The high tides inundated town streets under 2 ft (0.6 m).

Describing photographs the couple have taken of water in the garden as "sensational", Mr Console-Verma insisted that high tides only inundate the garden on 0.6 per cent of the days of the year.

The unusually strong tide inundated Matagorda under 6 ft (1.8 m) of seawater.

Two further Open Championships were scheduled to be held there in 1938 and 1948 but both had to be relocated when abnormally high tides inundated the course.

Salt Water Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) grows along ditches and on the seaside edges of marshes where high tides daily inundate it.

These are some of the developments they cite: *A new tide of the "working poor"-- once self-sufficient families laid low by the recession and unemployment - has inundated the food pantries and soup kitchens.

A tide of licensed merchandise inundated the school: Hello Kitty combs, mirrors, pencil cases, notebooks, barrettes, coin purses, watches, stickers, nail care kits, address books, packages of tissues.

In January 2012, very high tides inundated the island's cemetery and damaged sacred gravesites.

This time he outdid himself, for he said: 'Your Majesty, your servants have placed the picnic chairs and tables where the rising tide will inundate us all.'

The high tides sometimes inundated the garden.