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Blue Mountains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1900

2 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

The Safest Place in a Thunderstorm

The Mountaineer · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 3

As a general rule, avoid sheltering under trees when overtaken by a thunderstorm out in the country. Rather put up with a drenching than run the…

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Leura After a Storm

The Mountaineer · Friday 23 November 1900 · page 3

I take my seat under an overbanging rock from which the big drops are falling and glistening like dis[?]ds in the sunshine. I look to…

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