Another round of rain, 7-foot King Tides coming to Bay Area

The Bay Area will see a brief respite from rain Monday afternoon before another storm system moves in overnight and King Tides flood coastal roadways for much of the remaining week, forecasters say.

Drizzle and showers were expected to continue Monday on the tail of the mammoth storm the day before that uprooted trees and power lines, shutting down some highways and factoring in to the deaths of three people, including a woman killed by a falling tree.

Up north, the Russian River continued to rise Monday morning after hitting flood stage on Sunday, causing major flooding in several neighborhoods.

Local officials expected up to 550 homes to experience flooding.

Residents in low-lying areas around Monte Rio and Guerneville were ordered to evacuate before the river broke its banks Sunday.

The storm system moving in Tuesday was expected to drop an inch or 2 of rain on the Bay Area and up to 4 inches in the North Bay and Santa Cruz mountains, said Steve Anderson, a National Weather Service forecaster.

[...] on the shoreline, King Tides between 6 and 7 feet were expected to flood the usually vulnerable areas: along the Embarcadero in San Francisco and on some roads in Sausalito and Tiburon.