North wind & shallow bay? Sorry, no capiche the significance ... a north wind makes a shallow bay's water recede? And the Long Island Sound ... was it just an extra low tide that drained it? Or some weird stuff going on further out at sea that one would not see "scheduled" in a tidebook? The Atlantic is so different than the Pacific -- I wouldn't know what to expect!
Along the Gulf of Mexico at strong north wind will blow all the water out of the bays and inlets. If it is strong enough It will even blow the water away from the north side of the gulf. I've never seen the long Island sound drain of water but I have seen the bays on the north shore drained. But in all fairness the draining took many hours. If the bay drain in five minutes I run like hell.