Flooding Risk In Q'ld Abates
Sydney, February 20.—Flooding risk in the Tweed and Richmond River basins appears to have passed its peak, says the State Weather Bureau. The anti-cyclone…
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Floods & storms, 1950
386 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 20
Diamentina River in Flood
On his return today from a medical patrol in the Birdville area the flying doctor (Dr. L. W. Alderman) reported the Diamentina River to be in flood…
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Brisbane.—Torrential rains of 5 to 10 inches have fallen on the central Queensland coast in a renewal of flood conditions in that…
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Brisbane.—Two men were drowned yesterday in the worst floods in Queensland for years. According to Weather Bureau officiais, about two-thirds of the State is waterlogged…
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Chicago, March 9.—America's worst winter windstorm yesterday turned eastward Lorn the Cr[?] Lakes region and left a trail of new destruction…
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Sydney.—Anticipating that a cyclone will hit them today, the Weather Bureau has warned people on the central Queensland coast to batten down roofs and to remain indoors…
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Brisbane.—After their 8½ hour cyclone ordeal, 400 Carmila people have set about the task of…
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Brisbane. March 13.—Anxiety is felt for the safety of residents of Flaggy Rock, four miles oft Camilla, from whom nothing has been heard since…
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BRISBANE.—An emergency call for food has been made from the townships of Jundah and Stonehenge, which are isolated by floods…
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There will be no play in Cricket League matches at the Turf Oval tomorrow, and each of the four teams participating will receive two points. The ground was inspected by the ground committee of…
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At least one house is marooned through heavy rain in the district covered by the local Flying Doctor base, and eight men of Enterprise…
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FIRST PICTURES of Samage caused by a cyclone at Carmila in Northern Queensland show (TOP)—This entire block…
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Melbourne.—The worst fleed in the memory of local residents has turned the Goulburn Valley into a vast lake. There ls not a…
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Record-breaking floodwater have inundated Durrie Station homestead. Reports received at the Flying Doctor base today said the…
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A stretch of water, nearly half-a-mile long and nine inches deep, makes the Adelaide road impassable about four miles on the far side of Cockburn. A traveller who made the…
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Melbourne.—Shepparton police last night broadcast instructions for Wyuna residents to leave the town before morning. They fear floodwaters rushing down the already…
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Floodwaters were likely to prevent trains getting further north than Farina uneil the weekend, said the Chief Traffic…
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Melbourne.—Low depression areas, which brought heavy rains to the Wimmera last night and early today, threaten to increase the already serious flood in the Goulburn Valley…
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Mr. Price reported from Muloorine Station on Tuesday that Frome Creek, which divides Muloorlna and Lake Letty Stations, had reached within one…
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Sydney.—More than 2000 people have evacuated their homes at Wagga (N.S.W.), where flood waters from the Murrumbidgee are expected to inundate half the city today…
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