A little calculation:
In the secular calendar, we are in the year 2013. We are in the year 5774 in the Jewish calendar.
So 2013-5774= 3761.
3761 BCE is the year the world was created in the Torah tradition.
Noah was born in the year 1056 (2705 BCE) and the flood began when he was 600(year 1556/ 2105 BCE).
This coincides with the 11th dynasty of Egypt, when Intef II was pharaoh. Nowhere in that history do they mention everyone dying out by flood.
All different cultures can have flood “stories,” but if one of the most reliable sources doesn’t mention a word about it, I tend to believe that it was simply a “story.”