While state and local governments slowly push for long-term fixes for sea level rise, much of the burden of storm readiness for this year’s super El Niño conditions will come down to sandbags and preparation.

A long to-do list for residents was part of a flood risk presentation to the San Rafael City Council on Monday by the city’s climate adaptation and resilience planner, Kate Hagemann, and deputy director of emergency management, Quinn Gardner.

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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.