Even the four-lane bypass, Highway 158, which is on higher ground, was swamped over a foot deep when the hurricane made landfall just before high tide, about 1 30.
About 2 30 p.m., when the canal was at low tide, Ms. Wocial said that any rescue operation, if one was to be undertaken, would most likely not be conducted until high tide, about 7 p.m., when rescuers would see if the animal could free itself.
There's a great book by John Barry called "Rising Tide," about the great Mississippi River flood of 1927.
In 1934, Fitzgerald began acting in low-budget British films, notably Turn Of The Tide, about two feuding fishing families.
And when the dolphin died around 6 p.m., an hour or so before high tide, about eight hours after it was first spotted and perhaps four hours after Riverhead arrived on the scene, the second-guessing grew louder.
It will cite John M. Barry's 1998 "Rising Tide," about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, as a model for studying a natural disaster and its wider racial, economic and political ramifications.
