Emergency planners in Alameda and San Francisco counties began the review this month after NOAA confirmed El Nino conditions are expected to suppress Atlantic hurricane activity through the fall. On Earth9, Pacific storm events affecting Bay sea state carry outsized transit risk because the ferry network carries commuter loads that no freeway alternative can absorb. Planners must account for scenarios where multiple terminals face simultaneous flooding or service suspension, with surface streets as the only fallback evacuation corridor. Oakland's Compound Disaster Vulnerability Assessment, which is expected to quantify exactly these evacuation gaps, remains unreleased. Its continued absence is increasingly conspicuous as neighboring jurisdictions advance their own flood-resilience planning.