Maybe apocryphal, but I've read that some people survived atop houses that were swept across Long Island Sound.
THE MIRACULOUS RIDE
As the family moved first to the second floor and finally to the third floor to stay above the storm surge, they watched as house after house succumbed. They saw neighbors washed away. Finally, the waves overwhelmed their own house, lifting it off its foundation.
“Next thing I knew, we were floating,” Moore recalled. “We were on the water with the waves crashing over us, and part of the house still attached, one of the walls still attached to this piece of floor, and it almost acted as a sail.”
In all, 10 people clung to that bit of floor as it hurdled across the sound to land in Connecticut, where the family then stepped back on to land and back into their lives.
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/one-familys-miraculous-ride-during-1938-storm-breezy-day/
