Downtown Businesses: Get Storm Ready
Downtown businesses: Take steps now to protect your employees, storefront, and inventory from heavy rain, flooding, high winds, and power outages, and high tides this winter.
Prepare now, not when it's happening.
Things to do:
- Sign up for alerts: Register for AlertMarin and encourage managers to enroll.
- Stock emergency supplies: Prepare a kit with water, nonperishable food, medications, flashlights, batteries, and other essentials.
- Protect your property: Move inventory, equipment, and records off the floor; secure outdoor furniture and displays; and coordinate gutter and drainage maintenance with your property owner. If flooding is a concern, prepare sandbags to help redirect water.
- Know your flood risk: Check County hazard maps and monitor weather forecasts and high tides.
- Make a business plan: Update emergency contacts, establish staff notification and closure procedures, back up records, and review insurance coverage.
- Stay informed and safe: Follow official City and County emergency updates. Never walk, swim, or drive through floodwaters.
Sandbag Locations in San Rafael
Check the City’s sandbag page for current availability and pickup instructions:
- Terra Linda Community Center: 670 Del Ganado Road
- Menzies Parking Lot, next to Falkirk Cultural Center: 1428 Mission Avenue
- Peacock Gap Park Parking Lot: 699 Biscayne Drive
- Albert J. Boro Community Center, East Parking Lot: 50 Canal Street
Report non-emergency street flooding or clogged drains through SeeClickFix. Call 911 for emergencies or downed power lines.
Read the City’s full business storm-preparedness guide for more resources: