Powlus's parents, Ron Sr., a high school P.E. teacher at Northwest High
in nearby Shickshinny, and Susan, Berwick High's switchboard operator, like to tell about an incident that
occurred during their son's vacation
in Ocean
City, Md., last summer.
For New York
City (which suffered the same flooding during Superstorm Sandy
in late October 2012 as the coast
in nearby New Jersey, shown), floods due to either a storm surge of 1.15 meters (enough to overtop Manhattan's seawall) or a 1 - day rainfall of 12 centimeters (4.7 inches)
occurred, statistically, once every 245 years, the researchers found.