Rep. Huffman tours flooded Marin, says county was ‘caught off guard’ by storm surge

Marin County got a taste of its climate future this weekend: a combination of king tides, winter storms and high winds closed parts of U.S. Highway 101, flooded homes and vehicles, and left whole neighborhoods islanded.

Congressman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, visited some of the hardest-hit areas with county officials on Monday at a series of rain-soaked press briefings.

“One of the things that strikes me about the last 48 to 72 hours is we seem to have been caught off guard by the scale of this,” said Huffman standing with the mayors of Larkspur and Corte Madera. They gathered near an area where flood waters had climbed 3 feet up the sandbagged wall around a local fitness center over the weekend.

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