The live/work studio of artist Jessyjo Darling sits inundated after floodwaters destroyed the space on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026 in Sausalito, Calif. The region was hit with a series of winter storms and king tides, causing widespread flooding, and some people are turning to community fundraisers for help rebuilding. (GoFundMe via Bay City News)

Two Marin County residents are turning to community fundraisers after recent flooding upended their livelihoods and living situations.

One campaign supports Alexander Rutherford, a dog walker whose car was destroyed by saltwater flooding. A reliable vehicle is essential for his work caring for clients’ dogs across the county.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.