two in the afternoon
The next morning the water was coming down in torrents . Richling , looking out from a door in Prieur street , found scant room for one foot on the inner edge of the sidewalk ; all the rest was under water . By noon the sidewalks were completely covered in miles of streets . By two in the afternoon the flood was coming into many of the houses . By three it was up at the door-sill on which he stood . There it stopped . He could do nothing but stand and look .