Hundreds of homes and businesses in Marin County were impacted by significant weekend flooding as a large storm and record-high tides combined to inundate coastal communities, local officials said Monday.
Flooding was more widespread than anticipated by forecasters, catching many residents off guard from Sausalito to San Rafael, said Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, who on Monday toured parts of southern Marin County that were hit hard.
“We seem to have been caught off guard by the scale of this … I know this community kind of ground to a halt,” said Huffman, a ranking member of the Committee on Natural Resources, in Corte Madera. “There was no way to get to the hospital.”…