My sister has lived in her house in York for 20 years, this is the first year she's been getting water in her basement from groundwater seeping in, she's having a sump pump installed although a year like this may never happen again. She had her basement flood twice later in the summer/fall and today.
WE had to at the elementary school I went to back in the 60's, we used to throw rubber balls and branches to Knock them down, they were like a prize back then if you got a couple, we'd put them on our desk.
I remember both of those well, the second one was much worse in my area than the first one. I was 7, my mother wouldn't let me go outside during that storm.