Storms No Longer Affect Electricity Supply
The Chief Electrical Engineer of the City Council (Mr. S. D. Berry) said yesterday that the heavy lightning flashes experienced at the height of the storm on…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Victoria Takes Stock of Damage by Storm
Melbourne: With the skies still overcast, Melbourne is taking stock today of the widespread damage caused by yesterday's record one-day deluge. Hundreds…
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London, Sunday: Gales of up to 80 miles an hour swept Germany and Holland today, causing heavy damage…
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Dublin, Thurs.: Three rivers burst their banks during wild gales in Ireland today and created the worst floods in history. A state of emergency has been declared in several…
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Isolated thunderstorms late yesterday and during the night brought further rain to some areas of the outback and cut road communications with Tibooburra and Wentworth. Heaviest falls were along…
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Isolated thunderstorms late yesterday and during the night brought further rain to some areas of the outback and cut road communications with Tibooburra and Wentworth. Heaviest falls were along…
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During the early stages of Saturday's storm lightning struck several mains, particularly in the Wills Street…
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Paris, Dec. 12.—Five men perished in the storm-tossed Bay of Biscay after the Dutch trawler Ariel, 398 tons,…
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A severe thunderstorm which broke over the city shortly before 8.30 on Saturday gave a registration of 38 points of rain at the Post Office…
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Melbourne: Residents of Rochester, 138 miles north of Melbourne, spent an anxious night in their sandbagged homes, following a warning that the swollen…
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SWIRLING FLOODWATERS mark the spot where a canoe capsized in the Maribyrnong Riven, Melbourne, during the storm. A boy was drowned—Wire photo…
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Singapore, Wed.: The R.A.F. continued operation "flood rescue" over a wide area of southern Malaya…
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London, Tues.: Athlone, with a population of 8,000, was seriously threatened by floodwaters from the River…
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CLEANING UP is now the big job in hand after the recent floods in England. Here Mr. Bob Philips dries out household goods in Kendal, West-morland. Kendal is on the fringe of Britain's Lake…
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Broken Hill received only five points of rain[?]in thunderstorms last night and the early hours of this morning…
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London, Wed.: A severe gale hurling high seas against the rebuilt seawalls of the East England lowlands, today threatened a repetition of last winter's floods…
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London: Panic-stricken Egyptian peasants. many screaming "the end of the world is coming," fell [?]on…
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London, Dec. 23. — Fierce gales which damaged buildings, dislocated traffic and…
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Lundoii: 1cy gales continued to whip across Europe today, killing al least 14 persons. The gales have brought threats of disastrous…
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Washington, Wed.: The Federal Soil Conservation Service said the dust storm danger on the Great Plains…
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