Extreme high tides across the Bay Area flooded Miller Avenue in Mill Valley on Monday, apparently catching at least one motorist off-guard. The driver was seen in video from KTVU-TV hanging out of his window as a tow truck pulled his car from the flooded road.
Roadway flooding is expected to return multiple times this week and could be just the start of a nightmare for the region during El Niño. According to a new report from the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, the high risk of flooding this winter threatens key infrastructure statewide.
“The combination of Kelvin waves, king tides, heavy precipitation and the repeated storms pushing water into the bay could add up to 3 feet of the shore fairly easily,” Fraser Shilling, the report’s author and the director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, told SFGATE…