Businesses, nonprofits, and residents affected by severe winter storms that struck Marin County in early January can now apply for low-interest federal disaster loans. The loans follow an emergency proclamation issued by the county after widespread damage from excessive rainfall, flooding, and record king tides.

As of Friday, the U.S. Small Business Administration began offering disaster loans to help cover physical damage and economic losses incurred between Dec. 31 and Jan. 5. The storms caused extensive coastal and inland flooding, road closures, utility disruptions, landslides, and displacement of residents.

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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.