Ah, I see. I'm taking a grain of salt with everything including the term "global flood". The pole flip events would impact almost the entire planet if not the whole planet but there would be certain locations that are more survivable than others.
But, 99% of life gets wiped out in these events and that's what leads to the observed leaps of evolution known as "punctuated equilibrium". Malnourished survivors and their malnourished offspring would become smaller versions of the species from which they sprang. This is why the New Siberian Islands have remains of goat sized beavers but today we have no goat sized beavers. It also explains why each vintage of species is found within a single stratigraphic layer. There's a reason that within each stratigraphic layer we only find animals of the same evolutionary vintage.
To your point, the equatorial pivot points would experience less chaos so survivability would be greater at those locations. Likewise high elevations on the eastern slope of mountains located somewhat far away from western ocean shores would be survivable too.