Well, on the Charles River, the flooding wasn't so bad, the reason being that you have a flood system in place which is one of the best in the country. You have the dam down by the Fleet Center in Boston which had six locomotive engines in it that allowed for the pumpage of flow out into the harbor against the incoming surge tide. And you have 23,000 acres of wetlands upstream, which allowed for storage of flood waters. So although some water did come up, the damage was limited. What happened in the Muddy River, Stonybrook, and Back Bay area was the result of putting tributaries into culverts.
Culverts have a limited capacity.
They become surcharged and the water ends up backing up into people's homes, into the T, all over the place. And that's actually the water that caused all the problem this time. Well, it probably was. Like the Sears Building. They built right over the culverts for the Muddy River, which disappears from there.