As the peninsula is only a few few feet above sea level, it becomes completely submerged during high water. This happens frequently during severe storms. During one of these storms a few years after the war the peninsula was completely submerged and all the people on it perished in the Gulf.
The peninsula was almost a barren sand-bar. There was very little vegetation, except wild grass, rushes and a few cactus, which grew to a very large size. On the Gulf side of the peninsula, the wind and the tide formed the sand into large dunes.
Although they were almost surrounded by salt-water, they could find drinking water by digging holes two or three feet into the sand.
