San Rafael residents brace for severe flooding as more rain looms

After another day of high tides, neighborhoods in San Rafael are soaked, with water creeping up to garage doors and flooding front yards. The damage currently being caused by flooding is due to high tides, but San Rafael residents say their main concern is what will happen when the winter storms bring in even more rain.Last January, king tides flooded homes and businesses across Marin County. It was just a month after taqueria El Tucan opened for business in San Rafael's Canal neighborhood."It was like the Russian River over here in the Canal area," Christina Williams with El Tucan said. "I haven't seen it like this since the '80s. It's been almost 40 years."Williams says the flooding this year hasn't been as bad as that, but the restaurant has been impacted by the high tides, as it backs up to San Rafael Creek."We've been getting squeegees and trying to squeegee it out," she said. "Thank god it hasn't gotten into the front dining room but we're pretty scared it's going to come in pre