Atlantic Avenue in Boston lived up to its name Thursday, as the storm surge from a devastating January blizzard flooded much of the Boston Harbor waterfront by Long Wharf.
Dozens of Boston Fire and EMS responders set up shop in and around the Marriott Hotel on Long Wharf for a makeshift staging area for the flood relief effort. BFD even deployed an inflatable boat which floated in Atlantic Ave. alongside a fire truck.
The snow was falling so quickly near the Rose Kennedy Greenway that it covered the floodwater, creating a kind of sludge that looked like snow - until a passerby or, say, a heedless reporter, stepped into the ankle-level water.
The Aquarium MBTA station was closed Thursday afternoon because of the flooding, which took much of Atlantic Avenue out of commission for the few drivers on the roads through the storm.
That Blue Line stations tends to flood often, but this was one for the ages, with water pouring down the steps onto the platform, according to a video posted by T officials on Twitter.
High tide was a bit after 12:30 thursday afternoon, and the water receded until it was no longer splashing over the docks and seawalls along the harborwalk and MBTA ferry pier.
The national Weather service reported the tide may have been the highest recorded in Boston since 1921.
