… Climate scientists have long warned that when storms ride on top of high tides, bayside Marin County will flood and cause chaos, especially in low-lying areas like San Rafael. … Flooding experts predict that the changing climate will turn today’s king tides into the everyday tides of the future. They want Marin County to learn from the recent disaster and to install better pumps, engineer new seawalls and even pilot out-of-the-box ideas like floating homes. … The city’s flatlands are shaped like a bowl, protected by makeshift levees — some constructed with plywood, cement or asphalt — and pumps that are already struggling.

Other flood infrastructure news:

• Times of San Diego: City secures funding for storm drains in Southcrest, hit hard by 2024 floods
• City News Service: San Diego secures $4.6M in federal funds for critical stormwater projects
• Marin Independent Journal (San Rafael, Calif.): Opinion: It’s time for countywide climate resilience district
• KVPR (Fresno, Calif.): Central Valley Roots podcast: How California’s flood of 1861-1862 changed the San Joaquin Valley