could rise by about a foot by midcentury and more than 6 feet by the end of the century — thanks mainly to human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King tides in the region were already at a 28-year high, at 2.5 feet above ground level according to the weather service’s tidal gauge in San Francisco, and Friday and Saturday’s showers dumped more than 2 inches of rain across areas of Marin, and even more in coastal regions. Strong winds created an additional storm surge, forcing even more water onto land as rain turned streets into rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing stronger storms as we go forward, and the predictions are that we are going to continue to see more intensity in the storms and wilder swings,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could mean more flooding situations like last weekend — and more significant ones, since the system was not classified as an atmospheric river, which are common during Bay Area winters and can be marked by higher rainfall totals.[aside postID=news_12068616 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1348762301-1020x680.jpg']“An atmospheric river could have made this a lot worse,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the scale of the flooding alarmed North Bay Rep. Jared Huffman, who toured some of the county’s flooded areas on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In almost every direction in a place like Marin County, you’ve got vulnerability,” he said. “I hope we don’t have to see catastrophic damage to have a greater commitment to resiliency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water seeped around numerous retail and residential areas in low-lying parts of Marin County, including the Larkspur Marina neighborhood, which sits along the Corte Madera Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The streets looked like a lagoon,” Larkspur Mayor Stephanie Andre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water pooling on major thoroughfares also caused major delays along Highway 101 over the weekend, after about 2.5 feet of water quickly rose along the route, Thomas said. Exits had to be shut down for multiple hours because of standing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rain continued on Monday, the highway’s northbound off-ramp to Highway 1, which leads to Sausalito, was again closed due to flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said when rain, king tides and storm surge all combine, the impacts don’t just harm those bayfront properties, but “tie up the entire town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068732\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/MarinCountyFloodingAP3-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wade through an RV park flooded by the “King Tides” on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, near Corte Madera in Marin County, California. \u003ccite>(Ethan Swope/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is a call for us to be united in tackling this,” Thomas said. “It’s a county problem, and we have to approach it that way. And we all have to participate in the solutions together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has tasked every county and city around the lip of San Francisco Bay and the coast to come up with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">sea level rise plan by 2034\u003c/a>. The solutions should ideally deal with today’s flooding and the high water of the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas said Corte Madera has a climate action plan to address related issues, like increased flood risk, and is looking at creating physical barriers that can help reroute water. In 2023, the city held \u003ca href=\"https://cortemaderaadapts.org/shoreline\">a listening tour\u003c/a> to develop a community vision for adaptation to a future with rising sea levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Larkspur, city officials attempted to get extra pumps into residential areas to drain flood water, but Andre said that pumping isn’t effective during elevated tides. She said that the city is hoping to work with Huffman to secure funding to strengthen some of its coastal retaining walls, especially as Marin continues to deal with sea level rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One neighborhood had applied for $18 million in federal grant funding to build a new sheet pile wall meant to keep water out. County supervisor Mary Sackett said the current 40-year-old berm wouldn’t be able to stop any overtopping of floodwater, threatening homes and the entire road system around Vendola Drive in Santa Venetia, a community in eastern Marin. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amber McZeal had just wrapped up her first summer semester back at Southern University of New Orleans in August 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then the big tropical storm came, which was crazy, massive,” she said. “And then Katrina hit Aug. 29.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina\">Category 3\u003c/a> storm — with 120 mph winds and a surge over 12 feet tall in some areas — decimating New Orleans and other coastal towns along the Mississippi shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath, 1,833 people died and survivors were left stranded on rooftops as the federal government was slow to respond. Thousands of people — mostly poor and Black — were displaced in one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, some who were evacuated and relocated to other parts of the country, including the Bay Area, reflect on how Katrina changed their lives and how they remain rooted to a place that, for them, is more than geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of her neighbors, McZeal, who now lives in Oakland, initially planned to ride out Katrina, which made landfall two days before her 22nd birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad I didn’t, because my apartment got 8 feet of water at the bottom and then mold from the roof,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber McZeal sits on the porch at DeFremery Park in Oakland on Aug. 28, 2025. She evacuated to the Bay Area from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McZeal evacuated to Mississippi with friends and later returned to a ravaged New Orleans. She ultimately decided to leave Louisiana — where she said her ancestors have lived since the 1700s — after suffering a respiratory tract infection and growing weary of battling the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she accepted the government’s offer to pay for a hotel room outside of New Orleans in early 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a forced exile, if you will, or forced displacement,” McZeal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She landed in Emeryville, where a friend had a spare hotel room. She joined organizers pressing the U.S. government to follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights\">United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u003c/a>, which they interpreted to mean that New Orleanians should be able to return to their homes there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many never did — not by choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>National disaster prompts local relief\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nell Myhand, then a Bay Area volunteer with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://globalwomenstrike.net/\">Global Women’s Strike\u003c/a>, worked to support Katrina evacuees, many of whom were low-income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our question was not, what kind of charity can we provide for them, but how can we call attention to the violence that is happening to them at the hands of the government?” Myhand said. “In some countries, in natural disasters, they respond to them by moving people out of the danger as close as possible to where they were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in the case of Katrina, the U.S. government decided to disperse people from Louisiana, throughout the country, far away from their homes, from their families, sometimes in places where they had never been before and didn’t have connection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1329\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/HurricaneKatrinaGetty-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A historic marker honors volunteers outside Waveland’s Ground Zero Hurricane Museum, in a town that was hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina, on Aug. 4, 2025, in Waveland, Mississippi. Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today’s dollars. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Myhand said many people were placed in hotel rooms without kitchens or transportation, leaving volunteers scrambling to meet basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no central place where we could say, ‘Where are the evacuees who came to the Bay Area?’ There was no coordination that helped us get ready for the folks who were coming here,” Myhand said. “There was really no reason that they had to come here in the first place, except that they were being displaced from that very vital location, that geography.”[aside postID=forum_2010101911063 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/08/clint-smith-katrina.png']About 1,700 people relocated to California after Katrina. A 2008 Bureau of Labor Statistics \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art3full.pdf\">report\u003c/a> found that only up to 3% of evacuees came to California and stayed a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chet Hewitt, the head of Alameda County’s Social Services Agency at the time, said of the 1,700 people who came to the Bay Area, 1,100 were in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet their needs, the county set up a “one-stop center” in Hayward, where retired social workers helped 400 families apply for housing assistance, food stamps, school enrollment, replacement medications and new IDs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kind of public, private, faith and nonprofit partnerships were essential,” Hewitt said. “The government has a critical role to play — particularly in long-term assistance — but the more rapid response was often of a more communal nature, with the faith community and nonprofits stepping up. We were building a system to respond, not relying on any one segment to do all of the work alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Bay Area becomes home\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the last 20 years, McZeal built her life in Oakland, earning degrees in psychology and a doctorate in trauma and sound therapy. She said \u003ca href=\"https://decolonizingthepsyche.com/\">her work is deeply shaped\u003c/a> by the traumas she endured after Katrina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a gem in my heart. New Orleans made me. It ushered me into all of the things that I eventually turned into a job, a vocation, a career path,” McZeal said. “I work in cultural transformation now, and I can, for sure, say it’s directly tied to my experience living through Katrina.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has thought about moving back to Louisiana, as other evacuees in the Bay Area have, but she said she’s happy where she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054188\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Smolkin and his wife, Luisa Hernandez, sit in their Half Moon Bay home on Aug. 27, 2025, in a room soon to become a nursery as they prepare for their first child. Smolkin and his family evacuated from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and later resettled in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Maybe one day when I’m old, I’ll settle, because I don’t even want to live in the heat,” she said, laughing. “You know the Bay grows on you. That 61-degree weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Smolkin also found himself resettled in the Bay Area. He arrived with his parents and grandparents to stay with his uncle after floodwaters engulfed their New Orleans home just days after his 17th birthday. Smolkin’s parents decided he should stay with family in Palo Alto to finish high school, while they returned to salvage what they could.[aside postID=arts_13980557 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/250811-POOSIE-HURRICANE-KATRINA-MD-01-KQED.jpg']“Never, in my wildest dreams, did I think that I would end up becoming a Californian,” Smolkin said. “One of the things that I’ve struggled with is I wasn’t there in those couple of months where my parents literally were gutting our house down to the studs, and there was part of me that felt like I was missing out on being part of that recovery effort for my family, but also being there in New Orleans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His parents later rejoined him in the Bay, and he participated in the relief efforts while attending James Madison University in Virginia, where he and his peers \u003ca href=\"https://www.jmu.edu/news/2015/11/20-katrina-mm-oct15.shtml\">routinely traveled into Katrina-ravaged areas\u003c/a> to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smolkin now lives in Half Moon Bay, where he volunteers with \u003ca href=\"https://coastsidehope.org/\">Coastside Hope\u003c/a>, helping people with food insecurity, immigration and other needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to wait until there is something truly bad that happens to jump in, but rather recognizing there are these ongoing, omnipresent needs in the community. We should all be reaching out and helping in our communities in some way,” he said. “That’s part of what really stuck with me from Katrina, that there’s so much value in having strongly built safety nets and coordinated programs to support people when they’re truly in need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054190\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054190\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250827-KATRINABAYEVACUEES-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mementos from New Orleans sit on a shelf in Dan Smolkin’s home in Half Moon Bay on Aug. 27, 2025. He and his family evacuated from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and resettled in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At home, Smolkin and his wife have a room ready for their first child, a boy due in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes Louisiana will remain a part of his son’s life, starting with the family’s annual crawfish boil at his uncle’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, New Orleans isn’t just a place, but it’s an identity, and something that I hope to be able to impart on my kid,” Smolkin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath, 1,833 people died and survivors were left stranded on rooftops as the federal government was slow to respond. Thousands of people — mostly poor and Black — were displaced in one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years later, some who were evacuated and relocated to other parts of the country, including the Bay Area, reflect on how Katrina changed their lives and how they remain rooted to a place that, for them, is more than geography.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of her neighbors, McZeal, who now lives in Oakland, initially planned to ride out Katrina, which made landfall two days before her 22nd birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad I didn’t, because my apartment got 8 feet of water at the bottom and then mold from the roof,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054224\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250828-KatrinaBayEvacuees-04-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber McZeal sits on the porch at DeFremery Park in Oakland on Aug. 28, 2025. 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