“Too much of a stretch for me, especially since there isn’t enough water on earth to do that.”
Yet..... there was in the not to distant past, a Great Flood.
About 12,800 years ago. But it did not cover the land mass of the entire planet.
Genesis 9:13-17
New American Standard Bible
13 I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall [a]serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
All flesh. Every creature. Not just certain geographic regions.