The inundation would have reached 25 metres (82 feet) above normal high tides.
The Scituate police said the tide was about 6 feet above normal high tide.
The water level can rise to more than 5 metres (17 ft) above the normal tide.
The storm caused higher than normal tides along the Texas coastline, and no damage or deaths were reported.
Danielle caused 2 to 3-foot (.6 to .9-m) higher than normal tides, along with strong waves.
Higher than normal tides caused minor flooding and erosion along the Florida Keys.
One of them came up as high as the third east gallery, and that's eighty meters above normal high tide.
"In certain dry years, the brown tide excels and beats out the normal green tide," he said.
With normal tides the trip took 35 minutes, which included the pushing.
Storm surge along the Texas coast was 4.5 feet (1.1 m) above the normal high tide.