Storm Damage Lithgow
A heavy storm caused extensive damage to resemble gardens. In half an hour an inch of rain fell and ball cut its way through vegetables…
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Floods & storms, 1940
271 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 14
Light Rain Scattered Storms Hot Yesterday
Tropical regions of low pressure between two high pressure systems brought scattered light rain and thunderstorms on the northern and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods Follow ’ Quake Pitiful Scenes in Turkey (“Mercury” Service) ISTANBUL. December 31
A new terror is sweeping Western Turkey as the flood waters from the rivers in Smyrna, Burse and Adrianople districts are devastating the countryside. The inhabitants, cattle and crops have been engulfed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Light Rain on North Coast Tenterfield Benefits From Storm
At [?] to-day the weather was cloudy to overcast on the coast of New Soult Wales, the Northern Tablelands and the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Terror Floods in 'Quake Zone Many Go Mad Istanbul, Dec. 31
A new terror is sweeping western Turkey, devastated on Wednesday by earthquake, as flood-waters from the rivers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extensive Floods In Western Turkey Hundreds Meet Death by Drowning
Floods in Western Turkey have proved more extensive than. at first reported. It is still raining. Towns ancd wllages are submerged over- an area 350 miles' wide! Six hundred people are estimated to have been drowned at Kemal Pasha…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lull Before the Storm [?] Few Cases of Inebriety DUNGOG
Whether offenders against sobriety have been influenced by some temperance society or whether there prevails a [?]ll before the storm” is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Rain. Floods Near Darwin DARWIN
Large areas of country to the south of Darwin have been flooded by heavy rain in the last two days. The weekly train which runs from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Express Delayed Storm Damage At Tamworth SYDNEY,Monday
The Brisbane Empress, which was delayed for nearly four hours of flood warlords which damaged the railway line around Tamworth in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Mass on Dutch Frontiers invasion Of lowlands Feared Hundreds og boats to cope with floods
Equipped with hundreds of flat-bottomed boats, which can each carry 15 men, with their arms, German troops have been massing on the Dutch frontiers, and an invasion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cloudburst Near Tamworth Lines Washed Away and Houses Flooded
A cloudburst in the hills behind Tamworth yesterday afternoon washed away the main Northern railway line in two places…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cloudburst Near Tamworth Lines Washed Away Houses Flooded Tamworth
A cloudburst in the hills behind Tamworth this afternoon washed away the main. Northern railway line in two places…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blown Ashore Launch Swamped in Fierce Gale Sydney
A message from Darwin states that three man, returning from Melville Island, were blown ashore exhausted after their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vast Areas Flooded Washaways on Darwin Line. Anxiety for Mission Station. Darwin
Floods caused by the recent torrential rain inundated large areas of land at South Darwin to-day. The floods are believed to be the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storm at Singleton Singleton
Gutters were filled to Singleton this afternoon when a heavy shower of rain fell about 2 o’clock. Conditions point to further rain falling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce Storm Damage At Casino
Hundreds of acres of maize and other crops were laid waste by a storm which swept the Doubtful Creek, Senonville area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Severe Storm Lightning Damage ln Sydney SYDNEY
A severe stouts struck various city suburbs to-day, and did much damage. At Orchard Hills lightning struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hot Inland Storms in Coastal Districts Some Heavy Falls
During the past hours on extensive but weak form of tropical depression covered New South Wales almost generally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Large Hail Storm at Wingham WINGHAM
A thunderstorm, accompanied by a gale, passed over the district late yesterday afternoon. Hall larger than hen eggs fell over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Dead Gale in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)
Five people were killed, crop were ruined, and considerable damage done to property when one of the worst sales on record swept,…
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