London Floods. Preventing a Recurrence. London, Jan. 13
After personal inquiries into the London flood, the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, has summoned a conference of Government departments…
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Floods & storms, 1928
657 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 33
Heavy Rain. North Coast Again Drenched Sydney
Rain fell throughout the North Coast, Hastings, and Manning and Manning and Northern and Central Tableland. areas yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Terrific Storm. Damage On. North Coast. Severe Hail
A terrific thunderstorm passed over the Alstonvillo and Rous districts at the week—end, causing heavy damage to property…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Three Injured. House Collapses During Storm. Brisbane
During a heavy storm at Dagun. three members of a family named. Comersall, were injured when their house was lifted off the stumps…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Toll of the Storm Damage at Singleton. Vineyards Ruined
Further details are coming to hand concerning the damage caused by the hailstorm at Singleton. The losses at Fordwich are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thames Overflows. London Basements Flooded. Fourteen People Drowned. Terror—stricken People Rescued by Police
As a result of flood water from the melting snows meeting an unusually high tide, the Thames overflowed in the early hours of Saturday morning. London was flooded and many people were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Last Big Flood in 1235. (British Official Wireless). Jan. 8
Saturday morning's flooding of London riverside districts was due the high tide, the swollen state of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tidal Bore the Cause. Lord Desborough's View of Floods. London, January. 9
Lord Desborough, chairman of the Thomas Conservancy Board, gives it as his opinion that the floods were not due to the Thames waters, but to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Town Wrecked. Floods in Brazil, Thousands Homeless Vancouver (B.c.), Jan. 13
The town of Diamantina, 300 miles north of Rio Janciro, has been destroyed by floods. It is reported that more han 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Weather. Heavy Rain. Central-western Plains Didnefit. Sydney
Rain, heavy and of a general nature, has fallen over practically the whole State during the past 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Rain. Over an Inch at Muswellbrook
Following a grand display of lightning last, evening a heavy rainstorm drenchecl the district. At Muswellbrook 105 points of rain fell, while the fall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Houses Flooded. Violent Storms in Melbourne Vivid Lightning
Heralded by vivid lightning and reverberating thunder, a spectacular thunderstorm burst over Melbourne and suburbs shortly after 7.30 last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fierce Storm. Trains Struck by Lightning. Houses Flooded in Melbourne. MELBOURNE
During last night's thunderstorm, an electric train, entering Spencer street statoin, was struck by lightning, while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne's Storm Trains Struck, Houses Flooded. Melbourne
During last night's thunderstorm an electric train entering Spencer-street was struck by lightning, while another train was struck at, Moonee Ponds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Town Wrecked. Floods in Brazil. Thousands Homeless. Vancouver (B.c.), Jan. 13
The town of Diamantina, 300 miles north of Ric Janciro, has been destroyed by floods. it is reported that more than 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Killed by Tree. Storm Fatality in Victoria
Sheltering in a shod from a storm, Alfred Drury, 41, a mill hand, was killed instantly when a tree crashed on to it at Warburton (Vic.). Two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain Storms Extensive Damage
Further heavy rain was experienced on Friday over an extensive area of country. At Milby Valley, near Condobolin,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light to Heavy Rain. Sydney
Light to heavy rain, with many thunderstorms, was, fairly general over lite north-eastern duarter of the State yesterday. Light falls were also…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Makambo in Cyclone
Overtaken by a cyclone when two days out from Vila, New Hebrides, the steamer Makamibo had her decks swept with mountainous seas, which stove in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Violent Storm. Great Downpour at Dorrigo. Sydney
Dorrigo was swept by a torrential rainstorm last night. The violence, of the downpour can be imagined by the fact that in 35 minutes two inches of…
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