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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

289 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 15

Storm at Hawaii Downpour Floods Lowlands. Honolulu

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1927 · page 5

Torrential downpours, accompanied by thunder and lightning, drenched Hawaii in the worst storm for 25 years.The island of Oahu bore the brunt of the storm…

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Sand on Clouds Rain-Making Experiments Drought in Africa Settlers Fear Flood Rains. Capetwon

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 December 1927 · page 5

A peculiar position has arisen in consequence of the offer by the AntiDrought Association, to conduct rain making experiments by dropping…

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Mail Train Delayed Four Hours Railway Line Flooded. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 December 1927 · page 5

Reading more like fiction than fact is the tale of how Ganger Ryan saved the Kempsey mail train from certain disaster yesterday…

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Faint Taps Men In Submarine Storms Prevent Rescue Hope Rapidly Fading. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 5

Faint sounds were heard to-day, at noon, from within the sunken United States submarine S4, in which six men are trapped…

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A Deluge. Seven Inches in 20 MINUTES

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 1

A cloudburst at Ward's River, between Dungog and Gloucester, on Monday afternoon caused a deluge. Seven inches fell in 20 minutes and…

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Oranges From Spain London Market Flooded. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 5

A feature of London Christmas markets has been the enormous supplies of Spanish oranges. Already 209 million have been auctioned. Prices are very low and…

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Proofs Peep Out Houses Snowed Under Cars and Trains Lost Big Floods Feared. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 5

Gangs have been working ceaselessly all day digging out snowed up trains all over the country. The majority of the main lines are…

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Paroo in Flood River Five Miles Wide. Thargomindah

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 5

The Paroo River is reported to be five miles wide at Eulo and the flood waters are still rising. The Quilpie mail has been overdue a…

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Tanks at Work Clearing the Snowdrifts Arctic Weather Continues Snow, Frost and Gales. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 December 1927 · page 5

Britain is still in the grip of Arctic weather conditions, nine degrees of frost now prevailing and increasing the difficulty in clearing…

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