Where did satan and his angels go during the flood in Noah's time?

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We know that after Satan’s rebellion in heaven, he was “cast to the earth” (Rev. 12:9). He, however, appears to have had limited access to heaven before the Cross (see Job 1:6 where Satan intrudes into a heavenly council, where there were apparently angelic representatives (‘sons of God’) from various parts of God’s unfallen realms. Thinking himself to be the ambassador of Planet Earth, he felt entitled to be there). But after Calvary, when Satan was fully unmasked and his final destruction confirmed, it appears that the Archenemy and his evil hosts were permanently bound to this earth (cf. Luke 10:18, where Satan’s metaphoric fall from heaven is linked to Calvary). Although the Flood takes place before Calvary, with the possibility that Satan could have escaped the destruction, it appears more likely that God had forced him and his hosts to be present amidst the destruction – to witness first-hand the devastating results of the sin they had introduced into the world, and to serve as a reminder and warning of the complete eradication of all sin and sinners in the future (Rev. 20:10). During the cataclysmic destruction of the world through water, Satan and his cohorts must have surely feared for their own existence (cf. James 2:19 where it mentions that demons ‘tremble’).