The sky over Mill Valley was a crystalline blue, but the tide water was rising fast.
So fast that Rich Sumrall leapt out of his orange Mini Cooper as he tried to exit the parking lot outside Club Evexia fitness center and onto Shoreline Highway, which by late Tuesday morning was submerged under two feet of brackish pond. A brutal Emperor Tide had encroached on the Bay Area, flooding parts of San Francisco the previous afternoon and hitting the North Bay with such intensity that multiple drivers had already been trapped.
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