On May 5 , the Canadian Forces were requested Request to help Assistance evacuate Emptying residents and build Building dikes to try to protect Defending areas at risk .

The floods destroyed Destroying bridges and dikes and flooded Destroying many cities along the inner reaches of the river , which reached Achieve its highest water levels since 1865 .

As the river overflowed Motion its banks , floods breached Damaging the dikes at Piedras Negras , Coahuila , destroying Destroying large sections of the town .

although he lost Earnings_and_losses surprise due to the famously high tides of the bay of fundy , church quickly gained Getting control Control of UNK , and spent Expend_resource three days destroying Destroying the town and attempting to destroy Destroying the dikes and levees that protected its croplands .

The croplands were flooded Filling by salt water , but the local Acadians quickly repaired Recovering the dikes after the raiders left Departing , and the land was returned Arriving to production Creating .

Many vegetable plantings , citrus groves , and cattle were submerged Motion or drowned Death as the storm Catastrophe exacerbated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale already high water levels and briefly threatened Warning to breach the dikes surrounding Lake Okeechobee .

However , the dikes held Defending firm , and evacuations were otherwise credited with minimizing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the potential death Death toll .

Most of the deaths Death occurred Coming_to_be near Lake Okeechobee , when a large storm Catastrophe surge breached muck dikes and drowned Death hundreds of people .