The GGNRA has announced that the date for the Baker-Barry Tunnel construction closure has been pushed back one week to January 9, 2017. The tunnel will remain closed until early May, 2017 for repairs.
There will also be a one-day closure for construction preparation on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016.
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Sausalito Police have alerted us that as of 3:05 PM on Tuesday, December 27 an overturned cement truck is blocking Lower Crescent Drive near Main St. above Old Town, and residents will have to take alternate routes.
The same home was hit by a runaway asphalt truck from the Rodeo Ave. repaving project six months ago and suffered major damage. We were told that the residents were not hurt in either incident.
The load in the concrete truck apparently shifted on the uneven street pavement and the shifting weight was enough to tip over the truck.
Update 8:00 PM: As of tonight the truck has been disconnected from the steel container holding the concrete and hauled away. We understand the container will be broken up and hauled away due to the weight of the concrete.
Update: Helicopter video from KRON.
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This is going to be an especially active New Year’s Eve in Sausalito, with special musical performances by local stars like Joe Tate and Cole Tate, and international recording artist Chuchito Valdes. Several restaurants are also hosting special events.
With luck the fog may also allow us to see the midnight fireworks across the Bay in San Francisco.
Click here for a list of what’s happening on New Year’s Eve.
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This weekend’s storm has the potential to produce the worst flooding in Sausalito that we have seen in many years. Please take precautions now, and we have advice from the Sausalito Police Dept. below.
The Sausalito Public Works Department is offering a supply of sand and sandbags at the Martin Luther King School parking lot, across from the school gym. Enter the lot from Coloma Street, and the sand and sandbags are available 24 hours a day during the storm for Sausalito residents and merchants.
If there is an emergency and you need additional materials, you can contact the Sausalito Police Department at 415-289-4170 and they can give you access to additional sand and sandbags at the City Yard at 530 Nevada Street.
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For recorded updates on conditions in Sausalito during the storm, you can call the city’s automated emergency information line at 415-289-4151.
Click here for information on Sausalito flood zones and a map of the most vulnerable areas.
The National Weather Service actually compared the series of storms we are currently facing to the winter of 1982 yesterday. For those of you who missed it, that was the most destructive flood year in modern memory, so the comparison definitely got my attention! Update: They closed Muir Woods Sunday morning due to the high winds, which is a rare break in their “open 365 days a year policy.”
There’s also a one-two punch coming:
When you add rain runoff from soil that is already saturated from the last storm the flooding from the King Tides could be severe enough to completely cover a parked car in some of our lowest lying streets.
Here’s their advice as we all prepare for this storm and the King Tides, with a few additional comments from my experience as a Marin native:
Check the drains or gutters at your home. If they get clogged you can get a lot of water damage very quickly. A clogged storm drain on the street above my parents’ house in the 1982 storms overflowed and almost broke their carport in half by undercutting the foundation. The resulting crack made the carport almost 3 inches wider in 1983 than it was in 1981!
Move anything that isn’t waterproof from areas where you’ve seen water get in during past storms, including the garage or carport.
Make sure you and your extended family have enough food, water and batteries for the next few days. If you have elderly or disabled neighbors please check in on them as well to make sure they’re prepared.
Recharge your laptop, phone, tablet and your backup charger in case the power goes out and PG&E can’t get to the problem for a while.
If a storm drain on your street starts overflowing and you don’t see Public Works crews in your area, IF AND ONLY IF YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY put on highly reflective rain gear and see if you can remove the leaves to restore water flow, which could prevent flooding at your home and your neighbors’.
Do this ONLY for small residential storm drains, NEVER for big ones with pipes wider than 12 inches or with catch basins bigger than your foot. In larger storm drains that look clogged there may be enough water still flowing to suck you in and below the surface where you can drown, which happened to a local boy when I was a kid. Just stay away from any large drain or culverts.
Always call 9-1-1 if you see a fallen tree or live wires. Never attempt to move any wires from the street or from your property by yourself, because they can kill you. Don’t assume that they’re just TV or data wires, because many electrical cables look just like cable TV or Internet cables.
Call PG&E at 800-743-5002 to report any power outages, and they have information on estimated repair times. You can also check out the PG&E website.
Be careful out there, my friends!
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PG&E and Sausalito Police have reported that almost one third of Sausalito homes have lost electrical power on the evening of January 8. They do not yet have a projected time when power will be restored.
Update: As of 9:00 PM they have the nuumber of homes affected down to about 15% of Sausalito.
For updates you can call PG&E at 1-800-743-5002. Please do not call City offices or departments since PG&E has the information and they don’t.
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2:45 PM Update: Sausalito Police say that Gate Five Road has now been reopened. Eeven after the rains subside, however, please be careful because we have King Tides again tomorrow morning.
The combination of King Tides and continued heavy rain has closed Gate 5 Road. The closure was initially back at Varda’s Landing, but as the tide has started to ebb the closure is just south of Coloma St. (as shown in the late morning photo above).
Sausalito Police has done some drivers a favor by posting the “Salt Water” sign you see above bu the closure. Driving through salt water unleashes chemical processes that are difficult to reverse and starts corrosion on the underside of your car or truck that may total the vehicle in just a few months. Put another way, trucks and SUV’s, not just cars, are not engineered to drive through salt water.
Westbound Highway 1 is also closed by flooding between Sausalito and Tam Junction, so for now that route to West Marin is cut off.
Muir Woods has also been closed for the day due to high winds.
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Although the rains have subsided, the current wave (sic) of King Tides just keeps on giving.
Gate 5 Road continues to be closed between Harbor Drive and Varda Landing Road, which is also flooded.
Unlike yesterday, Coloma St. and the parking lot at the office building at the intersection of Gate 5 Road and Coloma St. are flooded.
Some cars were driving through the water on both streets, but it’s salt water from the high tides (some of it pumped from adjacent buildings) so that’s a bad idea: salt water will corrode your car’s electrical system and other components, creating irreversible damage that gets worse for months and is very expensive to repair.
Please be careful out there! Thursday will be the last day of this King Tides cycle.
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Theme: “Love Letter from San Francisco”
Where: Madrigal Family Winery Tasting Room, Sausalito
When: Reception with the Artist is Friday, January 13, 2017, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, with live music
RSVP Contact: RSVP required via email to sausalito@madrigalfamilywinery.com or 415-729-9549
Exhibition Dates: Through February 1, 2017
Artist: Patrick Bornemann
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This is supposed to be the last day of this cycle of tides high enough to qualify as King Tides, but it has offered both familiar and new challenges.
I went up to Safeway in Mill Valley to pick up a few things and realized that deep salt water puddles blocked my path both to the northbound 101 ramp at Seminary and the Southbound ramp on the other side of the freeway. I had to go up to Blithedale to re-enter southbound 101 to Sausalito safely. (Click here for why salt water puddles are toxic to modern cars when fresh water is no big deal.)
Gate 5 Road is closed again this morning, and Coloma St. has puddles deep enough that it’s unwise to drive through them.
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Rather than post yet another image of a closed Gate 5 Road, I chose the photo above. It shows the Mill Valley – Sausalito Multi-Use Path flooded by King Tides, with the Northbound 101 on-ramp on the left and Gate 6 1/2 Road on the right both just above the flood zone. They need to add a picture of a boat to that “Share the Path” sign!
Be careful out there, my friends!
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What: 40th Anniversary of the Red Legs’ voyage to Costa Rica, with Joe Tate and other members of the 1970’s Red Legs and the modern Hippie Voices sharing memories and stories of the time.
Where: Sausalito Cruising Club, Sausalito
When: Saturday, January 14, 2017, 8:00 PM
Cost: Non-Members $10
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Sausalito’s transit options will be easy to remember on Monday for Martin Luther King Day:
The Sausalito Ferry schedule will be a standard weekend / holiday affair.
Golden Gate Transit buses will run on a normal Monday schedule.
If you’re going from Larkspur, they have a special MLK Day Parade sailing at 9:35, and an expanded holiday schedule of sailings. We have the details here.
We hope you have a great time!
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On Friday January 20, 2017 from 10:00 AM to Noon the “Bridge Together Golden Gate” event will take place on The Golden Gate Bridge, with as many as 3,000 people linking up on the San Francisco side (East Sidewalk) of the Bridge and potentially through the parking lots.
This is a planned event that has secured all necessary permits, not a disruption-type protest, and they are explicitly asking that no one interfere with the flow of traffic on the Bridge.
All of the parking lots adjacent to the Bridge will be closed for the event, so use mass transit or rideshare if you’re going.
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Update: Sausalito city crews got one lane of Bridgeway open at about 2:30 AM. Thanks to the people who worked so late to re-open the roadway under such tough conditions.
A mudslide on Bridgeway tonight has closed the southbound lanes between Nevada St.and Spring St. (the 2300 block of Bridgeway). This is where Bridgeway goes over a small ridge above the area where the Sausalito Art Festival is held, and there is an embankment rather than buildings on the uphill side of the street.
The landslide happened just before 9:00 PM, and thus far we have received no reports of damage to homes or structures.
We have a map of the easiest detour around the problem below. When you pass the Bay Model the road jogs right andthen passes through the narrow parking lot that parallels Bridgeway to re-connect with Marinship Way, since both ends of Marinship Way leading into the Bay Model are one way streets. This detour works southbound, but the northbound road is no longer open between the Bay Model and Marinship Park.
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City crews are working to clear the mud and re-open the road. Sausalito Police have not yet been given an estimated time for the re-opening.Thanks to the Sausalito PD for alerting the media.
Note: In the map below Google Maps would not trace the right route for cars so I marked it as walking. This route does work when you’re driving (southbound only), and I use it all the time to get to my office.
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Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Place: Sausalito Bakery & Cafe, 571 Bridgeway, Sausalito CA 94965 (See map below)
The Sausalito Police Department has a unique program where they pick a local coffee spot, a day and a time, and they come over to share a coffee and talk with anyone in the community who wants to sit down with them about whatever the person has on their mind.
The department’s goal is to eliminate barriers between police and and individuals in the community by simply showing up and being open to talking. In the process of local people raising concerns and asking questions the hope is that the individual people in the conversation will get to know each other better. That in turn makes it a lot easier to avoid misunderstandings.
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Book Passage is a local treasure, with active book shops in Corte Madera and in The Ferry Building in San Francisco. This week they add a third store to their family, which they call Book Passage By the Bay, just a block from the ferry pier in Sausalito.
Their grand opening celebration will be this Saturday, February 4th from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
We have a map and contact information on our Book Passage page.
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The Marin County Sheriff has just notified us that Sausalito-Marin City School District (except for Willow Creek Academy) and all Tamalpais Union High School District campuses as well as other Marin school districts (Kentfield, Ross) are closed today due to potential flooding and high winds from this storm. Update: All districts plan to re-open schools normally tomorrow.
Update: From the Sausalito Police Dept.: Two mudslides have blocked roads in Sausalito:
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Crews are working to clear these roads and Sausalito Police are directing traffic. Please avoid these streets and take alternative routes.
3:00 PM update: Sir Francis Drake Blvd. westbound is closed by a slide at Samuel P. Taylor Park. Marin County Fire says they do not expect the roadway to reopen until tomorrow.
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9:00 AM Update:About half of Sausalito homes are without power, so you may be reading this on your cell phone.You can call 1-800-743-5002 for updates from PG&E.
Update: The flooding at the Sausalito Exit from Highway 101 southbound has retreated and no lanes of the freeway are now blocked.
Update: The flooding on southbound Highway 101 at Sir Francis Drake Blvd. has receded and is no longer blocking lanes of the freeway.
Highway 37 has been closed in both directions by flooding between Highway 101 and Atherton Ave. in Novato.
Muir Woods has been closed for the day due to high winds and high creek levels
Panoramic Highway has been closed between Highway 1 and Pantoll because of fallen trees.
Both campuses of College of Marin are also closed.
Creek levels to the north in Fairfax, San Anselmo and Corte Madera all reached flood stage this morning at about 7:00 AM and there is significant flooding all along the Ross Valley. Central Marin Police have asked people to stay away from downtown San Anselmo due to flooding. Downtown Ross is also experiencing flooding.
Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Greenbrae has now reopened after being closed in front of the Bon Air Shopping Center between Eliseo Dr. and La Cuesta Drive, although there is a lot of sentiment in places.
Other closures from CHP:
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If you haven’t heard, Alexander Ave. and the Sausalito Lateral (the road to the Golden Gate Bridge) have been re-opened after the landslide this morning.
I drove the road late this morning and also visited the San Carlos and Bridgeway slides. All appear to be holding for now.
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The Bridge District is closing both directions of the southern main access road that connects Sausalito to Highway 101 at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge on Tuesday morning, February 14 between about 9:30 AM and noon. Their objective is to remove a tree that was destabilized in one of the recent mudslides and is now hanging over the roadway, and the closure may run long if the tree is uncooperative
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The easiest detour route is to continue north on Highway 101 through the Robin Williams Tunnel over the Waldo Grade to the northern Sausalito exit, which leads directly to the north end of Bridgeway.
The road is called the Sausalito Lateral as it nears the Bridge, and Alexander Ave. as it approaches the Old Town neighborhood on the southern end of Sausalito. The closure will extend from Edwards Avenue to Bunker Road (see map below), so cutting through Fort Baker won’t necessarily get you around the closure.
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Although cars will not be allowed to pass, bike riders and pedestrians may be allowed to use the route if the current work does not endanger them when they arrive at the scene of the slide.
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Date: Saturday, April 8, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: The Spinnaker Restaurant, 100 Spinnaker Dr., Sausalito CA 94965 (See map below)
Cost: $150 per person
Organizers: Sausalito Rotary Club
75 years ago, just a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, the Marinship Shipyard in Sausalito began production on merchant vessels needed to support the Navy and Marines in the Pacific.
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Sausalito Rotary is sponsoring this year’s 75th anniversary dinner gala, which benefits the Rotary Educational Scholarship Fund, Rotary Senior Housing, the Sausalito Historical Society and Rotary International Humanitarian Efforts.
Radio Sausalito‘s own Jonathan Westerling (a jazz and swing music scholar in addition to his other considerable skills) will provide authentic period dance music for the event.
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You can also sponsor a table or donate items for the raffle or auction by visiting the event website.
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Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Place: Studio 333, 3333 Caledonia St., Sausalito CA 94965 (See map below)
Cost: Free
Organizers: Sausalito Chamber of Commerce
The Sausalito Chamber of Commerce is hosting a forum to ask for feedback and input from local home-based business owners on programs that could support independent businesses.
Light refreshments will be served. You can reserve a spot for free here.
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