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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

52 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3

Friday's Thunderstorm

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 August 1922 · page 2

Tho squally and wet weather which prevailed during last week culminated on Friday night in a thunderstorm, accompanied with torrential rain, the…

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Early Floods

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1922 · page 1

In the early part of the year 1857 owing to the long dry spell the Barnard and Little Manning Rivers were but a succession of water holes, while…

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Prohibition Scandal. (Published by Arrangement.) Floods of Liquor

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 6

The smuggling of liquor across the Canadian border, which has reached such a stage of perfection, it is said, that hundreds of gallons are now…

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The Weather. Rain and Heavy Gale

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1922 · page 4

AFTER threatening for several days, light rain commenced to fall in Port Macquarie dn Monday night last, and on Tuesday, morning rain of a very…

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Moon's Storm Warning

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1922 · page 7

Many people base their predictions of an approaching storm or a rainy spell on the halo which is to be seen, around the moon even on nights when…

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Telegrams. Heavy Thunderstorm. Sydney Deluged. House Struck by Lightning. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 5

Shortly before ten o'clock last night there was a heavy thunderstorm in the city, and it is estimated that over an inch of rain fell in the space of a few…

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A Hail Storm

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 November 1922 · page 4

Friday last a smashing hailstorm, taking a swathe about three chains wide, passed over Corangala and wrought serious damage to crops,…

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Dry Storm. Vivid Lightning

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 24 November 1922 · page 3

A thunderstorm broke over various parts of the district last Sunday afternoon, and it is some time since such severe lightning was witnessed…

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Fierce Storm at Werris Creek

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 4

A heavy storm of rain, accompanied by terrific wind, with thunder and lightning, did £15,000 of damage in Werris Creek. on Monday afternoon. An inch of rain fell…

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Cyclone at Hymagee

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 4

A TERRIFIC cyclone, accompanied by torrential rain, passed through Nymagee at 4 p.m. on Sunday. The newly erected Catholic Church was blown down, and the…

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Terrific storm at Broken Hill

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 4

A STORM of terrific violence occurred at Broken Hill on Sunday morning last. The storm was heralded by a bank of heavy clouds banging low in the south-west…

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Preparing for Floods

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 December 1922 · page 3

Says the "Armidale Chronicle" : A well-known resident of the Tilbuster district says the droughty conditions will soon give way to plenty of rain…

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